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The Conrail
layout of Ken McCorry is so big it takes a train 45 minutes
to run its full length. The mainline of 25 scale miles occupies
its own 3300 square foot barn. The steel mill takes up 300 square
feet. With 5 decks the railroad is big. The bottom two decks
represent staging. The top deck is a branchline, and the middle
two decks are the visible parts of the railroad.
Ken started
building the HO layout in 1992. In 1996 he increased the size
of his custom-built barn. He says this is the final addition
and building this layout, that some have called the largest
home layout in the world, has been a great deal of fun.
The layout follows the route of the old Pennsylvania Railroad
from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Buffalo, New York in 1980 and
that means helpers on the 3% grade to Keating Summit.
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