Silver San Juan
The Silver San Juan is a blog about a Sn3 layout of the Rio Grande Southern. The layout will focus on the First District from Ridgway to Rico including the Telluride Branch.
Saturday, January 28, 2017
New Rio Grande Southern Project Layout
For many years I have wanted to work in Sn3. This goes back to my youth when the first basement filling layout I saw was a D&RGW narrow gauge layout was in S Scale. The owner of this layout made the remark that the advantage of Sn3 was the locomotives were about the same size as HO standard gauge and the buildings were just a little bigger than HO but the detail was much better while being able to fit much more into a space than O Scale. This was more than 40 years ago and I still find this truth tugging at me. As narrow gauge is highly appealing to me and readily available in S Scale if one is willing to be patient I have decided to put all other projects on hold and focus on an Rio Grande Southern layout in Sn3. The layout will follow a modified dominoes approach popularized by David Barrow which is combined with Tony Koester's LDE concept and somewhat similar to the TOMA idea now being popularized by MRH founder Joe Fugate.
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