|
Engine #23 pulls the eastbound peddler freight
out of Bobston, and yes, the turnbuckles on that swayback red box car could use a bit of tightening. Engine
#23 pulls the eastbound peddler freight out of Bobston,
and yes, the turnbuckles on that swayback red box car
could use a bit of tightening.
|
|
|
The
North River Railway modern passenger service through Charleston to Bobston. This one is the
pride and joy of the Railroad
|
|
|
Boxton Factory is a kit-bash of four
Revel engine houses and detailed almost exclusively with bits and pieces
from the electronics industry, not modeling parts.
|
|
|
One of
the main industries at Harrietta is Sokol Spoon. The factory is a kit
detailed with several assorted detailing kits.
|
|
|
Bossert Beef and Bologna stockyards and meat packing
plant behind the coal pocket at Harrietta. They all go in but they never
come back out.
|
|
|
The North river ships the engines out for main
overhauls but does what light repairs it can here. An occasional box car
or flat finds its way here to deliver raw materials for repair.
|
|
|
Another view of #23 leaving Bobston after
stopping for water. This is the ruling grade so the engine needs the
tender booster for all the power it can get. The switchstand in the foreground
is actually an electrical switch used to throw the turnout.
|
|
|
Another
overview of Harrietta showing the single-ended classification yard tracks
in the foreground and the corporate office and station to the left.
|
|
|
This Drover caboose is the typical North River Railway passenger service during the
week. Several stations had the typical platform on one side and a
door-level ramp on the other for horses. The term drover meant just that.
Cowboys had to buy a ticket for themselves and one for the horse. This
was kind of the great-grandfather of the car-trains of the east coast
where you take your transportation on the train with you.
|
|
The Sawmill at Timberly (East of Bobston) in the full operation
of making little ones out of big ones. Logs tied to a dolly and hauled
out of the pond to be cut into billets. Toothpicks anyone?
|
|
|
Overview
at Brian Stakehouse (Lumber yard) at Union.
The lumberyard is a super detailed kit, the town to the left is a
combination of kit-bashing Woodland
Scenic and Roundhouse kits
|
|
A little
bit of private industry complements of Joe, the friendly neighborhood
bootlegger.
|
|
|
Overview of downtown Bobston. Looks like they could use
a stop sign at the intersection, doesn’t it?
|
|
|
Passenger
run at Union behind Brian's Steakhouse
on the way West to Bobston. This scratch-built gas doodle-bug was inspired
by a plastic model but built to a composite of wooden cars that existed
as early as 1912.
|
|
