Hi William

Perhaps this may help in preparing a schematic of your layout.  This is the information board at the viewpoint overlooking the railway.

There is also an N gauge layout in the Yoho National Park visitor centre just off the Trans-Canada highway at Field.  Google Streetview will give you the perspectives you need for the surrounding scenery.

Finally - if you ever do get the opportunity - GO!

Best wishes.

Hi William,

I have some photos of Cathedral and some others of near there that I got from the a balcony on the Rocky Mountaineer. The photos do show some of the rockfall protection.

I don't think I've got much on the actual spiral tunnels. We were on top of them before I realised they were coming. We got pulled up outside Field. I have some distant shots of the town and highway. 

Let me know if you need them and I'll post them here, 

Sounds like a cool idea! I saw the pass and tunnels in early July of 2019. It's hard to capture the flavor of the area unless you go with N scale. A visit is also mandatory. Banff, Jasper, and Yoho have the best mountain scenery on the continent in my opinion.

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That park layout is quite amazing.  You really feel you are looking across a real valley in miniature.   One of the most effective scenery jobs I've ever seen in any scale.

The second picture is enormously helpful.  Having never been there the model of the top of the pass is a new perspective I need to address.  Option 1 diagram allows for more proper tunnel arrangement, especially at the top, but limited space for the lines crossing to/between the two.  Garage possibility gives more spacing but is at least a bit more intrusive into the room, and makes the open ended perspective from above pix more difficult. Much thanks for the help.

Will do on request to request.  The snow shed is a must include item and I have nothing of the 50 meter tunnel.

Working on how to do the Nose Tunnel in the best fashion.  Option 1 presents it in the wrong perspective I believe.

Love the photos...especially the one with the pickup truck waiting on a train!

Stumbled on this thread today...

I actually built this N scale layout (The Field display model in N scale)....  but it's older "sibling" I actually did in HO scale years prior...  Much larger mind you, 42 x 24 to be exact... with a few extras... Running water, full signal logic, 30,000 plus trees, and sound that was recorded from the area and matched as the trains travel through.

We toured the HO layout to many shows, although modular, it was quite cumbersome. It was worth it however, as it made a lasting impression on many.. and was what piqued the interest of the Federal Parks people and Friends of Yoho Society to commission the build of the N scale version.

I ran across some other information yesterday that the HO layout is in storage. Is this true?

I’m curious for a bunch of reasons and wonder if there is a track plan I might look at showing the overall layout, shape and module dimensions, etc.