Getting Started In Proto 87 Modelling.pdf

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Getting started in
Proto:87 modeling
A small layout you can build
Roque Bluffs,
a Maine
Planning a “no room
for a layout” layout
By Iain Rice
Photos by the author
T
he various M
ODEL
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AILROADER
project layouts built over the years
have assumed many shapes and
sizes, and several have introduced new
concepts and techniques. This project
layout is one of the smallest yet, and
the first to be conceived and executed
outside the United States.
Those of us living outside the U. S.
have had to become adept at squeezing
a lot of visual and operational interest
into very small layouts. Many of our
layouts are also portable and make use
of lightweight construction materials.
These are all concepts relevant to a
growing number of U. S. modelers.
Our Roque Bluffs (pronounced
“rock bluffs”) project layout has a U. S.
setting but explores many European
layout ideas, including the use of
Proto:87 (P:87) HO track and wheel
standards that are closer to actual 1:87
scale prototype dimensions. P:87 is also
similar to the British Protofour system.
Commercial P:87 products, notably
NorthWest Short Line’s superb wheels,
are now widely available, and most
aspects of fine-scale modeling can be

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