ONR train sets on GO
Posted: April 21, 2012 Filed under: Commuter Rail, GO Transit | Tags: cn, GO Transit, onr 2 Comments »This was a mystery I’d been curious about for some time and I would have never made any headway on it were it not for the Eric Gagnon. Wilfred Sergeant notes in his e-book Building GO-Transit that the reception for commuter trains into Toronto exceeded expectations and during GO’s first years they found themselves scrambling to find enough equipment to carry these extra passengers. Part of this solution in the form of two train sets borrowed from Ontario Northland. Check out the picture on the railpictures.net website (beware their pop-ups):
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1422909
Check out those GO logos! Given that the ONR themselves actually got the car from the Norfolk and Western it shouldn’t be too hard to find a model suitable for painting and detailing if one was so inclined. Now that we’ve got a picture of the coach, how’s about a train itself:
http://newviarailbook.blogspot.ca/2012/04/go-figure.html
Eric’s blog post, linked above, describes the train consist and shows a complete train starring a CN GP40, CN steam generator and a string of the ONR coaches. It’s a real classic and a stark contrast to the then brand new GP40TC’s and single-level coaches featured elsewhere on GO trains. Speaking of that contrast, we know that GO equipment was intended to run as push-pull sets. I wonder if these borrowed sets ran similarly or the engines ran around at the end of the route?
Seabury Town – O gauge model railway layout action figures -YouTube
Posted: April 19, 2012 Filed under: Random Thoughts Leave a comment »Neat animation idea for model railway. Given the small size if these figures the motion’s quite nice.
Check out this video on YouTube:
/chris
Tempo RS-18m #3152 in GO service
Posted: April 16, 2012 Filed under: Random Thoughts 6 Comments »I was reading the article on CN RS-18′s in CN Lines Volume 13, number 1, issue 46. I’m a fan of the Tempo RS-18′s and really enjoyed the article. I saw this notation in the article: “#3152 (ex-3856) Leased to GO Transit during October 1982.”
I’m a pretty big fan of GO Transit so this is one heck of a fun Easter egg to read in the article. This is the first time I’ve seen this reference and I’d sure like to know more about 3152 in service for GO. Was it borrowed with a Tempo train set or used with GO cars? I assume it wasn’t in GO service long but I’d sure like to see a picture if it were ever possible.
Anyone out there ever catch the 3152 in GO service? I’d sure like to hear from you. Thanks!
PEIR Fredericton today
Posted: April 15, 2012 Filed under: Borden Subdivision, Fredericton, PEI Railway, structures Leave a comment »The same day as I photographed the Royalty Junction station I also had the good fortune to check in on Fredericton. As I’ve no doubt mentioned before Fredericton holds a special place in my heart. Fredericton station was the first building I ever measured and prepared a set of “as found” drawings for. That event was shared with a great friend and I was really lucky to be in the company of another on this trip. I just can’t get off the social aspect of this great hobby.
I try to get out to Fredericton at least once a season to check in what’s fast becoming an old friend. The station itself is completely neglected and now it appears that it’s entered that period where it doesn’t look like it’ll survive another storm. I’m very committed to saving things but if you’re not going to take care, use and enjoy what you’ve saved it’s hard to justify the act. I’d been saving the photos from this latest trip to put together as a montage with some others I’ve taken over the years. If it’s not already packed for our upcoming move I was also going to include a scan of those sketches I made over twenty years ago. I made those sketches while waiting for a Borden-bound train to crawl through town.
..wait a second, “crawl through”. Nope, I’m not being entirely true. That train was being piloted by none other than the man himself: Vic Bowlan. If you know why that name is significant than you know why I felt compelled to edit my own statement. Since I should be packing up the apartment these days and spending less time online I’m just not getting around to the post I had intended to create, so here’s the photos and the commitment to do something better soon. I’ll get that drawing online too.
Cheers
New blog: The Mighty Diesel Whine
Posted: April 15, 2012 Filed under: Random Thoughts 2 Comments »“Model and Prototype Railroading – Atlantic Canada Style” is the sub-title for this blog and that’s about all the sales pitch I needed to read, knowing that this blog belongs to a really great fellow Island modeller and railfan makes it all that much better.
I tripped across Taylor’s work on his Youtube channel (check out: tjmfishing). Do check it out, you’ll be glad you did.
We’re super busy trying to get the apartment but I’m glad for having taken a few minutes to start reading through his posts. I’m looking forward to checking it out again soon:
http://themightydieselwhine.blogspot.ca/
One of many
Posted: April 14, 2012 Filed under: Random Thoughts 5 Comments »
I’m almost scared to look inside. That’s pretty much a box of models each carefully wrapped to protect them from damage. I’ll admit that flood water from the upstairs apartment is pretty much not what I expected when I was wrapping these models in paper towel. Papier maché imprints of N scale trolleys anyone?
The Otter Park Loop diorama is to the left. The structures and other models to finish it are stored in the box underneath. Scared to look…
It never rains but sometimes…
Posted: April 14, 2012 Filed under: Random Thoughts 4 Comments »..your upstairs neighbor’s washing machine breaks and makes a hard decision easier. Just about everything I have collected for the hobby is carefully packaged and stored on shelving in my pantry. It doesn’t look like much of a collection but I’ve always been proud of it. This morning I awoke to find the entire pantry soaked. I just couldn’t find the source of the leak until I looked up. There’s a special way a plaster ceiling looks when it’s full of water and there’s just nothing else that looks quite like it.
So it’s not quite the packing I thought I’d be doing this morning as we get ready for the move to the new house. In fact it’s pretty damned heart-breaking.
What’s even more heart-breaking is knowing that the neighbour who lives above me didn’t even have the decency to let me know they’d had a flood in their unit and to warn me of what to look out for. They just prayed I’d never find out. I have one box of N scale traction parts that I’m just terrified to look inside of.
Sorry for the rant. Just had to blow off some steam and use a few minutes to gain enough composure to figure out what to do next.
Royalty Junction Station today
Posted: April 13, 2012 Filed under: Borden Subdivision, PEI Railway, Royalty Junction 8 Comments »Of all the places along the Prince Edward Island Railway, Royalty Junction remains a close favourite. I recently had a great opportunity to photograph the station as it remains today. It was moved from it’s original location to it’s current home in Greenvale, PEI in the early 1980′s. Soon after being moved the new owners added a second storey. Except for that change much of the building remains exactly as it was and it is an excellent resource for studying the construction of a typical PEIR station. I thought I’d take a minute and share some of the many photographs I took of the station that evening. Stay tuned, I’ll be completing a drawing of this station and I’ll post that here as soon as it’s done.
Old Nantucket Central Railroad Station MA Reproduction Postcard – eBay
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/chris
Lanyon Valley Electric and the Marion River Carry Railroad
Posted: April 12, 2012 Filed under: Random Thoughts Leave a comment »This is what’s so great about being a part of a community. Today I was the fortunate recipient of a couple of great comments left on recent posts.
Lanyon Valley Electric
http://trevs-tramway.blogspot.ca/
This link is to a gentleman in Australia who is building a large scale, 45mm gauge, model tramway outdoor. From the pictures he has some of the Bachmann cars and I think I’ve seen one of those neat Accucraft San Fransisco cable cars. I’d really like to have one of the Bachmann cars and have been trolling the web looking for a dead one to rebuild…someday. The real gem on the blog is the trackwork. He’s handbuilding all the trackwork and it looks fantastic. It looks like recycled LGB rails on printed circuit board ties. He’s assembled some fantastic single-point switches too. It looks like he’s going to pave the line with individual cobbles. It’s a lot of work but the photos show it will really be worthwhile when it’s all done. Great stuff, I’m so glad to have had this blog shared with me. I’ll add a link to it here on this blog over in the Tramways section.
Marion River Carry Railroad
This little portage railway was built up in New York’s Adirondack mountains and was like a standard gauge version of the Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway line. It too was only about a mile in length and featured a rolling stock roster that was so similar down to the recycled streetcars for passenger cars. Also in common with the Lake of Bays Railway almost all of the line’s rolling stock has been preserved and could be easily visited today. There are some websites out there to check out but one of the best I’ve seen so far is S. Berliner III’s site:
http://sbiii.com/marionrv.html
Thanks guys for taking a few minutes to share these suggestions. I really appreciate it!
Steve Lynch's Long Island Rail Road pages
