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For those of us who traveled to York this week the weekend started today. Since I have been walking all day; I'll start the photos instead of worrying about them tomorrow. This is WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!

Two weeks ago I started a standard gauge layout in the basement of the VMT. The club has rooms with HO, On30 , N and O Gauge layouts. As a part of this they allowed me to use a 25 year old O-Gauge train table to create a tinplate layout. This is what I am starting with.IMG_9876IMG_9877IMG_9878

I promised the club members a "multi-gauge" layout with the outer loop of O and Standard combined.

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I still have a long way to go on my multi-gauge track. Joshua always want to run trains before we leave, so I put the remaining track back to together to do some test runs.

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Let's see your pictures

Scott Smith

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Happy Friday!!

NS 13R heads through Reidsville, NC on the Danville District with SD70ACe 1104 leading
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NS Dash-9 9876 leads 51X westbound through Christiansburg, VA
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UP SD70M 5132 leads NS 927 southbound through Gretna, VA on the Danville District
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A pair of classics - EMD SD40-2 diesels & N&W signals at Radford, VA. NS 3214 is working the yard w/ local turn V39. 
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Strasburg 90 steams past the shops as it prepares to pull the first passenger train of the day
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Some pics of Lucia & Lorenzo at the RRMP - 

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3 photos taken from the fireman's side of the cab-control coach of the New Mexico Railrunner. These photos are not of great quality, but the files are big enough to zoom to get better detail.  The photos show some of the last remaining searchlight signals in the ABQ area.

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I haven't sat on the left side since late 1982...it sure felt good.

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A trip to Western Maryland this week, at least in my head.  Frostburg, MD  turntable. 

Relatively light weight turntable dates to 1935 .    Concrete pit is much newer than 1935.  

The grade from the number (9) switch location up to the Frostburg station is steep, all the old steam power and a GP30 diesel pusher could do on wet, leaf slippery, tracks.   

Interesting to note that behind the turntable is an old C & P tunnel.  (Cumberland and Pennsylvania RR.)  under the city of Frostburg. 

 Turntable was probably added as part of the tourist railroad, IMO.   

Though a lot of work has been done on the track, It appears to be relatively light weight track .   This rail has been replaced. 

Note that you have access to the entire right-of-way, the Railroad co-exist with the Great Allegheny Passage bike/hike trail.  You can load your bike, or a rental, from a Cumberland bike shop, in the baggage car, unload Frostburg, and bike back to Cumberland. 

Even more impressive, you can bike to the Continental divide, several miles north, the small village of Deal.   The world gets pretty remote at this point.  Down, down the trail, in Pennsylvania, next town is Meyersdale, PA.   

It is a bit of a climb, even at 2% or less grades. 

There are lights in the Big Savage tunnel, another impressive part of the bike trail. The tunnel should be opening soon, closed during cold winter months. 

Having biked this trail several times, Old, foggy head can picture the large coal drags that made the tunnel, and continental divide.  IMO  Huge, Huge investment would be a tourist railroad between Cumberland, MD and Meyersdale, PA.  

The bike trail  has international exposure/fame and sees visitors from all over this small floating rock in space.

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REALLY like the Erie stuff. That HAS to be one of the classiest schemes ever conceived.

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                                  Need MTH to offer this to go with them.......................

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Here are some photos of the museum and layout at the Red Lion Area Historical Society in Red Lion, PA, a few miles from York.  They held open houses on Thursday and Friday for any York TCA members that wanted to visit.  You really need to see the layout in person because of all the nicely detailed scenes on it.

This is a great little museum that needs more volunteer members.  If you live in the area, check them out. 

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The Casey Jones Hi Railers have been hard at work building a trestle bridge on the outside line of our layout. Today we completed one side of the bents for the trestle that will lead to an inverted girder bridge that will span our planned water feature.

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Mike scribed the stone for the wall behind the trestle by hand into a sheet of blue styrofoam - see above.

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Here is Mike, our architect and head engineer in charge, adding a capstone to the top of the wall behind the trestle.

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We hope to install the bents for the other side of the trestle tomorrow. The inverted girder bridge has not been built yet, let alone installed. We will span the gap for the inverted girder bridge with a 1X4 in order to allow us to run trains on the outside loop next Saturday during our Memphis Model Railroaders open house.

Sunday April 22nd

Mike and Nep returned today and finished installing the second set of bents for the trestle. A temporary span was put in place where the inverted girder bridge will eventually be installed. Here are some pictures from today.

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If you are in the Memphis area next Saturday please come by and see us. We will have operating layouts in Z, N, HO, O and G scales. Go to

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for information about our open house.

Hsve good week and safe travels to those of you headed home from York.

 Thanks,

Richard and the Casey Jones Hi Railers 

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