Welcome To New Miniature World of Trains™ Website

The Back Story

Since the non profit closed in 2015 and the my failure to locate funding and a location for a for profit version of MWOT™ , I have been working on my current personal layout / display the Denver, Front Range and Rocky Mountain Railroad. This HO scale display is located in a 1,200sf room above my detached garage / workshop.

Originally I was creating an N Scale version of Germany but gave that vision up in 2010 when European N scale prototype models became very to find. At this point I switched to US prototype in HO Scale and have been working on and off on this new layout / display since 2010. From 2010 to 2015 most of my time was spent on the successful MWOT™ location in downtown Greenville, SC until the lease ran out in 2015. There is a lot of back story here that I will save for another time.

My passion for model trains started in the early 1960's with a Lionel Train Set for Christmas. Then, over time, I discovered cars and girls and thus my passion switched. In 1982 in met my current wife in Denver, CO and we married in 1984. Our first Christmas as a married couple she gave me a small Bachmann N Scale starter set.

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That opened up my passion for model trains again but we lived in a small town house and a layout was not in the cards.

In September 2005 we moved to Houston, TX and I started a layout in our garage which turned out to be to dirty a location  and began to build a new layout in a extra bedroom. Well this display had to be town down as we moved yet again back to Denver, CO for the next 10 years.

I started several N scale layouts in a 600sf area but none of them where completed.

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In 2002 we decided to move to Greenville, SC to be closer to the beach and Disneyworld and the outbuilding for the new layouts /displays was started.

The N Scale Deutsche Railroad Intercity (DERRIC) was born in 2003 on the second floor of the outbuilding. I was a 1,200sf model railroading empire that featured the Rhine River and the German Alps.

This build was torn down due to the lack of product available from 2008 until 2010 when I decided to switch to HO scale and model Colorado. I was very familiar with that area after living there on and off for 15 years.

The new DFR&RMRR™ is on three levels featuring representations of Denver and Union Station, North Yard, 38th Ave Yard, Coors Brewing in Golden, the Moffat Road through the Moffat Tunnel to Winterpark, Dotsero, Glennwood Canyon, Royal Gorge and the Joint Line from Denver to Palmer Lake. 

It will be run via computer using Digitrax DCC.

MORE TO COME!