My layout is really too large for me to seriously expect to get to an operational stage in under 5 years. Currently it is comprised of the following operational sections:

1. South Denver and the Joint Line Loop
2. Denver Union Terminal
3. Denver North Yard
4. The Flatirons
5. Bond
6. Craig Branch
7. Coors Brewery Branch
8. Grand Junction Return Loop

With the exception of Craig Branch and Coors Brewery Branch the track from North Yard to Grand Junction has been laid and the main line wired. The South Denver track has also been laid and wired.

Which brings me to the Denver Union Terminal section which incorporates the East Denver Belt Line, the UP Pulman Shops and the UP Wynkoop Street trackage. All of the passenger tracks to the actual station was laid by my friend Rod Taylor while the layout was in Townsville (QLD) in the years leading up to 2019. However the C&S inter-modal freight yard, the East Denver Belt Line and the UP trackage were still to be laid as of a couple of months ago.

In October 2025 I was seriously ill and spent about three weeks in bed. During that time I spent a lot of time thinking about what I wanted to achieve from my life and my layout. I remembered that my original goal was to duplicate the 1947 passenger timetable as published in the 1981 book by Forrest & Albi “Denver’s Railroads” after which my layout is named.

I consequently decided that I would finish laying the track around the Denver Union Terminal with a view to achieving my original goal. By coincidence I discovered a company called Megapoints Controllers who are British manufacturers of model railway layout control systems.

Megapoints Controllers supply PCB’s (Printed Circuit Boards) to control LEDs, cables and layout controls such as turnouts, turnout position, push buttons, block occupancy DCC accessories and route control. The boards will enable me to set up routes though Denver Union Terminal for the different passenger trains to conform with the 1947 timetable.

As of the time of writing this blog the only major section still to be laid is the UP Pulman Shops and the UP Wynkoop Street trackage. I have even installed the Atlas Turntable for the CB&Q 23rd St Shops.

So I will shortly be onto the BUS wiring together with the wiring required to install the Megapoints Controllers circuit boards.