So ya want a modeling challenge, do ya?

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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CPR tracks in the Fraser River Canyon, at a place called Cisco in British Columbia. I took this image from the Trans-Canada Highway in August.

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Bit too big for me to tackle. One of them N scalers may want to take a crack at it.

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I’d be happy if my store bought cars and locomotives could do more than a few loops around my simple layout without coming apart. Ten or 20 loops and the wheel frames come off. Plows fell off long ago…catwalk handrails falling off… man it’s frustrating.

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look’s like arthills layout[(-D]

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Man! That’s a beautiful scene!! Here’ a challenge for you…

How about a little street running!!

Lee

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That would have to be a huge room to do that scene justice.

Dont I wish though…

Oh, great photo by the way!!

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I have a spot in my master plan that very strongly resembles that.[8D] Unfortunately, it’s on a part of the plan that I had to exclude from my actual construction…[|(]

Many years ago I saw a photo taken from a spot close to yours. Don’t remember what, if anything, was on the arch bridge. There was a steam locomotive showering cinders all over the area (towering exhaust plume!) just entering the first truss span headed toward the camera.[^]

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with more modest bridges)

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Thanks . . . . but no thanks.[:D]

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Yep just as soon as i sign a lease on the Astro Dome

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The tracks look to be the safest part of that street! Once car appears to be double parked while up ahead it looks like two vehicles are playing chicken!

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Actually, a diorama of the CNR’s Cisco bridge was featured in the April and May 2000 issues of Railroad Model Craftsman. The diorama, which is 12’ long, was built by Doug and Jackie Hole, and features mainly the arched bridge and its approaches, plus the immediate surrounding scenery. Some very impressive modelling. I believe that it was also featured in a couple of ads for Overland Models. (In your photo, the CPR bridge is in the foreground, and the train is on the CNR bridge. I believe that the two roads may may sharing tracks here, with one for westbounds and the other for eastbounds.) It would be worth your trouble to order back-issues, if just for the photos.

Wayne

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From the back of the photo to the front.

So is that 3 turnouts to the left. A crossing and a turn out to the right? I assume those are trolley points and not road points?

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From the back to the front:

  • A three-way, joining to the cross track in both directions.
  • A compound ladder with somewhat easier radii, at least FOUR tracks diverging to the left plus the “middle of the street” track, which (I assume) continues.

Definitely traction type turnouts. Note the points on the very bottom of the photo, active point to the right, open point to the left. Note, too, that the flangeways and points are heavily fouled - I suspect that the tracks were long out of service when this photo was taken.

One question. Was this scene photographed in Indianapolis?

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

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Now I see where John Allen got his inspiration . . .