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Introducing the Washington Northern
Finally have found some time and the ambition to finish my railroad's website. Please feel free to leave any comments and/or suggestions. Hope you enjoy.
Washington Northern Railroad: http://wnrr.net
Seadog Boats & Marine Supply
I recently completed Seadog Boats & Marine Supply, which sits on the tideflats waterfront. It is not served by rail. The basic structure was scratchbuilt as a freight house. I converted it to a waterfront marine supply and fuel dealer by removing the loading dock and scenery base. The piers are leftovers from a Walthers Pier and Traveling Crane Kit with added stripwood bracing and details including the fuel service pipes under the decking. The pilings were weathered to give them a well aged look.
Raven Pulp & Paper
Here are some photos of the Washington Northern Port Andrews District's largest customer, Raven Pulp & Paper. Because of the limited space I've chosen to model more of the main mill structure than the woodchip yard. The main buildings in the back hide the two staging tracks and have been kitbashed out of several Walthers Kits and a lot of scratchbuilding. The mill itself has 3 sidings, one for the chemical unloading area, one for woodchips which will be spotted on one of the tracks running through the center of the mill complex to the "off layout" woodchip yard.
Howell Avenue Bridge
Just thought I'd share an Idea I came up with while building an overpass over the tracks. Just about everyone has at least one of these overpasses spanning the tracks that ends at the edge of the layout. I had previsouly decided not to do one of these again after one was taken out accidently by a visitor on my previous layout. He felt horrible, as did I, besides the fact it was destroyed and had to be rebuilt. I've see these somewhat protected by the facia board rising up to the underside of the bridge at the layout edge, but never really cared for how this looked.
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