Platte Valley & Western Model Railroad Club Announces Holiday Open House Schedule –
Denver, Colorado, October 4, 2011 - The Platte Valley & Western Model Railroad Club
(www.PVWRR.org) located in the basement of Denver’s Union Station at 17th Street & Wynkoop in the
LoDo section of downtown Denver announced it’s 2011 Holiday Operations Schedule today.
The club will be open and trains will be running on the last Friday of each month for the regularly scheduled monthly open houses on October 28th, November 25th (in conjunction with the Grand Illumination of Union Station), December 30th from 7pm to 9pm. Additionally, the club will be open with trains running for a special Holiday Open House on Saturday, December 17th from 9am to 4pm.
Even as work continues on the Denver Union Station Project, the club continues to have it’s doors open to the public each Friday night from 7pm to 9pm MT. On some Friday nights, trains may not be running due to planned work projects on parts the layout. The members of the PV&W are always happy to welcome members of the public down to the layout and answer questions related to the layout and model railroading.
Schedule updates and building access changes are posted on the club’s website (www.PVWRR.org) and the club’s Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/pvwrr) as the club is made aware of them.
The PV&W is located in a room that was used in the early 1900s as the historic station’s jail and has been remodeled to house two HO scale model railroads depicting Rocky Mountain railroading in the 1950s. The Platte Valley & Western Railroad’s Rocky Mountain Division (Route of the Flying Buffalo) spans more than 1000 feet of mainline track traveling thru eight communities in the Rocky Mountains from the City of Platte to Ogden, Utah. The Clear Creek & San Juan Railroad is the PV&W’s narrow gauge counterpart and serves four Rocky Mountain communities and illus