Name: Rio Grande Southern
Layout designer: Steve Harris
Scale: HOn3 (1:87.1 proportion, three-foot gauge)
Size: 9 x 25 feet
Prototype: Rio Grande Southern
Locale: southwestern Colorado
Era: around 1939
Style: double deck with helix, semi-mushroom peninsula
Mainline run: 158 feet (excluding helix)
Minimum radius: 18″
Minimum turnout: no. 4
Layout designer: Steve Harris
Scale: HOn3 (1:87.1 proportion, three-foot gauge)
Size: 9 x 25 feet
Prototype: Rio Grande Southern
Locale: southwestern Colorado
Era: around 1939
Style: double deck with helix, semi-mushroom peninsula
Mainline run: 158 feet (excluding helix)
Minimum radius: 18″
Minimum turnout: no. 4
Originally appeared in the November 2004 issue of Model Railroader.
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This would be my future layout plan but i wouold base it on UP, CN, NS, or BN it would be an amzing layout especialy because my layout is a solid layout you cant walk in the middle of it it would have been nice to do a walk around
I like this layout because its multi level and is i were to have done that my layout would be twice the size/more track to run trains. I also love the rio grande trains and the paint sceme.
Interesting. I plan to build a multilevel railroad that will be twice as wide in standard gauge. this is a good plan.
Thanks