Grand Scale Freight Yard Aspirations
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Grand Scale Freight Yard Aspirations
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Motive power : 1902 A.S.Campbell 4-4-0 American - 12 5/8" gauge, 1955 Ottaway 4-4-0 American 12" gauge
Ahaha, Retirement: the good life - drifting endlessly on a Sea of projects....
Motive power : 1902 A.S.Campbell 4-4-0 American - 12 5/8" gauge, 1955 Ottaway 4-4-0 American 12" gauge
Ahaha, Retirement: the good life - drifting endlessly on a Sea of projects....
Re: Grand Scale Freight Yard Aspirations
Any idea of this pictures location or are we supposed to figure it out.. Is that a canal on the left side? Kind of unlikely in the era of the picture to be a nice straight highway.
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The picture was on Facebook. It's a yard in, I think, New Jersey. The caption said that was a street next to the yard.
Mike
Former Locomotive Engineer and Designer, Sandley Light Railway Equipment Works, Inc. and Riverside & Great Northern Railway 1962-77
BN RR Locomotive Engineer 1977-2014, Retired
BN RR Locomotive Engineer 1977-2014, Retired
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Re: Grand Scale Freight Yard Aspirations
Wow that’s an extensive rail yard.
Anyone know what the rectangular box vessels with the central square protrusion are?
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Anyone know what the rectangular box vessels with the central square protrusion are?
-AP
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The same photo appears near the bottom of this page with the caption "photography by Andre Kertesz, 1939, in Weehawken, New Jersery".
Near as I can tell from Google maps, Weehawken occupies a small area across the Hudson River from midtown Manhattan. There appears to be a big rail yard along the river a mile or two to the south in Hoboken, but it doesn't seem to match the picture from 1939. A lot could have changed, I guess, in the 83 years since then, or maybe the reference to Weehaken is just wrong.
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Near as I can tell from Google maps, Weehawken occupies a small area across the Hudson River from midtown Manhattan. There appears to be a big rail yard along the river a mile or two to the south in Hoboken, but it doesn't seem to match the picture from 1939. A lot could have changed, I guess, in the 83 years since then, or maybe the reference to Weehaken is just wrong.
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Yep, same pic on FB “Railroad images of bygone days” page
Weehawken, New Jersey, 1939.
“André Kertész (2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Andor Kertész, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism”…
Weehawken, New Jersey, 1939.
“André Kertész (2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Andor Kertész, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism”…
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Motive power : 1902 A.S.Campbell 4-4-0 American - 12 5/8" gauge, 1955 Ottaway 4-4-0 American 12" gauge
Ahaha, Retirement: the good life - drifting endlessly on a Sea of projects....
Motive power : 1902 A.S.Campbell 4-4-0 American - 12 5/8" gauge, 1955 Ottaway 4-4-0 American 12" gauge
Ahaha, Retirement: the good life - drifting endlessly on a Sea of projects....
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That’s a huge yard!
I admit to having spent too much time looking at them on google earth lol
The only caveat, is that you’ll find you’ll run out of real estate rather quickly in grand scale when building a yard, if not run out of $$$ first.
I admit to having spent too much time looking at them on google earth lol
The only caveat, is that you’ll find you’ll run out of real estate rather quickly in grand scale when building a yard, if not run out of $$$ first.
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yeah, let's face it... we're much more likely to be modeling some weed-covered branch line than any major rail hub or yard. building just that in G scale would cost a fortune and take up a whole building. imagine how much real estate it would take in any rideable scale.
I can't imagine the work it took just to keep that yard functional. had to be hundreds that worked there.
I can't imagine the work it took just to keep that yard functional. had to be hundreds that worked there.
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The yard at train mountain is pretty big, but you better have a large budget for switches, and tons and tons of time to build + maintain.
Often yards on many RRs have some of the slightly more "rough " track, is the mainline and passing sidings get the MOW priority.
Often yards on many RRs have some of the slightly more "rough " track, is the mainline and passing sidings get the MOW priority.
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I built a fixture and guides for my turnouts so I’d like to think I could produce them quicker, but there is the points that are always the hard part no matter how you tackle themBerkman wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2022 2:38 pm The yard at train mountain is pretty big, but you better have a large budget for switches, and tons and tons of time to build + maintain.
Often yards on many RRs have some of the slightly more "rough " track, is the mainline and passing sidings get the MOW priority.
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Looks like this yard was the Jersey City Terminal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_R ... y_Terminal
https://www.lhry.org/aerial-photographic-views
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_R ... y_Terminal
https://www.lhry.org/aerial-photographic-views
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I think it's Jersey City too. There is a bluff in Weehawken and so the railroads paralleled the river there.
Those are lighters used to move freight around NY harbor. Areas without carfloat service had freight offloaded in NJ and delivered via these. I don't know why some had the funky cupolas, but they did. There were also carfloats that did not have the cars moved off via a floatbridge, but instead were delivered pier-side and the cars unloaded directly from carfloat to warehouse.Andrew Pugh wrote: ↑Mon Jul 11, 2022 5:47 pm Anyone know what the rectangular box vessels with the central square protrusion are?
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