Hedley-Junction Layout

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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I feel like the club’s actual layout, although being at the early stage, reach that point of no return. Things have settled down in more than 3 years of experimentation and we matured a little bit, shrinked the space and scaled down our ambition to our capacities. And you know what, getting smaller just increased the fun… Most trackage is operational thought temporary of many sections. We thought it would be a good way to keep the interest if we could operate as soon as possible. This also allowed us to revised our design process and check our decision in real time. Three operation session have been done in the last weeks with great success. In fact, it was far better than first anticipated. Trains have goals, destination, purpose…

We also decided to concentrate our efforts on a specific period, September 1957. In Quebec City, dieselization was almost completely done by 1956… Just a few branchlines still operated steam engines in the area but it was definitively the end. And the new elevated highway shadowing the yard is there to remind us a new era is coming. The layout will also be used for early 60’s with CN Wet Noodle diesels since the area didn’t change a lot in this decade.

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Prototype: Quebec City’s Canadian National Limoilou Yard and Lairet Subdivision (about 1½ mile squeezed on a U-shaped shelf (18" to 28") built around a 18" x 14" room.

So here are a few photo reports of what we’ve done until now.

http://hedley-junction.blogspot.com/2010/12/layout-walk-through.html

http://hedley-junction.blogspot.com/2010/12/cnr-429s-first-day-of-operation.html

Feel to check the blog.

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Excellent work! I especially like the Dufferin-Montmorency elevated highway.

A lot of similarities to my own layout. Looking forward to more progress pics!

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Hi Aralai,

Thanks, that’s right, our layouts are about the same size and quite similar. I think it’s a manageable size to get enough operationnal fun. And with the GO Transit, I think it will keep you busy on yours… You’ve got a very interesting little project. Not to much crowded, just enough to get the feel of the place.

I’ll probably had a passenger train as a run through, but won’t push it too much because Palace Station would be a real pain to model and would take too much space!

I’m curious, where did you get your nice CNR Courtesy & Service bridge. Is it custom-made or out of the box?

Matt

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I believe it was an Atlas Plate Girder bridge and I used a Dremel to cut off the sides and use them as the bridge I needed was on a slight curve. I don’t see the CN one on their site, but my hobby store had that one and the green one that is also on my layout with the modern CN logo.