Name: Iron Gorge Subdivision
Layout owner: Bob Hamm
Scale: HOn3 (HO scale, 3-foot gauge)
Size: 28 x 45 feet
Prototype: Denver & Rio Grande Western and Rio Grande Southern
Locale: Durango to Montrose, Colo.
Era: 1938 to 1942
Style: multilevel walk-in
Mainline run: 400 feet
Minimum radius: 22″
Minimum turnout: no. 4
Maximum grade: 3 percent
Benchwork: L-girder and open-grid
Height: 36″ to 66″
Roadbed: Homasote and cork
Track: handlaid and flextrack, code 70
Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board and Hydrocal over cardboard lattice or chicken wire
Backdrop: photos
Control: CVP Digital Command Control
This track plan originally appeared in the September 2017 Model Railroader. Click on the link to download a PDF copy of this track plan.
