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Charleston, Roanoke & Eastern Railway: January 2013
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Charleston, Roanoke and Eastern Railway. An operations-based N scale model railroad representing a freelanced division of Norfolk Southern. Monday, January 28, 2013. Latest at Smith Summit. Tonight I finished the last of the scenery work around the 12 whopping feet of mainline that I have ballasted. That's 12 out of close to 300 feet of mainline, including the K&N branch, and I hate to think how many feet of sidings and yard tracks have to be done. This will be a lifelong project. Additional scenery work...
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Southern Ry. East S-Line: September 2012
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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Monday, September 10, 2012. Layout Construction I: Shelf Benchwork. The Eastern S-Line layout will be multilevel with three levels of operating railroad and staging above and below the layout, all connected by helices. Like all multilevel layouts, there is a premium on having the decks as thin as possible so there is more room for sceniced, operating layout. Bottom of Layout Shelf. Monday, September 3, 2012. Givens and Druther...
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Southern Ry. East S-Line: November 2014
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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Thursday, November 27, 2014. Track Plan I - Levels 1 and 2. See my Givens and Druthers ( Part I. It looks like this will have four or five visible levels. The top level, which is above head height,is the west staging yard, representing Oyama Yard in Hickory, NC. Im calling this Level 0. Monday, November 24, 2014. Modeled Area - Update. After starting construction, I decided that have a shelf devoted to only one train a day in ...
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Southern Ry. East S-Line: Track Plan I - Levels 1 & 2
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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Thursday, November 27, 2014. Track Plan I - Levels 1 and 2. See my Givens and Druthers ( Part I. It looks like this will have four or five visible levels. The top level, which is above head height,is the west staging yard, representing Oyama Yard in Hickory, NC. I'm calling this Level 0. The back side of this is now in the train house. Here is a picture of the bridge. Level 1: Conover and Newton. Level 2: Conover and Catawba.
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Charleston, Roanoke & Eastern Railway: July 2012
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Charleston, Roanoke and Eastern Railway. An operations-based N scale model railroad representing a freelanced division of Norfolk Southern. Sunday, July 15, 2012. Signal Maintainer Foster to the rescue. On July 15, 2012, Quintin Foster arrived all the way from Utah to help CR&E signal engineers with the CTC project. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Signal Maintainer Foster to the rescue. CP Rail Manitoba and Minnesota Subdivision. Bowser SD40-2F Red Barn Update. Des Plaines River Crossing Part II.
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Southern Ry. East S-Line: Givens & Druthers III - The Trains
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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Saturday, December 28, 2013. Givens and Druthers III - The Trains. I just included the schedules as far as Hickory, since that will be the end of the modeled railroad. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Givens and Druthers III - The Trains. The Model Railroader's Notebook. Operations Night In North Carolina on the Piedmont and Western RR! Electrical wars. Part 12: new turnout parts. The Blue Ridge and White Mountain RR.
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Southern Ry. East S-Line: Operations I - Sample Train Orders
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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Sunday, February 16, 2014. Operations I - Sample Train Orders. Miles from Station Siding Other. 00 West End Sevier Yard - yard. East End Two Tracks). West End Two Tracks). 23 Coster - yard. 46 Black Oak - 56. 82 Powell 104 10. 134 Heiskell - 45. 156 Chestnut Ridge - -. 199 East Siding 116 160. 209 Clinton - yard. 246 Laurel 71 5. 336 Poplar 55 7. 356 Oliver Springs - 15. 361 L and N. Jct., Tenn. - -. 415 Blair 115 50. Made Com...
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Southern Ry. East S-Line: Trains in the Trainhouse!
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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Tuesday, August 5, 2014. Trains in the Trainhouse! Okay, no trains yet, but at least the first piece of the layout. Yes, it's little high, but this is the west end of the west staging yard. There are twelve tracks. Tracks 2 through 11 are stub ended, and Track 1 connects to Track 12 with a loop that goes over a bridge over the other ten. Here's a picture of the top of the staging yard. You can also see some of the 100:1 curren...
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Southern Ry. East S-Line: Layout Construction III - Backdrop & Valance
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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Sunday, February 16, 2014. Layout Construction III - Backdrop and Valance. My backdrops are made using aluminum flashing. This is available in various widths in fifty foot rolls. That long enough to all around the train house with no joints. Here's the finished backdrop with the framing for the valance. Backdrop and Valance Frame. Unpainted Backdrop with some Valance Brackets. And Givens and Druthers II. This will be painted w...
