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from the perspective of Ron Simpson, CRD model railroad builder
 
 
 
  Three Layout Design Element Proposals for the Phase III KMR section:  
. By January 2008 I had drawn up three possible track schemes for the KMR line. The first two incorporated the Cliff Creek and Coal Creek short lines that once operated down river on the Yukon from Dawson City. One of them also allowed room for the settlement of Forty Mile.

The other version emphasizes the KMR with a railroad extension to the Bear Creek facility where four identical Porters were in use one year.

Each one of these proposals utilizes the  LDE or Layout Design Element approach, which  is to take a stretch of real railroad somewhere and shrink it down and compress it to fit on the layout.  I have taken the historic KMR and attempted to do just that.

Meanwhile I am  proceeding with the Sulphur Springs Wye segment of the KMR Phase III section this season.

 
  
 
  Phase III map 2    
KMR Proposals One and Two emphasize the Yukon River and two short lines downriver in the direction of Alaska. When I drew up these plans in 2007-08 I did not envision that the Phase II segment (ALCANEX) would ever connect with the Phase III segment (KMR) as will now be the case.  That was probably because the ALCANEX line ran 7 feet above the ground.  There was no lower level back then that would make it possible to build such a connection without using a very large amount of track.  Thus the drawings above show a White Pass-Yukon Railway Extension in red which is nothing more than a circle. 

 

Phase III map 1
KMR Proposal Three UPDATED: Includes only the KMR with an extension to the Bear Creek Yukon Gold Company Camp.  This 2008 proposal is the one which most closely approximates current plans for extension of the existing model railroad line.  The most recent revision of plans calls for a much larger wye at Sulphur Springs than originally contemplated because this wye will serve as the end-point and turn-around for the mainline ALCANEX Railway system.  The original plans only contemplated a short-line narrow gauge railway pulling a limited number of short cars. This was because it was not contemplated at that time that the mainline would ultimately connect to the narrow gauge short line as will now be the case.    

 

 

 
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