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Hills Country

This is a page about the Colchester & District Model Railway Club layout "Hills Country"

The layout is some 21' by 10' in N Gauge and is set somewhere in eastern Colorado. It is in a number of ways a first for the club, in that nothing quite like has been tried before.
The main intention was to prove just what can be done with American N gauge on British exhibition
layout if you are willing to try!

The main new ideas as far as the club has been concerned are as follows:

- The use of an open-top baseboard design, using 4mm ply girders
- A larger scenic area interms of non railway land than ever before, the scenic depth is some 4'6"
- The construction of some large mountains, using rock castings and the American "Zip-texturing"
  technique
- The possibility of the use of DCC
- A minimum train of some 15 cars, a Loco and a Caboose - some 6' long
- Both a large area of countryside and a town ( Harriman ) with an locomotive depot

The track plan

The two photos below show the layout in an early phase of construction

A few views of the now sceniced "country end" of the layout, it is still awaiting trees...

A visiting PRR loco on the High Bridge

The layout at the Colchester & District Open Day in April 2002, we have completed the town and added several hundred trees since!

A few views of the town centre in August 2002

Front and back views of the motive power depot

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3 wise men?

The photos below were taken at the 2005 Ilford Model Railway Exhibition