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Vignettes Along The Branch Line (1)

 

VIGNETTES ALONG THE BRANCH LINE  

A storybook tour through time and scale along our sectional O Scale 2 Rail Longmont Terminal & Northern Model Railway. Photography by me, modeling by several of us of the http://coloradooscale.org 

These are all 1/48 scale O scale models 

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WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONGVIEW  

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Early Spring snow near downtown Longview on Railroad Avenue. 

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Railroad Avenue 

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US85 fresh snow on Long's Peak

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Pratt Street 

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Along US 85

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johnson's Mobil Service, have a Coke!

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US 85

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Railroad Avenue 

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Railroad Avenue and West Main Street

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Corner of East Main and Pratt Street. The First Bank Grain Exchange Building

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Main Street downtown Longview 

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The Charred Rib Steak House 

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Johnson's Service and the newly built McDonald's Hamburger Drive In. 

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The Shapiro Building fine apartments and Clothiers

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Youth cruising the west end of Longview on US85

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RURAL BOULDER COUNTY

 

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Colorado Front Range farm

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Pumpkin harvest found on one of the many farmers market stands 

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Detouring Rio Grande Prospector 

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Bountiful gardens 

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M68 with a heavy northbound manifest 

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Local with fuel oil, heating oil, and kerosene immediately behind a Rio Grande Consolidation 

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Local manifest frieght passes by a cornfield nearing harvest

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Concrete Stave Silo

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Farmers market 

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Preparing for harvest 

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 Some of the business and customers along the Branch Line 

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Longview Mill and local Royal Baking Powder distribution 

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Coaling tower that will soon be in use on the railroad 

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I sincerely hope you enjoyed this tour through time and scale of our sectional model railroad the Longmont Terminal & Northern Branch Line 

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CONNECTING LINES WITH NEIGHBORING CLASS 1 RAILROADS

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the High Plains Route

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