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Horseshoe & Cottonwood Update #2
This weekend was another whirlwind of construction on the H&C. The second peninsula went in and subroadbed was graded up through the first switchback in Lubkin Canyon.
On the plus side:
I was able to keep the grade down to 2-2.5% which seems to be about it for blackstone HoN3 locos with any decent size consist in tow.
Shoving platforms at HIP
Some photos of one of the shoving platforms used at Highland Industrial Park. This one is a Bluford Transfer Caboose weathered by a good friend Seven Williams but it is currently out of action with a faulty truck
Since it has been weathered the screw hold the one truck on doesn't want to go back in square.
The shoving platforms are used due to the limited view round the sharp curve as the train is pushed under the Hw17 bridge from the yard.
JB-3 in action
Due to track work on the LV main, JB-3 crawls at reduced speed on the old CNJ main. The parallel LV bridge makes a good photo spot.
Highland Industry Park Florida
Hi all
I'd like to introduce you to my Highland Industry Park
hers a link to the latest YouTube update
and its Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Florida-Highland-Railroad/641156309317261
Layout #7
Well the Dames Point Railroad was removed and briefly replaced with an N scale layout. But I discovered N scale was just too small so I sold all of that and I am back in HO. Unfortunately I sold ALL of my HO stuff so I am now starting from scratch on layout #7. Hopefully this is the last one.
Jul 2015 Act I - Lewis County model railroad club
What's the perfect location for a model railroad? The Lewis County Model Railroad Club's layout operates in the baggage room of the hundred-year-old Chehalis station, beside a BNSF mainline. Watch now ...
Layout Update: End of June 2015 - Part 3
The staging level had been completed and running for several months and I had been inching along on the main level due to a lot of diversions to my time in the layout building. But now, I have finally been making some progress on getting a major portion of the visible part of the layout in working condition.
Two Videos of Brian Pate's HOn3 Klondike Mines and Standard gauge CPR layouts
Brian Pate has long loved the industrial architecture of the Klondike, specifically the sternwheelers, dredges, placer equipment and railways used during the gold rush. He and his wife Margaret have visited the Klondike on information expeditions many times and this research has helped him create the beautiful models of his Klondike Mines Rwy. Brian used artistic license and both set the KMR after world war II – long after the original KMR had ceased operations – and also to imagine a world where the
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