Back in the 1870's, when the Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe built north out of Galveston, there was a law on the books of the State of Texas that required any railroad being built to pass within a mile the county court house of every county it built through. The City of Richmond was not too accommodating and did not offer land for a depot to the new railroad building through. So the GC&SF met the "mile" requirements by skirting the edge of town and heading west for a few miles to found a new town named Rosenberg after one of the owners of the railroad. They built a depot there and crossed the Sunset Route to head north again toward Waco. Here the old GC&SF, which was bought out by the ATSF, makes the curve on the west side of Richmond and crosses over Highway 90. The Richmond Cotton Oil Company is behind the bridge.
I inserted ties under the gaps under all the rail joints: I also finished the mainline feeder connections. Last week, crossing the Missouri River here in town:
Hemi has cool clouds. I couldn't buy a cloud that day. One of the few days we have had with a clear sky in the last month.
Happy 4th week/weekend. Just thought I would pop in, say hello and say that these are really great pictures. Done a little work but it has been slow of late.
Atlas Geep and a Uboat do 10 Cars up 6% Around Curve Took about 2 hours of fussing to get the kinks out and a Kato PA would never make it but these ran smooth and slow many times: Grade in rear is 2 percent with long sweeping 28" curves. As you can see it needs a _lot_ of work Likely area for stating inside the mountain that the outer loop will swing around. The cars are fairly heavy Intermountain Beth Gons. I expect I could do 10 Atlas PS1 40' box cars and 10 2 bay covered hoppers. More pictures here: http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/1111
Excellent odelling guys, don't forget this weeks modelling photo challenge is called "Consecutive numbers" Get your cameras out and have some fun in the challenge 72 hour challenge Everybody is welcome to enter and have some fun.
Wide spaces and crisp images, everyone. Good use of backdrops in many cases, too. :teeth: Here is a somewhat atypical view of the yard...from one end, and slightly elevated. Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
my runner up for contest pic eagles at dawn in gray summit cut. and another fuzzy vid of a runby http://s46.photobucket.com/albums/f123/river_eagle/N-Scale/?action=view¤t=8.flv
How 'bout some SAR Dash 9's. When the lease was up on the SAR, Union Pacific put them to work in Oregon.
Honorable Mr. Straw, please don't think of this as a criticism. It is more a "something else you might do" to put one of my pet sights on your great rendition of the scene where the Santa Fe line skirting Richmond passes over the old Highway 59. I really enjoyed seeing your photo contribution. It brought back many memories of the times I used that travel that way from 1966 on, between my TV job in Corpus Christi and my family home in Houston, until the bypass around Rosenberg and Richmond was built. I still take the old "business" route once in a while to see the railroads and old buildings and etc. But there was something special about that scene with the US59 underpass under the Santa Fe as it passed the cotton oil mill. A herd of cows eating grass. No, not really. But along the cotton oil mill was (is it there still?) an array of some kind of ventilators not on top of the building but on the ground... cylindrical barrels-- squirrel-cage type ventilators I guess. Each one had a chute or something running down to the ground at a diagonal. And they were all painted a brownish red. When I was driving with most of my attention on the road, the traffic and a fraction of an eye looking out for a train overhead, those ventilators looked like a herd of cows, all facing the same direction with their heads down grazing on the lush grass. When I actually looked at them, they were actually ventilators, but if I looked back at the road, they were cows again in my peripheral vision. Russ, I am not sure what era you were modeling or if they were there then, but they were sure something I remember about that scene. There was one other example of non-bovine COWS on my trips between Corpus Christi and Houston. On the bypass around the south side of Victoria, from about 1980 until recently when it disappeared, there was a business that serviced the oilfield and had an old steel oil derrick to support its sign. The business was the City Oil Well Service and it was identified on its sign by very large letters with its initials C-O-W-S. If I put that on a layout, someone would probably accuse me of making up a cutesy name.
Scene showing a Hudson Highlands' hot-shot freight pounding the rails westbound one summer afternoon in 1941. As it passes a sidelined peddler freight one crew member acknowledges its passing with a wave. NYW&B
