How To Large Scale Layouts The D&R Railroad

The D&R Railroad

By Angela Cotey | August 9, 2007

| Last updated on January 20, 2021

Download a PDF of this garden railroad featuring the Chama branch of the D&RGW Railroad

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The railway at a glance

Name: D & R Railroad
Size of Railroad: 60′ x 150′
Scale: 1:20.3
Gauge: 45mm (Nº 1)
Era: 1900s-1940s
Theme: Chama branch of the D&RGW Railroad
Age: 4 years
Motive power: Battery-powered locomotives
Length of mainline: 1,000′
Maximum Gradient: 3%
Type of track: Aristo-Craft brass, code-332 flex track; Parker Company turnouts
Minimum Radius: 10′
Structures: Mostly scratchbuilt, with a few Pola buildings
Control system: CVT Airwire 900 R/C System; Phoenix 2K2 sound system

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