Following are fotos of the yard and shops module that represent the town of San Esteban on the Norh Fork mining district branch of the Montezuma, Snake River and Northstar RR. No where near completion, these are progress shots only. Following TOMA principles, I've constructed the first of 2 modules for the yard and town, this one being 8 feet long by 2.5 feet wide with a small peninsula that will hold the Round House and shop area.

Following are fotos of the yard and shops module that represent the town of San Esteban on the Norh Fork mining district branch of the Montezuma, Snake River and Northstar RR. No where near completion, these are progress shots only. Following TOMA principles, I've constructed the first of 2 modules for the yard and town, this one being 8 feet long by 2.5 feet wide with a small peninsula that will hold the Round House and shop area.

Finally got around to finishing my On30 Bachmann 4-4-0 American. #100 represents one of the 2 oldest engines on the MSR&N and is actually the smallest. Once again, as with the 12 spot, she has the short smoke box and Pancake stack, as well as a wooden cab and box style headlight. I added an air resevoir to the rear tender deck and the appropriate plumbing and a cord wood load indicating that "Old Hundred" is a wood burner. The name on the cab side is "MONTEZUMA" for the main terminal of the railroad but the crews all call her "Old Hundred" affectionately. 

This little lokie is relegated to use on the Local Mail run or switching duties around the 9th Street Yard in Montezuma, although still a good steamer, "Old Hundred" is small and light so not much more can she handle. 

She was the first locomotive on the original railroad, the Montezuma & Snake River Railway Co. as their #100 and retained that number when Northstar Mining bought controlling interest in the Railway, renaming it the Montezuma, Snake River & Northstar Railroad. All other locomotives were renumbered into class numbering and acquired motive power filled out those classifications as time and cash allowed, i.e.; #12 is a Mogul 2-6-0 and is in its class as a 10-19 number. Only #100 is in a class by itself. 

Well....that's my story and I'm sticking to it. 

GW

Well, it's been a while since I've posted an update on the goings on at the MSR&N, so here goes; I've been devoting much of my modeling time on various projects while working on the studio/train room. I've worked on a lot of rolling stock and other art projects in the studio but mostly I've been finishing the Mogul project.

Hi all...as promised I have some in progress photos of the 2 On30 steamers that I've been working on lately, as well as the beginnings of the scratch built through truss bridge I alluded to earlier on this blog.

Well, I finally got around to finishing the bashed truss bridge so I thought I'd post photos of it before I store it away until the time comes to build the module it fits into.

Here are some more photos of the bridge from the previous entry...these show the bridge with it's first coat of black paint and before the deck and track was installed.

GW

Hi first time posting here so I hope this works.

I've been working on an On30 railway that will be built as a series of modules and will be installed in a future train room/studio. 

The projected mainline will have 2 through truss bridges, one is a foreground structure that will be scratch built from Evergreen Styrene and Special Shapes as well as other parts suppliers. It will be approximately 86 scale feet long and will be similar to the Silverton's truss bridge across the Animas River in Durango, CO.