John Vavra's HO scale layout uses modeler's license to combine the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe with the narrow gauge D&S. The locomotives are from Blackstone and the enginehouse is a Walthers kit. That 1994 setting meant my Colorado narrow gauge tourist line would be the Durango & Silverton, not the D&RGW (even though a lot of my narrow gauge equipment is still lettered for the earlier railroad). It's a cold, foggy morning in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado as two Durango & Silverton locomotives are readied for their daily round trips to Silverton. The beauty of artistic license When we returned from Colorado, I put pencil to paper and started designing a track plan that would incorporate both a standard gauge Santa Fe main line and a narrow gauge tourist railroad like the D&S. I quickly discovered that wasn't going to be easy. [Extracted from the article]
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