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RED OAK
LAYOUT
THE
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RED OAK
LAYOUT
Part 1: Our new N scale project layout
is built on a door
By Neil Besougloff •
Photos by Bill Zuback and Jim Forbes
Build the 3 x 7
F
ifty miles west of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy RR
division point of Creston, Iowa,
lies the town of Red Oak, the
inspiration for
Model Railroader’s
latest
project layout.
Named for the trees that line the Red
Oak Creek, the town came into being
with the arrival of the Burlington in
1869. Until 1901 the town was known as
Red Oak Junction, since the Burlington’s
branch to Lincoln, Neb., began in Red
Oak. Even today, the town recalls its
history each summer with a Junction
Days celebration.
board plus a 14-inch-tall styrene back-
drop divider. Around the edges of the
door we installed an
1
⁄
8
" tempered hard-
board (Masonite) fascia.
Track, scenery, structures, and trains
came next, and before long we had fin-
ished the model railroad you see in the
photographs on these pages and in vid-
eos on www.ModelRailroader.com.
This layout depicts the CB&Q main
line west from Chicago in the early 1960s
and includes one of the two branch lines
that ran north and southwest from Red
Oak. The layout is inspired by the town
of Red Oak (1960 population of 6,400),
but isn’t a true model of the town.
The Red Oak layout got its start
when I suggested to David Popp, the
producer of Model Railroader Video
Plus, that we needed a fresh idea for a
Model Railroader’s
2015 project layout.
I wanted a layout with staging, a branch
line, and a clear change of scenery from
previous magazine projects, such as the
Getting started
Built for a small space
Space is always an issue among our
readers when it comes to building a
model railroad, so this year we went
small with our project. The Red Oak
layout is N scale and built on a common
hollow-core household door laid flat to
make a tabletop. The door is 6'-8" tall and
3'-0" wide, so our layout’s footprint is,
rounded off, 3 x 7 feet.
We built legs with braces and a shelf
below the door. However, you don’t have
to build legs – the Red Oak layout can be
placed on a kitchen table or even a pair
of sawhorses.
On top of the door we added two
layers of extruded-foam insulation
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The Red Oak series
January:
Meet
Model Railroader’s
N scale Red Oak layout
February:
Benchwork, terrain
and track
March:
Scenery, roads,
and bridges
April:
Structures, details,
and rolling stock
JANUARY 2015
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Model Railroader
1.
Model Railroader’s
newest project
is the N scale Red Oak layout, built on
a common door. The layout models
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RR
in a small Iowa town in the 1960s.
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Scratchbuilt
bridge
High
Street
Curved
turnout
Branchline staging
(Griswold, Iowa)
Mutual Grain
Services
Mainline
staging
Houses
Curved
turnout
Scratchbuilt
bridge
Backdrop
High
Street
Curved
turnout
2
2
Branchline stagin
(Griswold, Iowa)
A
D
C
B
E
F
A
M
G
H
M
L
K
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O
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L
1
Pasture
Silo Barn
Red Oak
3
Eaton
farm
Curved
turnouts
Shed Farm
house
Producer’s Farm
Feed Co.
field
Red Oak
Station Branchline
Stockyard
6
4
▸▸
Trackplan structure list
N scale (1:160)
Layout size: 36"x 6'-8"
Scale of plan: 1" = 1'-0", 12" grid
Numbered arrows indicate photo locations
Illustration by Rick Johnson and Roen Kelly
Find more plans online in the
ModelRailroader.com Track Plan Database.
Red Oak
Tom’s Home
Curved General Store
Cooked Meals turnout
Pasture Silo Barn Eaton
5
Curved
7
farm
turnouts
3
Shed Farm
hous
N scale (1:160)
Layout size: 36"x 6'-8"
Scale of plan: 1" = 1'-0", 12" grid
Numbered arrows indicate photo locations
Illustration by Rick Johnson and Roen Kelly
Find more plans online in the
ModelRailroader.com Track Plan Database.
A
– Walthers no. 933-3230
co-op storage shed
B
– Rix Products no. 704
40-foot grain bins (3)
C
– American Model Builders
Laser Kit no. 651 Alton elevator
D
– Rix Products no. 708
Guthrie grain set
E
– Model Power no. 2554
Sinatra house
F
– Model Power no. 1558
Diggers house
G
– Branchline Trains Laser-Art
no. 889 grain elevator
H
– The N Scale Architect
no. 10703 stockyard
I
– Tichy Train Group no. 2601
signal tower
J
– Walthers no. 933-3803
Santa Fe-style depot
K
– Walthers no. 933-2615
Sunrise feed mill
L
– American Model Builders Laser
Kit no. 614 Midwest farm combo
M
– American Model Builders
Laser Kit no. 620 silo
N
– Walthers no. 933-3229
Jim’s repair shop
O
– Life-Like no. 433-7463
William’s country store
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2.
An overall view of the layout shows staging tracks behind the backdrop.
Sections of the scenery extend through the track openings in the backdrop to
help hide the cutouts when viewed from the front.
Model Railroader
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3.
One of the signature trains on the layout is Kato’s
Silver Streak Zephyr
set. Here it passes an American Model Builders
Laser Kit farm set. The field in the foreground is from Noch. The fences are from The N Scale Architect.
southern harbor layout the staff built last
year and the Virginian Ry. Appalachian
layout from 2012.
We tossed around a few options that
led David to the David P. Morgan
Memorial Library here in Kalmbach’s
offices (Morgan was
Trains
magazine’s
long-time editor). David came back from
the library with a concept for a Midwest-
ern railroad in the 1960s in the town of
Red Oak, including some photocopies of
book pages showing the Burlington in
that part of Iowa.
At about the same time, a new
Walthers N and Z scale catalog arrived
in our offices with a pair of Chinese Red
Burlington Electro-Motive Division
GP20s on its cover. That, and
the Kato EMD E5-led
Burlington
Zephyr
passenger train we had
previously reviewed,
sealed the deal for the CB&Q
as the prototype for this year’s
project layout.
Also on the layout is a Kato NW2,
and after we started building, Kato
released its F2 diesels painted in a gray
Burlington freight scheme. Our good
motive-power fortune continued when
Hornby announced the release of its
N scale General Electric U25C locomo-
tive, another 1960s-era diesel, in a
Burlington paint scheme.
4.
The layout is built on a common
interior door and uses a 14" tall piece
of
1
⁄
16
" styrene as a sky backdrop. The
fascia is
1
⁄
8
" hardboard painted black.
▸▸
The layout at a glance
Name:
Red Oak
Scale:
N (1:160)
Size:
3'-0" x 6'-8"
Prototype:
Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy RR
Locale:
Red Oak, Iowa
Era:
early 1960s
Style:
island, portable
Mainline run:
15 feet
Minimum radius:
13"
Minimum turnout:
Peco no. 6 medium
Maximum grade:
none
Height:
47"
Track:
Peco N scale code 55
turnouts and flextrack
Scenery:
extruded-foam insulation
board and Sculptamold
Control:
Digitrax DCC

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