trumptrain posted:pennsyfan posted:trumptrain posted:
Great looking scenery Patrick, I can't wait to get started on mine. Jahn's ! You just brought back a ton of memories from the 50s!
Thanks so much Bob! I greatly enjoy the scenery aspect of model railroading. Jahns as I understand it was a small chain of sweet shops in Queens and Long Island? I would have liked to have sampled their delights many times over, however, I missed out because I grew up in Maryland. However, running trains always brings back wonderful memories from everything from Christmas season, to walking along the B&O mainline and branch line in the summer when I was a kid .... ahhh, the aroma of creosote in the summer!
Patrick,
Yes Jahn's Ice Cream Pallor originated in Queens, NY and did expand into Brooklyn and LI; however they were never the same as the original.
One actually opened in my neighborhood in Brooklyn (Marine Park) when I was a teenager, my excitement was quickly dampend; but I did take my girl out to the original several times.
Living in the city, I didn't get to see many trains; althogh I do recall riding in my Dad's car as a youngster down along the East River waterfront. There were tracks in the pavement, and my dad had to pull to the side as a steam engine bared down on us with a few boxcars in tow. There was another spot near my Grandmothers where the Long Island railroad freight line ran from the East River through Brooklyn and Queens in a cut. At McDonald Ave they would switch out cars onto the trolley tracks. I remember waiting for the trolley and watching a steam engine pushing freight cars down the street. The last action that I saw there was when they offloaded subway cars from a barge and a diesel pulled them down the trolley tracks all the way to the Coney Island subway yards.
Those memories led me to install EZ Streets on my layout and create a connection to an O Gauge loop. I also installed two EZ switches with short sidings; one to deliver an auto carrier to the Ford dealer and the other to deliver a Robert's Meats reefer to a butcher shop. Its still all a work in progress.
