I'm alive, the railroad is alive, and there may be more posts this year?! :)
A few operating sessions per year since the last post, but not much on the layout itself is new. 14th Street switching tracks have been reshuffled to allow for a track to get to the engine house (see below) and US Testing.
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| New non-operable track to the engine house. Perhaps a curved crossing could be scratch built to make it a working piece of track. The 14th street trackage is actually supposed to be behind the engine house, but that is out of reach. Compromise is the uncomfortable, but necessary at times. |
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| Reconfigured 14th street track. from top right to left, the engine house, Kelly Springfield Tire/Xzit/National Cleanser, then finally Continental Baking (Hostess Twinkies) All buildings are very close to actual prototype size gotten from historical maps and Google maps measurements. |
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| US Testing is almost in the correct orientation. It should be perpendicular to the yard, but there isn't enough room to curve the track properly. More compromise *sigh*, but, it's very, very close... |
Recent activity is turning towards sketch buildings to ensure the track alignments are good. These will also provide good templates for final models.
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| Engine house with brakemen waiting for assignments. The shack is the scale house. |
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| Engine house (left) and (right) Xzit/Kelly Springfield Tire/National Cleanser |
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| Kelly Springfield Tire/National Cleanser (left) and Continental Baking (Hostess Twinkies) (right) |
Thanks for coming back!
ReplyDeleteWhat did U.S. Testing get? The HBS employee I knew (Bill Billings) once told me that shipments of stuff to be tested were very sporadic - like 4-5 times a year.
Mattresses, lumber, maybe equipment? They used their loading dock to test power tools.
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