Model Railroading > Passing Glorieta

A westbound passing Glorieta on Mike Tomei’s HO scale ATSF Albuquerque Sub during an NMRA Operations Session yesterday in Lawrence, KS.  Mike hosted 5 operation sessions on his layout, which models the ATSF between La Junta, CO and Belen, NM in 1992.  

ATSF passing Glorieta

oops, no photo attached

Now I realize you have to click on the separate sentence:  ATSF passing glorieta    That takes you to the photo.  Sorry about that.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/12/18 14:09 by boejoe.

The track is way to straight there. When I went thru Glorieta on the Chief this spring I remember it being in the middle of a near hairpin turn.

DevalDragon Wrote:
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> The track is way to straight there. When I went
> thru Glorieta on the Chief this spring I remember
> it being in the middle of a near hairpin turn.

Nit pick.  In our hobby some (a lot) compromise is required.  You are correct that the station/post office is on the inside of the curve that goes down the 3% grade of the pass.

I attended one of those five sessions and had a great time.  Mike has a nice layout and it operated well....

John Parker
Longmont, CO
BNSF Fall River Division

santafedan Wrote:
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> DevalDragon Wrote:
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> -----
> > The track is way to straight there. When I went
> > thru Glorieta on the Chief this spring I
> remember
> > it being in the middle of a near hairpin turn.
>
> Nit pick.  In our hobby some (a lot) compromise
> is required.  You are correct that the
> station/post office is on the inside of the curve
> that goes down the 3% grade of the pass.

It is but unusual. Every time I've worked with layout design it was much harder to plan what to put in the curve sections because everything lends itself to the straight sections.