Mid-Size Track Plans for Realistic Layouts

Bernard Kempinski is a freelance writer who has contributed more than 40 magazine articles and 20 lectures on model railroading, many of them on steel mills. His N scale Alkem Steel mill model won best-in-show award at the Madison, Wis., NMRA show in 1997. He also consults on layout design and has been commissioned to build models on subjects as large as a 1950s steel mill and a paper mill, both featured in the Walthers catalog. He is the proprietor of Alkem Scale Models.  Bernard, a former Army Captain, is an analyst for the Institute for Defense Analysis in Alexandria, Va.

Introduction	4 

CHAPTER 1
White Pass & Yukon	6

CHAPTER 2
Western Maryland’s Thomas Subdivision	16

CHAPTER 3
Norfolk Southern’s Shirley Industrial Park	24

CHAPTER 4
Chesapeake & Ohio’s Chicago Division	34

CHAPTER 5
Denver & Rio Grande Western’s Craig Branch	48

CHAPTER 6
Erie/LTV Mining Railroad	58

CHAPTER 7
Utah Railway	66

CHAPTER 8
New York City’s Bush Terminal	78

CHAPTER 9
U.S. Military Railroad City Point and Army Line	88

CHAPTER 10
Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway	102