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Hello Erik ...1924 ? Wow that is very early ...for O scale ...are there any photos of the original layout ?

Thank you

Cheers Carey

I've never seen any even though ChipR and I tried to locate someone with anything. The Judge John Horan who joined before World War 2 had a lot of early documentation on the layout had only hand written notes about the layout which was largely sectional of some kind and portions of it were used in the new layout as Springs and the round house and coaling tower which was made 1925-26 and dated on the bottom. That layout was on the 2nd floor Mezzanine which now the "Cooper Lounge" is above the original ticket offices on the main floor of Denver Union Station.

In 1933 the Platte flooded over and left a foot of river mud in what was the REA records storage area below the main floor. DUS offered the space to the club if they cleaned it up. By 1935 they were building the new layout. We were donated a trolley set up by a longtime Union Station affecinado through Dana Crawford the developer of the new hotel that claimed it was part of the mezzanine layout we could never confirm this but it was certainly early stuff. Rail was possibly Märklin that was 2 railed and wired from below. No power supply so we never knew anything about that. The new layout power supply was a custom built thing with huge heat sinks and it buzze sounded like a electric trimmer. It was obviously due for replacement in 2010s. I'll see if I can find some photos to share.



Keep up the good work.

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