05-16-2011, 05:43 PM
nachoman Wrote:I wonder if anyone ever attempted to make their layout a scale model of the Golden museum. Looking at it in google earth, it would scale to about an 8x11 HO scale layout. A continuous loop in that case would be prototypical.
Exactly, with a connecting track out to the real world to allow stuff to be moved in or out as needed. There is even an outdoor model train layout inside the Golden RR Museum!
Railroads that cover considerable distance, such as the Cumbres and Toltec and the Durango and Silverton, are cases in point for tourist railroads that would make up an entire layout.