Colorado Midland Route Railway tour (Standard Gauge) O Gauge Part 4 of 5

Colorado Midland Route Railway is owned and operated by the Denver Society of Model Railroaders est. 1933

This engineer view video was taken about 15 years ago by member Jim Brandenburg for the DSMR. A standard gauge track tour of the original layout built from 1935 to 1980. Since this video was taken an additional actual 1/2 mile of track has been completed through the Mine and Leadville. See the remaining part to this video.

The tour continues through the original layout built between 1935 and 1980. We continue westbound on the Elliot Long Bridge while the eastbound California Zephyr passes. Now passing Gorge Siding we approach the water stop at Gorge. Passing Gorge we enter turn 1 of the 1.8% grade to the Summit of the mountains on Horan Pass. We cross Horan Trestle and reach the highest point on the standard gauge at 12' from the floor. Now downgrade where trains actually bunch up and stretch out on our line we a approach Big Ten curve and drop into Engleman where we wait on the main for an oncoming logging train.

The Colorado Midland Route Railway is the oldest O scale 2 rail layout in the USA. It is also one of the largest layouts in the world. We encompass a 7200 square foot finished scenic layout in a 10,000 square foot room in the basement of Denver Union Station. The layouts origins date from 1935. Today, over 76 years later the layout has undergone major electrical improvements such as DCC and refinements and additions. For more information go to our website: http://denveroscaleclub.org

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[aocruiser]

Awesome video!

[formerparatrooper]

Great stuff here. I remember the line well when we visited. Thanks for posting.