tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15408654374708821942024-02-19T04:36:48.841-08:00The Mighty Diesel WhineModel and Prototype Railroading - Atlantic Canada StyleAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-33942335227602068032015-04-20T17:20:00.003-07:002015-04-20T17:20:26.437-07:00Moncton Model Railroad ShowEven though the Moncton show is held every Easter weekend, this was the first time I was in attendance. For me, this was a big trip. I had a lot of fun with some great friends, bought a "few" things, and got to see some very fine models.<br />
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About a month before the show, I began work on my UMG modules. I put the "finishing" touches on them the night before I left for Moncton. After a bit of tweaking on Good Friday, my modules performed quite well. I do need to tweak a few of the turnouts however before the Truro show in the fall. By early Friday evening, the layout was up in running and we closed up for the night. Afterwards, we all headed over to John "Jack" Straton's for an operating session. This was the first time I had seen his layout and needless to say, the fifteen or so of us were crammed in there quite well. I was paired up with Ronald Grandmaison to work an industrial area. We took turns as brakeman/engineer but things were pretty congested. We all had a blast nonetheless. All in all, this was the largest UMG set up ever and looking back it worked quite well. <br />
<br />Its always fun to see the other guys in the MFMR splinter groups and these shows allow us to do just that. This year I stayed with Luc Nowlan and Will Lawrence. It was certainly a fun time from beginning to end and I look forward to doing it again next year. Luc plans to have his layout up and running by then and judging by his progress to date this will happen for sure. <br />
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All in all this was a fantastic weekend and I was glad to be a part of it from start to finish. After this I am really looking forward to the other functions, such as the Truro RPM, Wolfville Convention and the not so distant Truro Show.<br />
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Some shots of my Matapedia modules on Saturday</div>
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Looking towards the station as if you were standing along the Restigouche River</div>
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<br />Some of my custom locomotives made it to the show (note no glass). This belongs to Scott Jay</div>
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Setup and teardown went pretty well</div>
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One of my custom locomotives, Gaspe Rail no. 1819, on Ronald Grandmaison's modules. <br />
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I love how Ronald did the marker lights on his railiner. There is an article about it in the most recent <i>Maritime Branchline</i></div>
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I believe these were part of Trevor Jones' fine modules.</div>
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And Ziggy stole the show, as usual.</div>
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He is man's best friend after all.</div>
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Ed does some shunting on his pair of modules</div>
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Will Lawrence's Y<i>ard</i> modules. A pair of my transfer vans sit in the foreground, with Luc Nowlan's MEC U-something in the rear.</div>
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Scott operating on Derwin Cole's <i>Spring Valley</i> modules</div>
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Will Lawrence and Trevor Jones flank either side of the <i>Matapedia</i> modules</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-6370183882303476932015-03-18T18:47:00.003-07:002015-03-18T18:47:48.916-07:00Milk Crates and ModulesWe are very fortunate here in the Maritimes to have such a great crowd of model railroaders. Furthermore, the talent amongst many of these guys is second to none. One place where we all get a chance to meet up and shoot the breeze is at train shows. Our PEI group tends to go to three shows - the Moncton Show (Easter Weekend), the MFMR Convention (in May) and the Truro Show (mid October). These shows are always a good time and there is usually a good assortment of guys from PEI, NS and NB. <br />
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One of the coolest things about these shows to me is the UMG group. The UMG, or Unnamed Modular Group, is a small collection of guys throughout the Maritimes who built free-mo modules and take them to the shows, notably Moncton and Truro. I've had the pleasure of being involved with these operations twice now, both at Truro, as I've never been to the Moncton show. Fortunately, I knew several of the NS guys from the internet prior to becoming involved with the UMG. This fall I decided to build a set of modules that I could bring to the show. It was obvious to me that they were going to be Quebec themed. I tossed a few ideas around in my head before settling on the final plan. These included the following, along with the reasons in which I turned them down:<br />
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New Carlisle - this would be a set of yard modules. PEI member Ken MacQuarrie already has two separate sets of yard modules. Furthermore, NS member Will Lawrence recently completed a set of yard modules himself<br />
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Chandler - this would feature the pulp mill. I decided that this would be too hard to model accurately due to the wharf and the fact that the town is set of an S curve. NB member Ronald Grandmaison already has a set of pulp mill modules so I didn't want to fill the UMG with pulp mills.<br />
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Nouvelle West - this was my most likely plan for a while. After seeing PEI member Ed Cooke's set of modules consisting of a couple transload tracks, a main and a passing siding, I quickly began to envision how well Nouvelle West and the Temrex sawmill would fit that same track plan. I was sold on this idea for the longest time and even started to draw up plans until the last and final option came along.<br />
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Matapedia - Ok, I actually owe all the credit to Chris Mears on this one. He and I were driving to ops night a few months back and the conversation drifted to my modules when he asked why I hadn't considered Matapedia. I had never even given this one an honest thought up until this point but it made perfect sense to incorporate a wye into the UMG setup. Furthermore, this fit my Gaspe criteria perfectly. The only stumbling point for me is that I have never been west of Cross Point (Matapedia sits about 22km west of Cross Point) so I am working off of other people's photos as well as aerials.<br />
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Historically, the UMG consisted of what was essentially a box shape. PEI member on hiatus Greg MacQuarrie had built a set of wye modules but I have never seen them in use. Last fall, NS member Ric Hamilton showed up (albeit four hours late on Friday Night) with a diamond module which Will and I quickly dubbed "Conjunction Junction". Seeing the Conjunction Junction modules, as well as a couple of wye modules down in Springfield really showed me that it is possible to model wyes in a relatively small amount of space.<br />
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Matapedia itself was never anything more than a junction on the on the ICR. The town itself is very small and is nestled at the confluence of two famous salmon rivers, the Matapedia and the Restigouche, the latter of which forming the NB-PQ border, as well as being the base of the Bay of Chaleur at this point. From Matapedia, the Mont Joli Sub runs to the west, whereas the Newcastle and Cascapedia subs run north-east, towards Campbellton and New Carlisle, respectfully. The wye is just east of the station and the ICR bridge over the Restigouche forms one leg of the wye.<br />
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Basically, CN 592/593 would run in and out of Campbellton, taking the east leg of the wye onto the Cascapedia Sub. The neat part about Matapedia was the interechange between VIA 118/119 and VIA 14/15, otherwise known as <i>The Chaleur</i> and <i>The Ocean</i>. <i>The Ocean</i> would arrive on the station track whereas <i>The Chaleur</i> would park on the track behind the station which connects to the wye. From there, passengers and cars would be swapped out and the two trains would continue on their way. This practice continued right up until 2012 when<i> The Chaleur</i> was suddenly suspended indefinitely. Fast forward to the last two weeks, when I finally began working on my modules. I decided on a set of four modules, three in line and one forming the third leg of the wye. <br />
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In this photo, the white styrene area represents Matapedia station. Straight ahead would be Campbellton, to the left, New Carlisle and behind me, Mont Joli. I was using GMD-1's to test the modules as the wheels are clean and they can creep even in DC operation (I am testing on DC power thus far) I set a Chaleur consist up, which I plan on taking to the show. The consist is based off one that David Morris noted back in 1983 which Steve Boyko has noted on his blog, here, http://blog.traingeek.ca/2010/02/gaspe-trains-in-1983.html</div>
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Unfortunately, I couldn't make the wye work without a small extention. I made it from styrene and foam and it is actually quite strong. I fully sceniced this small piece tonight, mostly to hold the track in place. The underside consists of an identical sheet of foam, except it is cut out to allow one to access the feeder/bus wires. The whole thing is encased in a styrene shell.</div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-77110999200346604582015-03-14T08:56:00.000-07:002015-03-14T08:56:33.820-07:00You Don't Mess Around With Jim.One of our newest operators, James, came to us in September of 2014. He got in touch with me through Great Hobbies and tagged along with us to his first operating session shortly thereafter and stuck around ever since.<br />
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His layout has been in the planning stages for quite some time. Most of his building kits are unembarrassed as he moved a lot with work. His benchwork is fully modular and moved with him (he built several upon arriving in PEI as he says he is here to stay). I have seen some of the models he has painted/kits he has built and they are very good to say the least. James is a great modeler!<br />
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Here are some shots of last nights work session at his place. This was the second time I was over, but for the other guys, it was the first. Derwin, Scott and Ray made the trek down from the Summerside-Kensington area, whereas myself, Chris and Dave came from Charlottetown-Cornwall. All in all it was a fun evening and I think we were able to give him some sold ideas.<br />
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His layout room is quite nice, not to mention big. His work area is also huge and filled with boxes of locomotives and rolling stock. This should be a nice layout.</div>
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Looks at those handpainted mountains! They really turned out good.</div>
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Scott actually broke something!!! That's usually a task shared between Derwin and I, so we were all quite "shocked" when he caught an assembled transformer with his sleeve and sent it to the floor. It was an easy fix, but the town of Jasper was out of power for several hours.</div>
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Several weekends ago our group made our annual trip to Saint John. Some of the guys have gone over every year since 2004. This was my second trip. Last year we viewed Lou MacIntyre's Hampton and St Martin's Railway, and operated on Doug Devine's Island Central and Steve McMullin's Carleton Trail. This year we skipped Doug's and operated at Lou and Steve's. This was the first time I had operated at Lou's. For the number of tracks, it runs very, very well.</div>
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Lou's scenery and buildings are second to none. Most of the buildings are Bar Mills kits, or scratchbuilt. Almost all are wooden, with very few plastic structures around. The trees are a mix of astilbes and spirea. His use of spot lights also highlights various areas on the layout.</div>
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Next we headed over to Steve McMullin's. Steve has a pretty big layout which is very well done. It depicts fictional operations in Carleton County, NB in 1968. His freelanced road is the Carleton Railway.</div>
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This is the second time I operated at Steve's. It was a much more enjoyable experience this time around, as I finally understood how the car cards work. I may even give them a try in the future.</div>
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Steve and I taking a break (Scott Jay photo)</div>
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Steve planted these potato fields one plant at a time. I think that's what got him through his PhD.</div>
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Ed ran the yard again this year with military precision.</div>
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One of my favorite shots on the layout - Hawkin's Corner.</div>
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Crossing a small river on the upper level.</div>
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You will notice that much of Steve's rolling stock and locomotives are labelled for the Carleton. Each letter is an individual CDS dry transfer.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-34094017109709362012015-03-04T18:53:00.002-08:002015-03-04T18:53:44.041-08:00Greater Moncton Model Railroaders Come to PEIAs usual, the many splinter groups of the MFMR like to travel to each other's layouts throughout the winter for operating sessions. Two weekends ago PEI hosted the Moncton guys and the following weekend Saint John hosted us (next post) Unfortunately, only three operators were available to come this year, so they required spareboard crews. Derwin and Scott of course, along with myself, Ed, Barry and Alistair chipped in and gave them a hand.<br />
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Luc Nowlan was in charge of the local switching moves in Ashtown. It was neat to listen to him when there was another train in town, as he is a certified engineer on the Salem & Hillsborough Railway. He would call off car lenghts just like the real thing, for example, "1754 clear to reverse. Four car lenghts to a stop. Over"</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-40491289925363892272015-02-26T19:17:00.001-08:002015-02-26T19:17:09.444-08:00New Layout Under Construction<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Its no secret that I've always been fascinated with CN's operations on Quebec' Gaspe Peninsula. For me, it is a combination of a number of things. First and foremost, its my family's heritage there. I have ancestors who helped build the initial line and a second cousin who worked on the line as a conductor up until the day CN pulled out back in 1996. One of my great grandfather's on my grandmother's maternal side of the family was the engineer of the first train to reach New Carlisle back in 1909, as part of the Saint Lawrence and Atlantic / Quebec Oriental Railway network. I had a great uncle who lost his life in service, and numerous other relatives who worked on the line, eight in total I believe, all of which now deceased. It is also my general interest in the area and fascination with the simply stunning landscape. Most of all, it is my childhood memories of watching the last stand of the MLW's on the line along side my grandfather and father. The passenger trains at that time were a mix of VIA blue and stainless steel coaches, lead by a mix of brand new F40's and the last of the FPA-4's. The freights were lead by a mix of GMDD and MLW power, but mostly MLW's. M420's, HR412's, HR616's, C630M's, M636's and RS-18's were still the ruling power here. Even when CN pulled out, the Chemin de Fer des Baie des Chaleur would use leased MLW's though CANAC until late 1999.</span></span></span><br />
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One thing I had on my list for Springfield was a Van Hobbies Hawker Siddeley caboose. I had heard that they had been seen down there in the past few years but I wasn't that lucky unfortunately. I asked every vendor selling brass at the show if they had any CN cabooses and all of them said no - or so I thought. Apparently I had given my contact info to a vendor who said he might have something at home. I got an email several weeks later and low and behold, he had a Hawker Siddeley, painted, which didn't break the bank. He was also located in London, ON as well. I promptly purchased it and it arrived about two weeks ago. <br />
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The caboose was numbered and such, but I added several other decals, including ACI plates and misc car info. I weathered the wheel sets but nothing else.<br />
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He gave me a list of everything else he had and there was a Overland Point Sainte Charles caboose on the list as well. I decided to purchase it at the same price I bought the Hawker for (I got a decent deal on the Hawker considering it was painted, but I got a really good deal on the PSC as a painted OMI PSC usually sells for north of $350CDN).</div>
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The main reason I decided to buy it was because it had the "funny stacks". To my knowledge, a small number of CN PSC cabooses had their stacks relocated from the as built positions to either side of the cupola. This was done because the stacks were directly in the sightlines of the conductor/rear end brakeman who would be sitting in the cupola at any given time.</div>
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This caboose was also numbered, albeit incorrectly for a caboose with the funny stacks. I promptly renumbered it and added some other misc decals, as I did with the Hawker. It also received the same weathering tactics.</div>
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My current fleet, which consists of two wood cabooses from True Line, an Athabasca PSC brass kit, a Van Hobbies Hawker Siddeley, and two Sylvan transfer van resin kits. The weathered wood caboose was custom painted by yours truly. The second one will be weathered as well, however I plan to add modern storm windows to that one. The Athabasca is near completion, but I still have two in the boxes to build. The HS is self explanatory and the Sylvan transfer vans were also built by me. I have one more of those in the box as well. </div>
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Once those remaining caboose kits are completed, I will have the necessary fleet I desire for my operations!</div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-86183259426550495492015-02-22T16:45:00.000-08:002015-02-22T16:45:50.075-08:00The HaulI've been busy working on my UMG modules as well as my new switching layout which grew from the ashes of my previous layout so I haven't had much time to post here.<br />
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Here is my haul from Springfield.<br />
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As I said I had everything I was after in a couple of hours on the first day. Everything else was bonus. Among the pile are 9 Walthers woodchip hoppers (to be repainted), five 40' boxcars, two RS-11's (will be RS-18's), some weathering powders, a parts chopper, water tower, weathering stains, thee proto tank cars (for the Chandler Mill) some magazines featuring Gaspe railroading and two BAR cars from the Eastern Maine Modellers group.<br />
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Here's another shot of those BAR cars. The boxcar needs stirrups.<br />
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This woodchip car was scratcbuilt by the group.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-37904613632345386232015-01-31T19:25:00.000-08:002015-01-31T19:25:27.301-08:00(Trevor's) Final CountdownThe Springfield Show has come and gone. This was the third year in a row for four members of our group, but for me it was the first. We ended up travelling down in three "sections" making limited stops in Moncton, Calais, somewhere else in Maine and finally Springfield. It was a good thing we aren't really in the passenger business as we only managed to pick up one passenger in Moncton.<br />
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The show was fantastic. When I first arrived I never thought I was going to be able to cover it all. There were four large buildings totaling a third of million square feet and change. I didn't have that big of a list thankfully so I didn't end up blowing the budget. In fact, I had everything I had come for in an hour and a half, with everything else being icing on the cake. The thing I really liked about the show was the amount of ideas you could get from looking at the various kits available (not Walther's kits but real, wood kits) as well as the custom cars and locomotives. One thing I didn't like was the number of Blue Box kits selling for $15 to $20, when brand new Intermountain and Atlas cars were priced between $20 and $25. It made the choice of what to buy quite easy. Day one was strictly a shopping day, whereas day two was a day to look at the modules and pick up anything that interested me. Here are some photos I took of the show.<br />
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For those interested, Jamie Richards took way more photos than I did. I have included the link below:<br />
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The weekend itself was nothing short of fantastic and something I won't forget anytime soon. We've always had a really great group of guys in our operating group and everyone was able to attend other than two or three guys. Everyone gets along very well and the whole weekend was one big laugh riot for the most part and I couldn't have asked for a better bunch of people to go down with. It was also funny running into other members of the Maritime Federation of Model Railroaders down there as well. In total, I think I say close to ten other people from the MFMR over the course of the two days.<br />
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By the way, the title for this one extends from a member of our regular operating group. He began to count down the days to Springfield back in October or so and had been known to call out the "number of sleeps" across the lunchroom to another member of our group who happens to work for the same employer.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-39194127807854440942014-12-29T13:49:00.001-08:002014-12-29T13:49:20.266-08:00These are the yard limits man. Anything goes behind that line.Here are some shots of some locomotives I have completed in the past year or so. Most of these are client jobs, however, there are a few for myself in here. In looking back at 2014, I was amazed at how many locomotives along I put out, most of which from August on wards.<br />
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Today marks the 25th anniversary of the departure of the last train from PEI. <br />
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The consist was as follows:<br />
CN plow(s) 55242 & 55264, CN flat cars 663636 & 663443 (both loaded with section shacks), CN gondolas 147409 & 149581 (both loaded with scrap metal) and two empty propane cars, GATX 149581 and a CGTX car donning an Irving Oil logo (I am unsure on the number of this car). The power was RSC-14's 1786 and 1750.<br />
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MV John Hamilton Gray was loaded at 2:45AM and left at 3:30.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-18024336217646888082014-12-24T18:48:00.001-08:002014-12-24T18:48:13.381-08:00Wonderin' where the "Alco's" are<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.7199993133545px;">
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C424's 3205s, 3208s, 3219n, 3223s, 3232n</div>
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Note: an "s" indicates an engine painted in stripes whereas an "n" indicates an engine in the 1961 Noodle scheme.</div>
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My Gaspe diesel fleet will consist of a mix of GMDD and MLW products, with the latter being the mainstay of the fleet. For the better part of 30 years between the late 1950's and the early 1980's, the venerable MLW RS-18 was the mainstay of the Campbellton Division's fleet. All of the mainline freights had one if not several RS-18's leading and the yard power in Gaspe and New Carlisle was, you guessed it, RS-18's. Even the passenger trains (CN, later VIA, 118/119) were hauled by 1, sometimes 2, RS-18's up until the winter of 1987 when the FPA4s came online. I remember that the 3600s and 3700s were my grandfather's favorite locomotives to operate. He used to talk about leaving Gaspe or Campbellton with five or six RS-18s on the head end. In the early days, they were lucky if they would arrive in New Carlisle with two still online, however, they would just keep pulling he would say, you just couldn't stop them. </div>
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Throughout this time, H16-44's and H12-64's were also used frequently, as well as a mix of C424s, C630Ms, M636's, M420s, SD40s and GP40s. In the later years (1980+) the RS-18s began to operate less frequently and engines like HR616s and HR412s started to appear. </div>
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The copper ore train was an interesting situation. According to my sources it was always hauled by two 2500s (later 3500s) or two to three 1700s. I found it interesting to note that they used 1700's due to the weight of that train. It would make sense that these would appear though as there were three 1700s assigned to the St Quinten Sub out of Campbellton that would have been "spare power" when not in use on that line.</div>
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Last night's operating session went quite smoothly, which was aided by the fact that we had an unusually small crew, meaning that everyone operated for both sessions - something we hadn't had to do in quite some time. Now seems like a fitting time to take a look back at the operating sessions we have all grown accustomed to, and all the fun we've had through them.<br />
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These first couple of shots show why we needed the extension. Since I joined the group three winters ago, we have nearly doubled in size. In fact, there was talk of an extension even before I joined the group...it just took that long for it to happen unfortunately. In looking at this photo, we are still missing half a dozen of our current members.<br />
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This two shots gives a good look at the size of the room.<br />
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The extension itself sits in a pretty sizeable chunk of real estate itself. The lead to the new section ties in right where Scott (maroon shirt, back left of room) in the above photo is standing. It runs under the display case along the back wall (no, we couldn't convince him to move the case) and through the doorway to the right. I don't have any real recent shots of the whole room with all of the track in place, but these should suffice.<br />
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Most of the track is connected here and hasn't changed much. As of last night, there were temporary stand in buildings complete with named sidings as well as a bunch of new cars</div>
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Lots of potatoes on the move during this preliminary run on the new section.</div>
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Last but not least, here are some photos from throughout the last while, which I took doing what I do best, railfanning while operating a moving consist.<br />
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Unfortunately, I don't have a photo of this car on the layout, but this was built by yours truly for Derwin as a joke earlier this year. Turns out he absolutely can't stand the song "Up on Cripple Creek" from The Band's "Music from Big Pink" album and several of us like to give him a hard time for it. He wasn't going to run it but now that he has all this extra track he doesn't have a choice.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-7249608127864137332014-12-15T15:46:00.002-08:002014-12-15T15:46:50.970-08:00Charlie Don't SurfBack on October 10th, while both caught in the midst of building the very first "proper" CN RSC-13 known to HO scale*, Chris and myself decided to take a break and have a small operating session. With a now up and running N scale layout right behind the dining room table, it was understandably tough to plan the build and talk about future rapid prototyping projects with it luring us in. Eventually we both caved under the pressure and took a break.<br />
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*in fact, there are only three RSC-13's known to exist in HO scale, with the other two being in CNR Green & Gold, both consisting of a stock, renumbered RS-3 riding on modified Atlas RSD truck towers with Miniatures By Eric brass sideframes.<br />
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A Proto GP9 sporting a patched Santa Fe paint job is close enough to PEIR roadpower for me.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">The task at hand was to pull the string of four (now loaded) boxcars on the track in the foreground and replace them with four empty cars from the back track.</span><br />
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The cars in the foreground were simply pulled from the yard to allow us to use the center track as a build track.</div>
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As you can see, Chris's modular style layout is only 8 feet long, but since he is using N scale, he can fit a lot in. All of the track is handlaid Code 70 rail from Microengineering laid on a combination of wood and PC board ties.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-31755990907226374202014-12-09T18:23:00.001-08:002014-12-09T18:23:48.493-08:00Fresh MeatWork continued on Alistair's layout last Wednesday night. We are planning on meeting again this Friday. Several of us are really looking forward to having an operating layout in the Charlottetown area again. Alistair's originally from Scotland and his interests are mainly in UK prototypes. He plans on running several high speed trainsets (HST's) as well as some freight.<br />
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Dr. Mears assists Steve in laying track. Chris and Steve started in the right corner while Alistair and I tackled the left and we met in the middle with precision rivaling the workers who built the Chunnel.<br />
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Once we had the yard leads and some trackage in the HST area down, we couldn't resist this shot. OK we cheated it a bit by splitting the Pendalino in half but still, the scene is really starting to come together. I can picture a nice brick or rock retaining wall in behind the MU cars.<br />
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I can only imagine how nice this scene will look when Alistair's five APT-E's arrive. As Jason's only Canadian buyer, I hear they are on a first name basis and chat on the tele frequently. (...ok its only one trainset but still)</div>
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Currently, the entire mainline is in place and all of the switches for sidings/yards coming off the main are in place. All of the track is soldered and Alistair was able to run a train, albeit in HO, on Friday.</div>
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We are planning on meeting again this Friday and installing bus wires for the DCC as well as the rest of the yard trackage for the HST area, as well as the intermodal yard.</div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-43736061249009812482014-11-30T19:45:00.000-08:002014-11-30T19:45:11.955-08:00Fredericton Station - Perhaps the last time I'll see it standing.Last winter and Hurricane Arthur were hard on the old station this past year. Here are some last ditch photos Chris Mears and I took of the station this past Saturday,while we were out getting any last measurements Chris needed to complete his drawings of the station. <br />
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At this time, we aren't sure what will take the station down first, the elements or demolition. We have received word that a permit was filed to demolish the building later in December, bringing an end to yet another PEIR station.<br />
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I plan to scratch a model of this later on in the winter for one reason or another.<br />
<br />One half of the hip roof had already collapsed prior to this year, but Hurricane Arthur completely flattened it this summer. I suspect that with the winter they are calling for, the entire building will be flattened if the contractors do not take care of it first.<br />
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The north and west sides are still standing and in relatively good shape, however the south and east walls haven't faired as well.<br />
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Chris examined the massive hole in the back of the station, as well as grabbing a few quick shots of the brick siding, in hopes of photoshopping it for our upcoming build in HO.<br />
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<br />The inside of the passenger end is in very rough shape. I didn't bother to go into the ticket booth (left) or the baggage end (further left) due to the current condition of the building this trip.<br />
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The red and yellow paint CN used on the station are clearly visible here, although faded. We were able to acquire chips of each. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-71813123073269611642014-11-22T20:13:00.001-08:002014-11-22T20:13:18.693-08:00A Closer Look at Port Daniel, QuebecAlthough Port Daniel was never really a large stop on the railway, I've always found it to be a nice little town intertwined with the railroad much more than many other towns due to its unique layout. Currently, Port Daniel-Gascons (now merged with several surrounding communities) has a population of close to 2500 persons, mostly French speaking. The town is unique in that the railway doesn't just run north or south of it but rather right through the center of it, unlike the majority of Gaspe communities. The town contains two large bridges, a station and the only tunnel on the entire line. The bridges cross the "Petite Port Daniel" River to the west and the "Grande Port Daniel" River to the east. <br />
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Located at Mile 22.5 of the Cascapedia Subdivision, Port Daniel has never been much more than a station stop for east and westbound passenger trains. According to CN timetable #82, dated Sunday, April 26, 1953, Port Daniel once contained a passing siding with a 12 car capacity and a second track with a capacity of 9 cars.* The most recent timetable I have access to, CN #85, dated Sunday, May 29, 1983, lists the length of the passing siding as 700ft, but gives no length to the other track. I assume that this mysterious other track is simply a team track due to its proximity to the station. Given the lay of the land (steep hillside north of the tracks, steep dropoff to the Barachois to the south) there is also very little room for any sort of a building here, although it is possible that there was a separate freight shed on this track at some point.<br />
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The only record I can find of rail-serviced industries in the area stems from timetable #82, at Mile 26.4, about a mile east of the station, referring to a place called "Derairiche". Apparently this stop had a double ended siding (points facing east and west) and a capacity of 6 cars.<br />
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I have summarized the speeds in the area as well from Timetable #24, dated Sunday, April 30, 1972.<br />
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Note that the mainline is highlighted in red, yellow denotes the two bridges whereas the green area depicts the tunnel. The red box under "Port Daniel" represents the station.<br />
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Below are a series of photos I took on November 10, 2014, after convincing everyone to hop in the car and take a drive down to Port Daniel for a look around. The town of Port Daniel is located at the mouth of a small inlet, as seen from a vantage point several kilometers west on Rte 132.<br />
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The station itself is very well preserved and is one of three on the line that has been designated as a provincial historic site. </div>
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You can see where what's left of the passing siding below, which ends in front of the station. Presumably the east facing point was removed during some road construction on Rte 132 (about 250m behind me in this photo) and never replaced. The west facing point has also been removed however its remnants are still very visible. This follows suit with almost every other passing siding on the line, most of which having been removed for one reason or another in the mid to late 1990's by the various entities that owned the line after the end of the CN era in 1996.</div>
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The location of the switch stand is clearly visible here.</div>
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Here the west facing point into what I think is a team track is visible and still intact. The switch stand also looks to be in operable condition. Judging by the amount of vegetation, this track hasn't been used in some time, however, there aren't any saplings coming up through the sleepers either.<br />
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The team track runs back to a point about 75m from the station and stops.<br />
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The wheel stops are barely visible through the weeds here.</div>
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The following photos show the bridge spanning the Petite Port Daniel River. It would have been built by the Quebec Oriental/ Atlantic Quebec and Western Railways and matches many other similar structures on the line, as well as surrounding Intercolonial Railway and National Transcontinental Railways in nearby New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.<br />
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Below are photos of the bridge over the Grande Port Daniel River. I have seen many wonderful photos of The Chaleur crossing this bridge, from many well respected railfans including Gary Knapp, Steve Boyko, David Morris and quite possibly Bill Linely as well.</div>
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This photo shows the hillside which the tunnel cuts through. When faced with tapping the line through, the engineers couldn't go in behind this area as the land only gets steeper and they couldn't go around it on the water side as there is no land there. The only solution was to go through. The tunnel was built in 1908.<br />
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Looking west from the west portal entrance.<br />
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*(http://www.traingeek.ca/files/19530426-CN-ETT-Atlantic-Campbellton-Edmundston.pdf) [page 8]Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-61838876038073997302014-11-15T17:32:00.000-08:002014-11-15T17:32:05.274-08:00UMG Module PlanI've been toying around with the idea of building a pair of UMG modules for the past year and after getting a good luck at the setup in Truro this fall I think I've finally settled on a design. <br />
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The UMG (Unnamed Module Group) is a group of modellers throughout the Maritimes who have constructed a series of FreeMo modules which they display at various shows.<br />
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I was initially thinking of modelling an area in Nouvelle on the Gaspe with a lumber mill (which I have sort of done) but I added in some things to increase switching opportunities.<br />
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The bridge on the left and the basic setup of the two lumber loading and chip loading tracks is analogous to Nouvelle, with the main difference being that there are two lumber loading tracks and the chip loading track runs back into the facility for some distance. The buildings and track arrangement at the upper right corner will be loosely based on this prototype in British Columbia.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-5675523590068663542014-11-08T09:24:00.001-08:002014-11-08T09:24:11.325-08:00Railfan Five ChallengeMy Railfan Five Challenge:<br />
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After being locked out of my blog for several months due to all of the changes to Google plus, I was able to regain access in a different province of all places thanks to some save info on a different laptop...phew.<br />
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Anyways, better late than never, here is my response to Eric's challenge, in which Chris nominated me.<br />
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I'd like to thank Eric for coming up with the idea and Chris for nominating me. I have been exposed to railroading for my entire life. My father comes from a railroad family which lived in a small English town on the Gaspe Peninsula called New Carlisle. New Carlisle was the division point between the Chandler Sub to the east and the Cascapedia Sub to the West. The line was originally built during the early 1900's by the Quebec Oriental Railway and the Quebec and St Lawrence Railways, both of which were absorbed into Canadian Government Railways, and later the CNR. 1909 saw the first train to New Carlisle and ten years later the first train reached the town of Gaspe. From the lines inception in the early 1900's to its sale to the Quebec Railway Corporation in 1996, I have had at lease one relative employed by the railway in the region . I can remember the better days vaguley between about 1995 and 2002, when there was a passenger train every other day and a freight each way every day. The region was hit hard between 1998 and 2006, where the closure of several large paper mills and a once prosperous copper mine closed, spelling the end of freight traffic on the line. In 2010, the eastern end of the line was declared unsafe due to several aging bridges and VIA's Chaleur began turning at New Carlisle indefinitely. In the summer of 2013, the rest of the line was deemed unsafe and VIA's Chaleur was terminated until further notice. Other than a sporadic work train in the summer and the odd high rail truck, the line is all but abandoned. The only reason the tracks haven't been lifted is because the right of way and all rail infrastructure was purchased by the four counties on the Gaspe between 1998 and 2008.<br />
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This first photo was taken on Oct 19, 2013 at Truro, NS. I was over for the weekend for the Train Show (in fact the first train show I'd ever been to) when Bill Linely and David Othen asked me if I'd like to come along with them to go and watch VIA 15 with them. There were a lot of firsts here for me - first time seeing The Ocean, first time seeing a VIA triple header, first time seeing the Renaissance equipment, first time seeing a Park Car and my first actual railfan experience.<br />
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This second photo is actually one of my personal favorites and I regard it as the best railfan photo I have ever taken. There is something that is just right about this photo, whether it is the fresh ballast, sparkling consist or the bright fall colours. I took this one on 18 November 2011, roughly a quarter mile east of the station in New Carlisle. This location is about halfway between the station and Christie's Rock to the east and represents my favorite stretch of track to view trains on. <br />
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After arriving in New Carlisle last summer I walked down to the yard the following morning as I always to see what was going on. I was looking forward to this trip as it would be the first time I had ever seen the crews wye The Chaleur; as they had been turning the train in New Carlisle for some time due to track conditions further east. I was surprised to see a work train sitting on one of the yard tracks. The Chaleur arrived about a half hour late and I stuck around to watch the crew wye the train. I was able to take snap this shot of The Chaleur pulling up past the work train during the turning operations. The date was 8 August 2013. I received word from a friend of mine who also happens to be one of the last remaining engineers with the freight company on the line that they would be heading west to Matapedia to refill the ballast hoppers the following morning. I arrived at the yard office and met the crew at 6 AM, watched them cold start the locomotives, got a great tour of both units and saw them off. We arrived home to PEI the following week where I learned that The Chaleur had been sidelined indefinitely due to a mix of track conditions and political reasons. The date was 10 August 2013. As is turns out, I was able to catch what just might be the last VIA Rail Chaleur ever, purely by coincidence.<br />
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I took this photos back in August 2008. After watching trains for years, I decided to invest in a camera. I shot the train crossing Green Road and then as they prepared to leave the station. Trainman Boyd McBrian is seen doing his final checks of the consist before giving the all clear. Engineers Peter Douglas and Gilles Lamy are already aboard. Back at the station, Dominique Leger, the long serving station master at New Carlisle assist the last of her passengers onto the train. The first three names represent the last of the men based out of the original crew base of New Carlisle to work for VIA Rail. All of them have since retired.<br />
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Due to the VIA F40PH-2D rebuild program at Cadrail, VIA began experience power shortages across its network. In the past, two locomotives had always been placed on the consist for the months of Sepetember, October and November, to provide extra traction power. Wet leaves on the tracks had been an onging issue ever since the last regular freights ceased operation east of New Richmond in 2006. Due to the power shortage, VIA leased CN 9416, a GP40-2L(W) to haul The Chaleur. For the duration of the fall, 9416 was added onto VIA 14/15 at Matapedia after the train had been split from The Ocean and stored at Matapedia when not in use. On 10 October 2009, I was lucky enough to catch the first CN unit on the line over ten years (since the end of the CANAC leased MLW's between 1996-97). 9416 had been one of two yard engines in Campbellton for some time, and continued to do so after 2009, however one day it never came back. During a trip over to Truro for the train show last night, I found it in D yard, assigned as the yard power there, still without a proper noodle on the nose five years later.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-20607363250895715502014-03-09T19:43:00.002-07:002014-03-09T19:43:22.140-07:00A Switching Layout in HO - Part IVI've been pretty tied up with school and work since my last update, however I was able to make some progress on the layout yesterday. I removed the old plywood that Chris has used as a base and installed new stuff. In the process, I decided to bring the layout to a total depth of 18" so that the tracks aren't right on the edge. Now the dimensions are 7' x 1.5'. <br />
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I have most of the track down at this point. I'm going to have to pick up a couple of sections of Code 40 rail to finish off the back engine storage line and "spur" lines.</div>
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Thankfully, the joints all line up and the rolling stock moves freely across them. Unfortunatly, this area also has the highest number of tracks. Clearly, I underestimated the grading on this siding and I'll have to rework the ties.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-4431859638648598412014-02-23T09:40:00.001-08:002014-02-23T09:42:50.080-08:00A Switching Layout in HO - Part IIIEvery day more and more of Chris's original vision is lost as more and more of mine is gained. I was however able to salvage all of his roadbed/track work as one piece (other than where I am changing the gauge from Code 40 to Code 100, in that case the rail and roadbed will be used separately) After getting a little carried away at yesterday's switch building clinic in Summerside I decided to use my extra switch to incorporate a public siding at the right end of the layout as indicated on the updated map below.<br />
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Here is a view of that Public Siding, made mostly from roadbed salvaged from where the new left hand switch is located<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-72357310636745917332014-02-20T19:50:00.000-08:002014-02-20T19:50:05.674-08:00A Switching Layout in HO - Part IIBetween tonight and Tuesday I was able to make some real progress with the layout. I have all of the Code 100 rail laid on one half and only have the points and one frog left on the two switches. Overall, I am very pleased with how this is progressing.<br />
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My attempt at "continuous welded rail" in HO. Actually, I really don't like the look of rail joiners and since there is only a small amount of track here I can focus on the details. I plan to add styrene fishplates at a later date.<br />
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The "joint" for the two halves is clearly visible here. The blue ties will be replaced by copper ones for added strenght.<br />
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Just by luck, there isn't a turnout in sight at 3.5' thankfully.<br />
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Some more creative rail joints - all credit goes to Mears for the suggestion. I had to join code 100 and code 40 rail so I cut a code 40 rail joiner into four pieces and soldered the code 40 rail on top of the cut joiner to raise the rail head to the code 100 height. </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-14443561877312806182014-02-18T19:42:00.003-08:002014-02-18T19:46:16.705-08:00A Switching Layout in HO<a href="http://princestreet.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/the-layout-one-week-later/"><span style="color: blue;">Chris got bored with whatever he was working on (in this case, his most recent switching layout)</span></a> and tried to send it off to the first bidder. This time, I was lucky as the item in question seemed to be up for grabs internally before it hit his blog. Long story short, I received Chris's switching layout consisting of beautifully handlaid Code 40 track. After a little mix up in getting it home (half went up to Kensington while the other half stayed in Charlottetown) I finally got it home a couple of weeks ago.<br />
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The downside is that I think I'm beginning to develop to many projects, looking at my uncompleted layout as well as the pile of locomotive and freight car projects on the be. Since I have everything on hand I hope to have this finished before the start of fly fishing in mid-April.<br />
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Last night I finally had the chance to work on it. Since it was cut in half, I decided to straighten it out and add in a section to being it to an overall lenght of 7'. I plan to build the front/back out to around a foot and a half once all is said and done. The layout will separate in the middle for easy transport. I will mount a backdrop of masonite 1.5' high on the back decorated with photos of the Appalachian Mountains, taken around Nouvelle, on the Gaspe Peninsula. After thinking about it, I ended up with the following track plan:<br />
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The idea of the "spur to nowhere" is basically to act as a lead into the engine storage and will disappear into the scenery behind the warehouse. The mainline in green will be handlaid code 100 track whereas everything else will be code 40. Last night I was able to create a mockup and lay most of the ties.<br />
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Tonight I laid 1/4 of the total code 100 rail left to be laid. I also removed all of the code 40 that was on the present mainline and salavaged it for the sidings. The difference in rail height should provide for an interesting comparison.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-45378592926066642982013-12-15T09:29:00.000-08:002013-12-15T09:29:04.928-08:00Hunter River Mill UpdateHere are some updated photos of the mill. I suspect I will be stalled out on this one for a while now as I need to make the many Purina signs as well as windows and doors.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-66107417027217304412013-12-11T05:28:00.002-08:002013-12-11T05:28:26.419-08:00Hunter River Feed MillA while back I decided that I wanted to build a model of the Hunter River feed mill, which was serviced by the PEI railroad. The mill was serviced right up until 1989 and burned in 2000. I have little memory of it. <br />
<br />After many back and fourth emails between myself, Chris Mears and Steve Hunter I received some great photos of the mill pre and post renovations which took place in late 1989. Originally the mill was finished in ashpalt brick siding which was covered with blue tin. The roof appears to be plain silver painted tin.<br />
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This is a link to some of Chris's photos:<br />
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The property itself is still owned by the same company however a much smaller complex currently exists today. I took a drive out this past Sunday, hoping to measure the foundation, however it has been covered over so the building is roughly to scale...although I think I made the elevator too high.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540865437470882194.post-60162806056779479172013-12-04T09:22:00.005-08:002013-12-04T09:22:56.828-08:00Operating on the Bayside and TidewaterI would really like to start posting on this again. I think I might try to keep it to a weekly post from here on out.<br />
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In addition to Canadisle Rail just outside of Kensington, there is a second layout in Summerside which we routinely operate on. Our group rotates between the two on Sunday nights. Scott Jay models CP loosely in the 1950's-1960's and has a very nice operation in his basement - namely the Bayside and Tidewater.<br />
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Here are some photos which highlight the main areas of Scott's layout.<br />
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The layout consists of two yards - Bayside and Tidewater - as well as several trains, in no particular order:<br />
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<i>West One</i> - departs Bayside Yard, runs to Tidewater Yard. The operator runs around his train and returns to Bayside Yard as West Two<br />
<i>East One</i> - departs Tidewater Yard at the beginning of the session and runs to Bayside Yard where the operator runs around his train, returning to Tidewater Yard.<br />
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There is one local in each of the four towns -Chappleton-Kenville-Derwin's Drop-Stephenville- which set out cars for the two mainline freights and put away cars which are dropped off for the various industries.<br />
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Misc Trains<br />
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<i>Milk Train</i> - usually a string of wood reefers, hauled by two steam locomotives. Scott runs this train at the beginning of the session, which starts and terminates in Wholinthol<br />
<i>US Interchange</i> -starts mid session, basically picking up interchange cars from both yards. It is hauled by three B&M RS-3's<br />
<i>Yard Transfer</i> - takes place mid session between the two yards.<br />
<i>Coal Peddler</i> - typically steam powered, usually runs to the mine in Derwin's Drop and terminates in Wholinthol<br />
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Clearly, operations were in mind when he designed this layout. Unlike Derwin's Canadisle Rail, Scotts layout is not point to point, although he has the option to do so through an out-of-sight turnout. Scott also has hidden staging in Wholinthol (hole in the wall) where the tracks pass out of sight into staging in his work space.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11992535289106333751noreply@blogger.com2