5: Aspens glow in the afternoon sun near Red Cliff.
Locos 3131 and 3141, train in tow, emerge from the
Pando tunnel, almost to Mitchell and the summit.
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didn't have many online industries, it was mostly bridge traffic. So
I used modelers license to add switching opportunities.
So while there are many things that are prototypical, or close
to it on my layout, there are also areas that are totally free-
lanced because I wanted a lot of industries to switch.
MRH:
Your model of Mitchell is quite striking. I was watching
Denver & Rio Grande on NetFlix. It dramatizes building the rail-
road through the Royal Gorge. In one scene, a passenger train
raced through a place that looked just like this. How prototypi-
cal is Mitchell on your layout?
Rob:
Both my model and the prototype have an S-curve and
some marshy areas high up in the mountains, but that’s about
as similar as they get. It would probably take about my whole
train room to model Mitchell because the S curves were
