MNCW posted:Joseph Frank postedI barely remember the Dec 26 1947 Blizzard but I do remember a number of significant snowstorms in NY City from 1950 and onward. I rode the 3rd Ave El in a few -- my last large snow storm EL ride was one in the late winter of 1954 - - likely the last such Snow storm the EL had to deal with, heh, before it closed in Manhattan on Thurs 5-12-1955.
Regards !! - Joe F
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BELOW ----- View Northwest on the N/B E.166th Street local Station, Bronx 3rd Ave. EL, with a layup train of IRT Composite express train cars stored on center express track
BELOW ---- North at N. end of 3rd Ave EL uptown E. 76th Street Station platform to rear MUDC car of a N/B local headed to (my station) the E.84th Street Station in distance, up the 7 block long steep hill !
BELOW -- View N/E at north end of the 3rd Ave EL South Ferry Terminal Station center-island platform to the rear MUDC Car of a northbound departing 3rd Ave EL local.
BELOW ---- North from north end of the Uptown E.76th Street Local Station on the 3rd Ave El towards a S/B local of IRT EL MUDC cars having departed the E.84th St. Local Station in distance, heading south to the E.76th St Local Station
Joe,
Hope you are well. Great pictures. Since your subway modeling is superb as far as use of shadows, did you ever attempt a snow scene?
Tom
Hello Tom !!
Good to hear from you. I am doing OK -- fairly well considering at this (heh) stage of my life -- still modeling and working here and there on the layout.
SNOW SCENES !!?? I sort of wondered about doing so and did a lot of research modeling wise on it, Thus, Heck No !!
REAL SNOW melts and disappears (evaporates) doing no damage to prototype structures and materials (developed to withstand outdoor weather and "water-snow-moisture") However, whatever available type of snow-replicating material (except that white cotton fluff stuff) would be used to cover my El tracks, building roofs, streets, sidewalks, autos, etc., ... for photography or otherwise -- it would be one heck of a nightmare to remove it all from the tracks, El structure crevices and nooks, basically ANY crevices, crannies and nooks, heh.
And REAL SNOW - ie; taken into the train room from a raging (heh) snow storm outside in the real world - would be too "thick" of consistence as well as melt more quickly and wreak havoc and damage to any cardstock or paper created modeled items ..as well as to my street materials !
I have thought of doing a few trolley modules (suburban type) with "permanent" snow as part of the trackside scenery landscape. These two modules would be kept attached together if they went to trolley shows. I may look into that in the near future.
But, for my El and trolley system and its, heh, " trackside city", its always either night (lights off) or daytime sunny dry mild weather (lights on) -- with no worries about wind, rain, snow, sand storms, hurricanes or tornadoes, heh (except God forbid, "outside" the house / trainroom.)
Good to hear from you again Tom -- have to get together in Yonkers for a day !
Regards - Joe F
