Thank you, and we are currently hosted by the Forney Museum of Transportation located at 4303 Brighton Blvd, and we are open to the public every second and fourth Saturday each month.
Thankyou for the tour of your Rio Grande layout, this will help me in my modeling of the Moffat Road, I model the RG in a 13' x 13' Room on 4 different levels. from Denver upto Grand Junction I have Staging Yards at each end, West represents San Francisco via Salt Lake City & Ogden, & the East end represents Chicago via Kansas City. I have modeled the Denver Union station, North Yard, Big 10 Curves, Clay, Plainview, the Tunnel District, Tolland/East Portal, with a 4 turn Helix upto Winter Park, Tabernash, Bond, Glenwood Canyon, Dotsero (with a Staging yard representing Tennessee Pass, to Pueblo. Then Glenwood Springs & Grand Junction. I also model the Craig Branch in a smaller room! Cheers Rio Grande Steve.
Thanks for watching, and we're glad you enjoyed. Wishing you the all the best with your modeling of the Moffat Road, that's super cool that you're modeling the Moffat Road as well, and we're happy that we were able to provide help.
An interesting tour. I have a couple of questions: 1. What is the size of the layout? 2. What is the run length of the main line - from Denver Station back to Denver Station? Based on the run time of the Amtrak train, including the helix, I would assume that it is about 30 scale miles.
Our layout is roughly 20 feet wide by 120 feet long, and in terms of a full loop starting and ending at Denver Union Station, is somewhere roughly between 7 to 10 scale miles, as an n scale mile is 33 feet.
We do allow guests to operate trains on our layout, whether they ask if they can drive a train or we offer them the chance to drive a train on our two operation days each month. With that, guests are generally accompanied by a club member on the first couple of times around the layout, just to make sure nothing goes wrong.
@@capnsean520 You're most welcome, we're looking forward to seeing you when you get the opportunity to visit us. The two best ways to reach out to us are through Facebook (facebook.com/MoffatModelers ), and email (moffatmodelers@gmail.com) and as mentioned in the video, our operations days are on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month.
Fantastic layout and terrific narration! I'm in Australia and love the D&RGW, I also model in N Scale but on a much more modest 3.5 metre x 3.5 metre layout. I was in Denver in 2011 with my wife and young kids as part of a USA holiday during Amtrak's 40th anniversary and rode the California Zephyr between Chicago and Salt Lake City - Went to the Colorado Railroad Museum and loved every minute. I have The Genesis P42 Number 46 but it lacks the anniversary decals...Thanks for posting, I have subscribed to your channel...
Beautiful layout and presentation. Thank you.
You're most welcome, and we're glad you enjoyed.
Oh so much has changed since the 90's when I would go there and run trains with the group. I'll have to come back for a visit. Great work.
Thank you, and we are currently hosted by the Forney Museum of Transportation located at 4303 Brighton Blvd, and we are open to the public every second and fourth Saturday each month.
Wonderful layout. The workmanship outstanding.
Thank you, and we're glad you enjoyed.
Thankyou for the tour of your Rio Grande layout, this will help me in my modeling of the Moffat Road, I model the RG in a 13' x 13' Room on 4 different levels. from Denver upto Grand Junction I have Staging Yards at each end, West represents San Francisco via Salt Lake City & Ogden, & the East end represents Chicago via Kansas City. I have modeled the Denver Union station, North Yard, Big 10 Curves, Clay, Plainview, the Tunnel District, Tolland/East Portal, with a 4 turn Helix upto Winter Park, Tabernash, Bond, Glenwood Canyon, Dotsero (with a Staging yard representing Tennessee Pass, to Pueblo. Then Glenwood Springs & Grand Junction. I also model the Craig Branch in a smaller room!
Cheers Rio Grande Steve.
Thanks for watching, and we're glad you enjoyed. Wishing you the all the best with your modeling of the Moffat Road, that's super cool that you're modeling the Moffat Road as well, and we're happy that we were able to provide help.
The switches should be aligned for the main…brave words.
Wow, great layout and the narrative was superb
Indeed, and thanks for watching, we're glad you enjoyed.
Awesome layout. Thanks for the tour.
Indeed it is, and you're most welcome for the tour.
An interesting tour. I have a couple of questions:
1. What is the size of the layout?
2. What is the run length of the main line - from Denver Station back to Denver Station? Based on the run time of the Amtrak train, including the helix, I would assume that it is about 30 scale miles.
Our layout is roughly 20 feet wide by 120 feet long, and in terms of a full loop starting and ending at Denver Union Station, is somewhere roughly between 7 to 10 scale miles, as an n scale mile is 33 feet.
Do you allow guest operators for those that may want to visit?
We do allow guests to operate trains on our layout, whether they ask if they can drive a train or we offer them the chance to drive a train on our two operation days each month. With that, guests are generally accompanied by a club member on the first couple of times around the layout, just to make sure nothing goes wrong.
@@MoffatModelers awesome! Thanks for the reply. I’ll reach out to y’all if we come up to visit sometime. Again, thank you for the reply.
@@capnsean520 You're most welcome, we're looking forward to seeing you when you get the opportunity to visit us. The two best ways to reach out to us are through Facebook (facebook.com/MoffatModelers ), and email (moffatmodelers@gmail.com) and as mentioned in the video, our operations days are on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month.
Where are you guys located?
We are hosted by the Forney Museum of Transportation located at 4303 Brighton Blvd in Denver, Colorado.
It would be nice if you would indicate your guage your modeling. Some people want to know before hand!
The gauge we model in is N scale, which was mentioned at the 0:16 mark.
Fantastic layout and terrific narration! I'm in Australia and love the D&RGW, I also model in N Scale but on a much more modest 3.5 metre x 3.5 metre layout. I was in Denver in 2011 with my wife and young kids as part of a USA holiday during Amtrak's 40th anniversary and rode the California Zephyr between Chicago and Salt Lake City - Went to the Colorado Railroad Museum and loved every minute. I have The Genesis P42 Number 46 but it lacks the anniversary decals...Thanks for posting, I have subscribed to your channel...
That is super cool, thanks for watching, and we're glad you enjoyed.