Central Indiana Division - Midwest Region - NMRA

Central Indiana Layouts...

The Colorado & Wyoming Railway was built for the expressed interest of The Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. The middle division was where the steel was produced and the Wyoming division and the southern Colorado division provided the coal and coke for the process. Stan's HO layout is based upon the southern division in the early fall of 1950. The coal deposits were "drying up" and the rail traffic was dwindling.

The layout represents the first 18 miles of the 26 miles of the southern division of the Colorado & Wyoming Railway originating at Trinidad, Colorado and traversing west. It connected to the ATSF in Jansen, Colorado. The layout is double decked in a bedroom and the two levels are connected by an unfolded helix in another bedroom. The railroad is point to point, with 5 track yards at either end. The trackage is 100% completed and the scenery is 30% completed (excluding small details).

The railroad is designed so that each town is basically in a shadow box of it's own and so an operator's attention is not distracted by other operators or tracks. The major industries are 2 coal tipples, 2 coke oven areas and a major cattle-loading area. There is also a minor logging industry, a limestone quarry; both of which mainly support the coal/coke/steel industry. The railroad is DCC controlled.

2-8-0's are used for road engines and a VO-1000 diesel and a GP-7 diesel are used in the yards. The coal/coke traffic is controlled by the 'coke manager', but other traffic is generated by Ship-It software. He has tried to represent the railroad as closely as he can, but there Was only one book written about this railroad.

Stan is a member of the Union Station Railroad Association group.