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Name: Denver & Rio Grande Western
Layout owner: David Powell
Scale: HO scale (1:87.1)
Size: 13′-0″ x 18′-6″
Prototype: Denver & Rio Grande Western
Locale: Colorado
Era: late 1950s to early 1960s
Style: walk-in
Mainline run: 65 feet
Minimum radius: 273⁄8″
Minimum turnout: Peco large radius
Maximum grade: 2.5 percent
Benchwork: open grid and L-girder
Height: 40-43″
Roadbed: Cork
Track: Peco code 100 flextrack
Scenery: Hydrocal or plaster cloth on screen
Backdrop: photos mounted on wall or tempered hardboard
Control: CVP Products Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in the Great Model Railroads 2020.
Once again a yard plan where the main acts as a yard lead. So if you are classifying cars, one mainline track is unusable for through trains. I would at least recommend swapping the crossovers at Colorado Springs and Miser so that a train can easily pass around a switcher by moving from the inner main to the outer and back in minimum distance. No lineside industries to service, so I would classify this design as a railfan type rather than a way freight type. Love the way it maximizes track radius on the peninsula.