Bob, excellent article and plan.  The timing of the helix information is very pertinent to my own planning and you have provided me with some good ideas for my own railroad.  It was a pleasure to meet you at the CSS09 dinner and to see your happy smiling face here in MRHM.

Excellent subject and terrific article!  Besides being a fan of desert railroading, I'm a geologist who did field work in southern Nevada some years back.  Saw a lot of the Caliente Subdivision, and I also remember sitting in the old Moapa Bar a few times (I believe it's in ruins now) while UP trains rumbled by right out front.

Steve Semken

I'm a Mexican HO scale modeller in sunnyside but polluted Mexico City. Muchas gracias for the terrific track plan shown on the latest issue of MRH, I definitely would like to see more of these type of articles in the future.

I have a spare bedroom barely 12 x 12 to fit my model trains. Until now I thought it was rather small & has restricted space to model something else than a branchline (I even considered selling my HO scale stuff & start buying N scale items), but after reading Bob´s article I realised that I have the perfect space for long class one trains, six axle Diesels included.

Once again many thanks for a superb article.

Well, Guadalupe. I have the same size of room that I am using for my layout room and I went bigger. From HO to O/On30. I have not regretted it. Perfect size.