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Litziruti By Gerald Burnett.
I have wanted to have a model railway ever since my father dismantled a Tri-ang set that was in my bedroom in about 1958. I finally got around to doing something about it in 2019 with a ‘proof of concept’ build using OO Scale Peco track and a couple of Bachman tanks.
That went well so the next stage was to build an end-to-end diorama of a country station which could be 1960 Southern or Eastern depending upon the rolling stock deployed.
Early into that build my head was turned by travelling on the Rhaetian Bahn (RhB) in South Eastern Switzerland and seeing the operational Neuberg 1913 and the under construction Neuberg 2013.
During the 2020 lockdown the diorama idea was shelved and Litziruti was constructed. Litziruti is an RhB station on the Chur to Arosa route so I used a Faller model of that. The track layout is based upon another RhB location, Ospizio Bernina, which is the highest adhesion station in Europe at 7403 feet.
There is a 3 road fiddle yard behind the backscene and I can run modern electric trains, including the Bernina Express, as well as heritage
formations such as that which runs in summer months between Davos and Filisur behind a Krokodil.
Scale is HO but the track is HOm metre gauge. Train control is digital using a very simple Gaugemaster Prodigy Express system. Points are analogue controlled by a Gaugemaster PC01 which is capable of controlling 18 points from a single console. Rolling stock is Bemo who make beautifully detailed and increasingly sophisticated models.
I would like to source a steam loco in the near future so that my heritage trains can be steam hauled.
