GRAND VALLEY MODEL RAILROAD CLUB

Please bear with us as we upgrade this site
Grand Junction, Colorado was a stop on the historic mainline of the                        Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. (D&RGW)
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- ABOUT OUR THE CLUB -

We are located at:

" CROSS ORCHARDS LIVING HISTORY FARM"

3073 F Road, Grand Junction,Colorado

Map

Cross Orchards is part of

The Museum of Western Colorado.

     OUR MAILING ADDRESS

           GRAND VALLEY MODEL RAILROAD CLUB             P.O. Box 4101 Grand Junction, CO 81502 ~

                   The Club was formed in 1987.                   We are a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization,    registered with the IRS and the State of Colorado.

Our members, along with volunteers and businesses of the community built our thirty by sixty foot building at Cross Orchards in 2000.
CLUB ACTIVITIES
- HOURS WE ARE OPEN -
Our business meetings are held at Cross Orchards at 7:00 PM the second Monday of each month           EXCEPT December.
Work Night - is every Tuesday at 7:00 PM, and Work Day is the fourth Saturday of each month at 9:00 AM. All activities are at our Cross Orchards building.
VISITORS are always welcome

OUR OPEN HOURS (when we are operating for public viewing)- are NOT the same as those of Cross Orchards. We are usually open when they have SPECIAL OCCASIONS.

GRAND JUNCTION is located 32 mile east of the Utah Colorado state line on Interstate 70.
We are on what was the the mainline of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW). It's mainline ran from the Mile High City of Denver, Colorado to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Colorado and Grand Junction have a long history in railroading, starting in the late1800s with the Narrow Gauge Railroads. Transcontinental railroads of        today serving Grand Junction are, the Union Pacific, Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Amtrak.
Many remnants of the early day Railroads in Colorado are still in operation today as tourist lines. There are listed under the "NAVIGATION" listings.
      Check out our videos onYouTube
http://youtu.be/N0bzJOvaTqI
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CLICK on the picture to enlarge it.

Below is a photo of our building at Cross Orchards and of Mt. Garfield.

CONSTRUCTION

Work continues on our layout. About 90% of our under the table work is complete as is about 80% of the track work.

We have started on our scenery building. Mt. Garfield, a prominent landmark in the valley was named after President Garfield. It is in the Bookcliff Range of the Colorado Rockies. Since it is so visible ( just a few hundred feet north of I-70), we thought it only fitting that it be a part of our layout. Below is a photo of the Mt. Garfield on our layout.

Below are four photos of different scenes on our layout.

Congratulations to -

THE MODEL RAILROADERS OF THE GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO AREA .
We have six modelers in the Grand Valley who have a photo of their home layout ( shown on the right ) featured in the 2011 Walthers HO Reference Book. Some photos are of Club member home layouts and some are of other area home layouts.

Thanks Walthers for selecting photographs of Model Railroader's
in the Grand Junction area.

If you have the Walthers 2011 HO Reference Book, check them out.

The five photos below were taken by G. W. Allen of Grand Junction.