Oil refinery and seaport on the Bayou City & Gulf RR
The club layout is only a few miles from the Port of Houston where there are numerous oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and container loading and unloading cranes. Naturally the club had to include these on their layout. I know one girl who is a locomotive engineer with the Port Terminal Railway Association and another who works in the huge Shell refinery that occupies an entire square mile. Neither are model railroaders. Another friend from the old N Crowd is a CAD engineering tech who designs oil refinery and petrochemical equipment. She may have done some of the work on some sections of this layout before she moved away from Houston.
Originally the N Crowd was an NTrak modular club from the late 1970's through the '90's. A few years ago they moved to a sectional format that doesn't necessarily follow NTrak specs for interchangeable modules. My home layout during the years 1979-95 used a combination of NTrak modules and custom sections. I sometimes attended N Crowd meetings in the early days and worked on some of the mountain scenery in the '80's. My work hours and National Guard commitments prevented me from being a really active member, but my Santa Fe home layout drew its inspiration from the N Crowd layout.. I took this photo on the Fall Layout Tour on December 4, 2011.
Oil refinery and seaport on the Bayou City & Gulf RR
The club layout is only a few miles from the Port of Houston where there are numerous oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and container loading and unloading cranes. Naturally the club had to include these on their layout. I know one girl who is a locomotive engineer with the Port Terminal Railway Association and another who works in the huge Shell refinery that occupies an entire square mile. Neither are model railroaders. Another friend from the old N Crowd is a CAD engineering tech who designs oil refinery and petrochemical equipment. She may have done some of the work on some sections of this layout before she moved away from Houston.
Originally the N Crowd was an NTrak modular club from the late 1970's through the '90's. A few years ago they moved to a sectional format that doesn't necessarily follow NTrak specs for interchangeable modules. My home layout during the years 1979-95 used a combination of NTrak modules and custom sections. I sometimes attended N Crowd meetings in the early days and worked on some of the mountain scenery in the '80's. My work hours and National Guard commitments prevented me from being a really active member, but my Santa Fe home layout drew its inspiration from the N Crowd layout.. I took this photo on the Fall Layout Tour on December 4, 2011.