What’s the Baltimore & Ohio West 26th Street Station without a rail yard? I had it on my plan from the very beginning but never gave any thoughts how I could fit a few tracks into a limited space. Let alone how I could make it prototypically looking. Some History The Baltimore and Ohio West […]
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Connecting the Third to Eight Floor Module to the Base Having completed the base module with the addition of a ceiling to the mezzanine floor, I now had to find out a way to connect the third to eight floor module on top of it. The cornice above the mezzanine is a good place to
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With the left side of my L-shaped layout now getting more crowded, it was time to move on to another signature building. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Freight Station is at the center of the layout where the two legs of the L meet. I’ll place the building at the northern side of the block,
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Good progress on the block between West 26th and 27th Street along Tenth Avenue forced me to finally think about the elevated section of my layout. With some of the sections of the track leading through already built structure, I also had set a few parameters. Height above surface would be about 42 mm and
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The block between West 26th and 27th Street West of Tenth Avenue was not on my initial list of locations to consider for my Westside Railroad layout. That was until I came across a fascinating archive photo during my research. The photo from 1939 or 1940 was taken from the corner of Tenth Avenue and
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I couldn’t wait building my first structure for my new New York Central Westside Railroad project. By now I had gathered enough experience with scratch-building structures that gave me the confidence to dive into a bigger and more complex project. I planned to make the Terminal Warehouse a signature building on my layout so it
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Before I developed big plans about my new layout, I wanted to validate some of the main design concepts I intended to use. The first one was, how can I scratch-build track embedded in a street? Moreover, how can I build track in a cobblestone (or Belgian blocks, as the type of stone used in
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While the South Bronx had an impressive industrial history with lots of railroad artifacts, it was always dwarfed by what happened in the industrial zones of Manhattan. My shift of focus over time reflects Manhattan’s gravity for railroad history. One of the most fascinating areas for me is West Chelsea with its New York Central
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Ever since I had finished my CNJ Bronx Terminal layout, I was playing with the idea for adding a complementary section with the CNJ’s extension yard on the NW side of Third Avenue Bridge. The plan has never materialized as I would have simply no space for another layout. It would be even bigger than
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You don’t normally connect something to your layout – you build it for your layout so that it fits! That’s not how it worked this time for the swing bridge segment of my Third Avenue Bridge, however. First of all, it was mostly outside of my original layout. Second, with a pre-pandemic plan to move
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