http://www.shorpy.com/node/7451?size=_original
Well, good luck with that. [:O]
[Edited] This should open in a large hi-def image. Go ahead, have a good look. Note the truncated double-slip at extreme lower right corner. Which way are the points lined for trains climbing the ramp towards that turnout? [:O]
-Crandell
[:-^]
Thanks Crandell,
I’ll have that put together by tomorrow morning. Ha Ha ha ha.
WOW. That is impressive, especially for those times.
Twenty six semaphores, four levels, and trackwork that boggles the mind.
Even with just a quarter of that I wouldn’t be able to figure out which to throw for where.
Would love to be able to talk with the YardMaster and Dispatcher of those times in that area.
They must have had some great stories to tell. and it probably all died with them. Darn.
Johnboy out…for now,
Btw - shorpy has a lot of nice RR pictures (about 18 pages worth) - just click on the link “railroad” over the picture. One pretty modelgenic location is the pictures from Duluth in 1905. They also have several of Jack Delano’s excellent color photos of railroads from WW2.
Smile,
Stein
We are gonna need a bigger layout,and more solder!
Holy moley! No wonder I find modeling rural branchlines a lot easier. That can be done without an auditorium-sized room or a bunch of turnout and special trackwork makers.
Mark
Should look great in MR’s “200 track plans you think you can build”, to be published in 2020.
Dennis
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=106433&nseq=27
I also like this yard, The photographer Florian Sindermann had alot of track to pick from.
A yard design highly favored by the folks at Circuitron-Tortoise!
Jim
why do european railroads always look like model train layouts?
grizlump
Because the Franfurt central railwaystation is located in the center of Frankfurt and has about the same space constrains as a model train layout[:)]
btw. It is a dead end station making the one and only side even more complicated.
Did that—no. I don’t think it’ll work on my layout.[:-^]
Never mind the nice spurs on the left side—a little too short, I think—ahern–coff coff
BTW–check the site out guys–you’ll find all kinds of neat stuff on it[^][:P]
WARNING-clicking on the railroad photos link will suck you in for at least an hour.
Those are some great photos, well worth adding to the favorites bar
Wow, That’s one confusing train yard =) I would love to see a model of that. Great pictures also.
Thanks for sharing Crandell =D
I WANT ONE, Daddy. Get me one of those, Daddy–PUH-LEEZE? [:P]
What do you mean I can’t do it on DC? You just watch me Toggle-Switch myself into a Major Coma! [(-D]
Tom [:D]
But–but–but—where would you put all those switches?![(-D]
I can see this now—one garage wall just covered in 'em!![:P][(-D][(-D][(-D]
I need a bigger monitor…
Tom
Barry:
I’ll build an enclosed carport. A BIIIIIIIG enclosed carport. [:P] Hey, I don’t need the CAR to be in it, do I? [(-D][;)]
Tom [swg]
Tom
Gotta love the double slip to nowhere! I wonder if it was new construction, not yet complete, or old track abandoned in place.
That would be a snap in my version of MZL. All the track power would be routed through contacts on the point movers, and those would be controlled with a hot probe, studs and a diode matrix. Piece of cake.
Grizlump, I can’t help but wonder about your, “Foreign railroads,” comment. Last time I looked, Boston’s South Station was in Massachusetts.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
quit wondering, chuck. i was looking at the photo of Frankfort Germany. it was about the 7th post in this thread.
grizlump
Great picture of the way railroading used to be in the good old days. But Crandell, it still doesn’t answer that age old question, “Who’s on first”. I still believe that was the funniest thing that Abbott & Costello ever did and they did a lot of funny stuff.
Blue Flamer.