OK, my lame attempt at a Halloween-themed project and post. My layout mostly concentrates on the narrowgauge from Durango to Silverton and beyond. I treated Durango a lot like Alamosa was as a dual-gauge terminal. This allow for some mainline running on the standard gauge. Beside Durango, there is Hesperus, where the dual-gauge ends at the coal mines there. The standard gauge continues on toward Moab, passing through the mythical town of Dove Creek, Colorado.
With the narrowgauge in the mountains above it, Dove Creek is located on a deck below/ The layout is a no-lix, with Durango being the point where the upper and lower levels on the other side of the room meet at a peninsula in the middle. There is roughly 10" of clearance and I kept most of the track near the fascia. Not ideal, it’s operational trackage I’d otherwise not have and provides a place for some interesting industrial switching. Until now, it was rather underdeveloped except for being well lit and some incomplete false-front buildings on one industrial spur (fruit packing and canning house, ice house, wholesale grocer, Sears warehouse, and foundry.
The two biggest shippers had tracks, but everything else was left to the imagination. For the most part, there was a whole lot of uninspiring nothing.
I resolved to add some much needed acreage. While it suffers from a lack of vertical space, there’s still some interesting things to do. First, I needed to fill some of that gaping space. I cut some styrofoam, making sections that fit to cover various ares. Some smaller pieces I glued in place where access wa
