M
y whole adventure started with Joe Fugate
requesting a click and spin of a locomotive. Well, I
took it upon myself to build an operating scene of
the Dallas Divide for some beauty shot stills and video.
It started as a dog-bone return loop, simply to eliminate
a second person on the throttle, as the train could simply
make its circle between takes. A few more trips to Micro
Engineering and 20 more feet of track later, I was able to
incorporate a turntable, a three-track yard, a mainline pass-
ing siding, and two industrial spur tracks for what became
an operating layout of 9 by 2 ½ feet.
During the whole build-up process I documented the con-
struction of the mountains, and the run by scene inspired
by a photograph on page 89 of Josie Moore Crum's “The Rio
Grande Southern Story, Vol. 1.” Lining the train up on the
What’s neat column - 2
MRH-Mar 2013
