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Some potatoes for the cannery. If you look close, there are potatoes a the feet of the farmer. (Good use for HO ballast ;^)
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| Stunning scenery, I am planning on modeling the Spreckles Sugar narrow gauge out here in California and wish your farmer was growing sugar beets instead of potatos as I need all the O scale beets I can get. Again a stunning layout and a great insperation! I need to try the wig trick for grass.... |
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| Ted, making the potato plants was just a variation of how I make my bushes (http://members.shaw.ca/twofootBill/bush.htm)
You could probably make beat plants the same way, just using a few strands of sisal. |
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Edaville #12, 28 ft boxcar. Train & Trooper Edaville Boxcar decals
Terry Smith's P&SR |
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| The decals were originally from Chris Cardinal. |
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Bridgton #63 boxcar, 30 ft boxcar painted in the pre 1907 grey freight car scheme. Red numbers from Woodland Scenics, MG710, Numbers Roman, RR – Red. Note the photo lighting was set up to emphasise the roof seams (styrene roof plus special lining tape for seams). This picture is the best view of the roof mounted brake ratchet casting that I use.
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| Terry, nice to see a proper tin roof modelled on a two foot boxcar. |
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2006-01-16 03:56:31 |
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| Hi Terry:
I agree with Bill - you've done a super job!
- Trevor |
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This is DR #3 departing So. Derry yard. Right now she's in pieces waiting a rebuild and yes, that's my Hinkley before the rebuild.
Chester Louis's Deerfield River RR |
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2005-10-27 05:40:09 |
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| Chester, can't wait to see your Hinkley finished! |
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2006-01-16 03:57:30 |
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| Chester:
You've done a marvelous job on your layout so far - I'm looking forward to reports of further progress (with pictures!)
Cheers!
- Trevor |
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WW&F 28 ft reefer # 65, Chris Cardinal Urethane kit plus own Tin Roof mouldings. Airbrushed Floquil Boxcar red sides, Brush painted Humbrol grey roof.
Terry Smith's P&SR |
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| No one has ever gotten that siding right in a kit since then! |
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John Hitzeman |
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Bill Kerr's SR&RL |
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| Bill, this tree looks great. You must tell us how you made it. |
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2006-01-16 03:58:31 |
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| Bill - Chester's right: super tree. I really like the size - it looks big enough to be real. How long did it take you to make this tree?
- Trevor |
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2006-03-23 00:00:41 |
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| The reason it looks so real, it was part of a real tree, took about 10 minutes, drilled stem fto glue in an additional branch to fill in a blank spot, added Selkirk netting and Leaves with 3M Super 77 spray glue |
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To see more - http://MaineOn2-SPCRR.fotopic.net
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| Late in 2006 I took a job with a new company. Between jobs I took time off to visit the East Broad Top for the first time. Now, when I review your model photographs, I see how well you have captured the look of narrow rails in an eastern rural setting.
Happy New Year. Maybe I will get up to Portland for the Convention this year.
Mark Chase
Richmond VA |
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SR&RL box 85
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| Nice boxcar! Is this a kit or custom built? I need decals like that, please email me if you don't mind sharing your source... |
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Close up of closed door sides
Bridgton 26 foot boxcar |
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The fabled "Camp Pondicherry" car with shingled roof used in the backwoods of Maine.
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| Very nice work. Thanx for sharing. |
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| Very nice work. Thanx for sharing. |
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| Depending on year you model...late 20's 'til 1943 passing siding was broken into two stub sidings with tie/timber bumpers either side of road. Just past turntable was peaked roof clapboard , square,MOW shed. Just past MOW shed was culvert, wooden bent center pier, slate block ends/abutments light rails spanning, slate blocks on top of rails, sub roadbed material, ballast. Between turntable and Water St, set back from Track was Slate Company Office, converted from a home . Accross tracks and down accross from turntable was single story unfinished, non-railroad, barn/shed, close to tracks Original woodshed and enginehouse peakroofed, clapboard sided burned 11/1918. Square, clapboard sided Peakroof MOW shed, or, Machine shop directly in back of engine house and directly beside curving Lake spur track |
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| addenda,Before 1930's curved(L) spur between enginehouse and carhouse, crossed Chapin Road served trackside quarries, crossed Greenville road, went up a grade and ended up at Lake Hebron quarry yard. Directly after crossing Chapin Road was a rh switch and long stub siding paralleling Lakeside spur. This siding served a long(@600'), single story, peakroof, multi freight doored (@ 26' centers), single windows between doors, board and battened(???) shed(track on outside) that finished roofing slates were made and stored prior to shipment by rail. Not unusual to see horse and freight wagons(delivery/pickups??) backed up to doors. As Lakeside spur was kept free of car storage (unlike 30's and 40's) from 1883-1920's, would not be a stretch for Ford truck to be backed in, too. What back side of this building looked like is unknown, by me.
Other curved (R)spur, which passed car house, descended steeply, parallel to Chapin Road arriving at Monson Maine Company's quarry , finishing sheds, and yard. Before spur dropped, a LH switch ran a siding @1/4 mile(Pictures of quarry/mill yard show a waste rock/grout "hill" rising to left of finish sheds; sand shed described was a-top this "hill"which was level topped and set back) in to a long, peak roof, open side shed-used for bulk storage of ocean sand for finishing/polishing of slate products. Access was through one end , down center of building. This sand would have been transhipped, again, to smaller storage bins located on siding BETWEEN finish sheds at Monson Maine Company yard. (By my 1st visit in early '70s, building was used by Monson Highway department for equipment sand/salt storage, so, had been modified. It was situated in a long, wide, flat area,that was regularly repaired by road grader, so any other tracks/ buildings are a guess.)
Spur continued past Monson Maine yard through and past 2 other operations(Dirigo/Kineo??)'then ïnto woods where there were several short sidings either side of spur, serving Company woodlots, went accross a Low embankmentskirting Monson Pond/marshy area(when pond water was up, track was wet...that LOW. some evidence of filled trestwork) climbing through woods to the Eighteen Quarry, @ 2 miles from Monson Depot. Evidence of derrick and derrick engine shed, small office/machineshop maybe siding off of spur. Very, very ruined and "back to nature". |
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| Addenda to the Addenda...enginehouse fire(and presumably damaged original woodshed, was 11/1919, not 1918.
Slate roofing shed was on more or, less straight siding, Lakeside spur, was mor, or less curving away from shed at this point.
Quarry operation directly adjacent to Monson Maine operation was Forrest Quarry. Kineo was location of large sand storage shed. Dirigo operation was on spur to Lake Hebron.
Picture in Jones book Page60, shows culvert at entrance to Monson Village Yard, did Not have slate blocks/subroadbed ontop of rails...more of ballasted deck.
Culverts on 18 spur up hill section, DID have rail-supporting slate blocks-subroadbed ballast-ties/rails. |
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| Nicely done. Obviusly after rebuild of freight house.
There was a dirt road between station & freight house. After freight house there was a "side board shed {leanto}" with a "maintence garage across the Monson tracks, more or less in line with Water Tower, which was square.
One of the things that I found out, pick a year, the freight house changed with time. Length, door & window location, varied from year to year. At one point there were two "side board" sheds. |
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| Maintainence GarageBob mentioned was originally home for BAR Station Agent, Giles Fogg((tall, be-tied, suspendered,and be-spectacled older gentleman with agent 's cap [mislabelled as H.E. Morrill{Morrill was shorter man} in Jones Book] at Jct. freight house, personal automobile. Originally Agent lived in upstairs apartment in depot; this became storage, at some point; Agent Fogg built, or, bought house beside mainline directly to left of depot, residing there after retirement and storing his car at "home".
Possible by 1930's that coal house was stub spur off BAR freighthouse runaround Also, timber crib transfer wharf(level withBAR freight car decks) to right of coalshed Monson track went upgrade to right of coal shed
Grade crossing to right of BAR end of track. Monson mainline curved away from yard/BAR mainline, crossed main road to Monson/Greenville and disappeared into woods, in more or less straight line, until it crossed Ladd Brook bridge/trestle(depending on era) @ 1 mile away. |
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| Giles Fogg photos, in Jones Book: Pg 32 on depot platform, replete with vest and jacket; Page 77, standing on Monson flatcar holding freight bills/. paperwork.
Page 74 shows 2 views employees one at Jct. one at Monson. Jct(L-R) Paul Jackson freight handler/conductor , Frank Elwin French, Albin Johnson.
Monson: (L-R) seated and obscured Cecil Johnson, Gus Johnson, Paul Jackson in conductor regalia, H.E. Morrill in cabof #4, Frank Elwin French,and, Albin Johnson-straddling rails |
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