Hi Everyone,
I am trying to find a layout that was a MR project layout. It was an urban switching layout, used a GE 44 tonner, and I belive it was actually part of a larger layout that may have been featured in a Great Model Railroads. I think that it was in issues newer than 1998.
Thanks,
Jim
Im not sure, but could it be Turtle Creek, or Rogue Bluffs
I know those layouts, Rogue Bluffs is set in a Maine Seaport, and Turtle Creek is actually a 4x8, with an extension added later as a seperate article. This one is set in a more down town type of theme.
Thanks,
Jim
I know which layout you mean, it wasn’t one of the Kalmbach project layouts. I can’t think of the name of the guy, but I have the “Great Model Railroads” video on it at home!! He has a very large layout modelling the Erie RR c.1948, but it was mostly all mainline running with few industrial sidings, so he added a section of urban ‘street running’ along the walls in one corner of the layout room to create more freight traffic. It’s essentially like a separate layout connected to the main layout with a removeable section.
Yes, that is the one. I do think they did a series of articles on it several years before it was in Great Model Railoads. I don’t know, guess I will keep looking.
Thanks,
Jim
It’s the “Union Freight Railroad”. I did a quick search of the Allen Keller site…It was John Pryke’s layout, and it’s the New Haven not the Erie that is the mainline. [:)]
I did a search on “John Pryke” in the Model Railroader magazine website, came up with many links including one under “project layouts” that said:
"Union Freight
Built by John Pryke, this layout project was featured in four parts from the Sept 2000 through Dec 2000 issues of MR. This urban switching railroad, based on the Union Freight RR in Boston, features prototypical city street operation. "
Check this out too:
Thanks! Thats it.
Jim