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D&RGW in San Luis Valley by Roland Levin, Stockholm Sweden |
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This is my plans to model the railroad in the San Luis Valley. It will be a two level HO-layout with a helix. I'm going to use Ship-It to generate the traffic. The PUAMM will leave the staging yard representing Pueblo and arrive in Alamosa yard. Where the train is split up into three parts. One local for Antonito, one local for South Fork and one part for local switching in Alamosa. During some sessions will the La Veta turn head back to Walsenburg (staging) with cars that have been left in Alamosa from the day before. When the locals arrive back in Alamosa the AMPUM will begin the trip back to Pueblo. My two narrow gauge steamers takes care of the narrow gauge trains to and from Chama (staging). Sometimes they will bring standard gauge cars to Antonito with the help of dual gauge coppler cars. Lower
level The staging yard in the middle of the room represents both locations west of Alamosa; La Veta,Walsenburg and Pueblo and locatipns east/south of Alamosa; La Jara, Bountiful, Antonito and Chama. In the right part of the drawing is the helix up to the upper level. |
![]() Red track is dual gauge, black track is standard gauge. |
Upper
level The upper level represents the branch to South Fork with models of the scrap yard and grain bins in Zinser, the wye in Sugar Junction, the yard and industries in Monte Vista and the yard and lumber mill in South Fork. From Sugar Junction will the San Luis Central RR take of to Center with grain bins and bins and warehouses. South Fork is to the left of the backdrop on the peninsula above the staging yard and Center is on the right side of the backdrop Photos
New
plans to extend the layout Photo
collection over different Rio Grande freight car models. |
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The track plans where originally made in the demo version of XTrkCad. The program is now avaliable for free. I have transferred the track plans in to Corel Draw and added color and some other features to make them easier to follow.
Updated 2018-02-11