55”

Grain storage

Elevator

(Ramp at hinge)

Conveyor bridge

Warehouse

General Mills
Upper level cereal plant

Mill, packing, and

shipping (rail)

Calumet &
South Chicago RR
HO scale (1:87.1)
Layout size: 12'-0"x 14'-6"
Scale of plan: 1⁄2" = 1'-0", 12" grid
Numbered arrows indicate photo locations
Illustration by Rick Johnson
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New addition
warehouse and
shipping (truck)
Main line appears
to diverge from industry

Backdrop
Tower Prairie
Backdrop 24 degree Yard
North Yard South Yard Engine servicing crossing office Underpass
to here
59”

59”

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Foam bumpers

Desk

Rolling 6-drawer 521⁄2”

paperwork holder

Lower level

Storage tracks

Calumet &
South Chicago RR
HO scale (1:87.1)
Layout size: 12'-0"x 14'-6"
Scale of plan: 1⁄2" = 1'-0", 12" grid
Numbered arrows indicate photo locations
Illustration by Rick Johnson
Find more plans online in the
ModelRailroader.com Track Plan Database.

Ramp

Runaround track

Walthers code 83
left-hand
Foam bumpers Staging yard File cabinet underneath Runaround track curved turnout

521⁄2”
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yard

Steel coils in Ingot stripper,

(rail and truck) soaking pits,
and blooming mill
Water tank 200-foot stack
Shears and presses
(scrap out)
Teaming track
Auto parts (ingots out)
stamping plant
Dust
collection

Steel works
Presses
(parts out)
Basic oxygen
furnace
In-house scrap
delivery (truck)

End of 8-foot ramp

Offices
Lime and additive
End of ramp dump house
Stone lot
Paved lot
Main line appears to Limestone pile
diverge from plant Conveyor
transport
Trees, bushes,
and structures Limestone pile,
act as view block gravel trucks, and
structures act
as view block

Tower Backdrop Tower Backdrop

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Steel works

Visible track
begins here

Hidden roadbed
Hidden ramp Ford stamping plant
Hinge