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which might be the understatement of the year. he built an addition on his house for them. this is a new bridge he has added. i can't even explain the detail...it's amazing.
Grand Central turns 100 in 2013 and the New York Transit Museum is starting the party early with its 11th Annual Holiday train Show! In a brand new layout built by Lionel, model Metro-North and New York Central trains depart from a miniature GCT on a 34' long two level "O" gauge layout. Vintage model trains from the Museum's collection and New York Central Railroad posters from the 1920s – 1940s are also on display.
The show, at the Transit Museum's annex at Grand Central, runs from November 21, 2012, through February 10, 2013.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
There is a certain appeal that railroad tracks have for my brain. I think it's the symmetry of the precisely gauged rails that can simultaneously flow in graceful arcs. There is also a metaphor in that vision, but I haven't been able to identify it definitively. Any ideas?
Half-inch scale.
Picture taken at the Railex, an annual model train exhibition held around the Wellington Region.
Macro photography.
Grand Central turns 100 in 2013 and the New York Transit Museum is starting the party early with its 11th Annual Holiday train Show! In a brand new layout built by Lionel, model Metro-North and New York Central trains depart from a miniature GCT on a 34' long two level "O" gauge layout. Vintage model trains from the Museum's collection and New York Central Railroad posters from the 1920s – 1940s are also on display.
The show, at the Transit Museum's annex at Grand Central, runs from November 21, 2012, through February 10, 2013.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Personal note; For me this was the highlight layout on Eurospoor 2013 Exhibition. I love this theme; heavy industrialised tracks. But unluckely I made the worst photos ever just of this layout. I normally photograph all layouts without flashlight but then the layout must have good lightning. This one, surprising, didnt have. Though I don't want to hide these pics and after some photoshop work, here they are!
JANUARY ’68 is somewhat unusual as a layout as it depicts a “point in time” rather than a particular geographical location, namely the first month of the last year of BR steam operation. This period was synonymous with the modernization which brought decline and depravation to not only the railways but also to the industrial landscape which had served Britain for almost 150 years.
Originally constructed by North East modeller Alan Lister, the award winning layout was exhibited throughout the country and also featured in the June 1997 edition of Modelling Railways Illustrated. Following a chance conversation with the owner, who revealed that the layout was going to be retired and dismantled, it was rescued by members of the Blackpool & North Fylde MRC, and given a new lease of life. The layout has now been returned to the exhibition circuit with a new fiddle yard and is slowly being detailed with additional features such as lighting and additional electronics.
It shows a fictitious location somewhere in the industrial heartland of North West England, one of the last bastions of BR steam, where dwindling numbers of rusting and work stained steam engines continue to serve the local industries alongside the newer diesels which, in just a few short months, will ultimately oust them from the rails forever.
Depravation and decay are evident with rusting loco’s awaiting their final journey to the scrapyard, as the full weight of the 1963 Beeching Report begins to bite with lines closing and derelict stations and railway infrastructure being slowly dismantled and removed.
Although fictitious in location there are a few references to actual locations and some of the buildings are based on, or inspired by, structures which can still be found to this day.
The double track mainline on the low level is being remodeled, work which should have been completed over the Christmas and New Year period, however snow has delayed the work and a continuing permanent-way possession means that only one of the running lines is available, hence the bidirectional running and presence of a number of “flag men” to control the flow of trains.
Somewhat surprisingly one of the rooms contains a model train set. I spotted a notice on a door part way up a spiral staircase. Two men were there adjusting the O gauge track.
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A visit to Emerald Farms, Greenwood, S.C.
You could spend a day watching the model trains and looking at all the model buildings, cars, etc,, if there wasn't so much else to do.
Further to the south lays the old town of White River. The morning coal train rumbles through town bringing empties to the mines in the hills.