supagav
USA standard gauge in the late 1960's, in 1:29th.
Hi,
We added a little more track work yesterday to the line and I just wanted to share a few photos here of the progress.
We have recently been trying to incorporate more passenger services into our operations schedule and thus we needed some way to simulate the exchange of mail and express cars between Cotton Belt and Southern trains at one of our stations. The solution was to add a short siding for coaching stock which would allow a head end car to be cut out and left for another train heading in the other direction. This would mean that mail and express shipments could be simulated and would allow us to incorporate a little more interest into our local passenger service. These kind of movements help to suggest connections with the rest of the US rail network, and indeed the rest of the world, as mail and express goods can be seen to be coming from larger cities and destinations beyond what we can realistically model in a small Scottish garden!
The following photos are an example of a short two or three coach local passenger train which would be coming from a larger city (off site, represented by a track in the yard in our train shed) and connecting with the outlying stations along our branch line, delivering mainly mail, baggage, parcels and express shipments as well as some light passenger services. In the late 60s passenger service in US was very much a shadow of its former self, with many railroad trying to get rid of their passenger services altogether which just weren`t making enough money to be financially viable. As such our stock is weathered to represent what was once premium passenger equipment now relegated to a menial secondary role.
We are in the process of modelling some Railway Express Agency reefers and some more head end equipment such as RPOs and baggage cars for this new role so I`ll share more photos of these as they progress.
Thanks for looking,
G
We added a little more track work yesterday to the line and I just wanted to share a few photos here of the progress.
We have recently been trying to incorporate more passenger services into our operations schedule and thus we needed some way to simulate the exchange of mail and express cars between Cotton Belt and Southern trains at one of our stations. The solution was to add a short siding for coaching stock which would allow a head end car to be cut out and left for another train heading in the other direction. This would mean that mail and express shipments could be simulated and would allow us to incorporate a little more interest into our local passenger service. These kind of movements help to suggest connections with the rest of the US rail network, and indeed the rest of the world, as mail and express goods can be seen to be coming from larger cities and destinations beyond what we can realistically model in a small Scottish garden!
The following photos are an example of a short two or three coach local passenger train which would be coming from a larger city (off site, represented by a track in the yard in our train shed) and connecting with the outlying stations along our branch line, delivering mainly mail, baggage, parcels and express shipments as well as some light passenger services. In the late 60s passenger service in US was very much a shadow of its former self, with many railroad trying to get rid of their passenger services altogether which just weren`t making enough money to be financially viable. As such our stock is weathered to represent what was once premium passenger equipment now relegated to a menial secondary role.
We are in the process of modelling some Railway Express Agency reefers and some more head end equipment such as RPOs and baggage cars for this new role so I`ll share more photos of these as they progress.
Thanks for looking,
G
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