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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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My original "Vignettes Along the Branch Line" thread was really drifting off course and I felt it lost its purpose so I combined the last several months posts into one photo album. I am still building this story and will continue adding to it. I do appreciate comments you've all made and hope you still find enjoyment in this. Thanks OGR this is a fun place. 

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While on the subject of snow and inclement weather how about this...

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In the 1940's Santa Fe E6 #12L with the Chief connecting service for Denver heavy in head end businsss blasts through a typical March blizzard. 

 

The model is a Key Model Imports E6 ATSF #12L. Pecos River Brass Fishbelly 70' baggage is also pictured on the Longmont Terminal and Northern layout. 

It is too bad the resolution on the uploads is so low. This was a huge file.. I could host off OGR; I would rather not. 

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pennsynut posted:

Superb modeling. You are blessed with such artistic and photographic skills and no detail is too small to include. Thanks for posting the great photos.

Thank you fellas, all that cold snow makes me want to warm things up a bit with some classic Alco PA action on the Moffat near Leyden Siding, next stop Denver Union Station with today's California Zephyr. Well maybe not today; more like early Spring 1955 or 1956. 

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Track speed between Rocky and Arvada is roughly 40-45mph... I think #6001 is hitting it pretty close to that mark.

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Industrial Models posted:

Fantastic work Eric! What I would give to be able to duplicate natural lighting on the layout. Your aye nation to detail and getting the colors right is truly inspirational. Your TOFC post last spring inspired me to add one to the lineup which is still a work in progress. Keep me coming!

 

Industrial Models thank you very much for the kind words. I'm flattered and like you we both share a high enthusiasm for this sort of thing in our hobby. My gracious thanks and kudos. 

OMG talk about memories "Johnsons"? If the office was on the right vs left it would be me attending the pumps. (though the pumps would be a bit newer) I hung out bothering that old coot till he put me to work. Tips only as he fake slept always afraid he'd get busted for allowing an under age kid to be there. I was twelve at best, but tenacious about earning money. I must have drove half a dozen store owners nuts trying to earn money. He was a softy

Great work Eric!  Is the McDonald's the MTH model or was it built from a kit?  Are the pictures of the mill and baking powder factory pre-installation on the layout.  The backgrounds don't appear to be backdrops on a layout, they look like the photos were taken outside against the real sky.  Ditto some of the farm shots.  The backgrounds look so good they are either excellent backdrops or maybe even photoshopped for the album.  Either way the modelling in front of those backgrounds is tremendous.  Only the extreme close-ups give it away.

I would like to mention some love I have for the O Scale Hauler... these boxes are fantastic. I loaded up nearly $23,000 worth of rare brass models and hauled them up in the mountains on Saturday and moved from one location to another and these Haulers are such a god send. The models often times detailed sit on the wheels and can be lifted out with a cradle of ReBoxx poly wrap. Fabulous boxes Doug! Thanks! 

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Really great looking stuff, Erik.

Somewhere on your layout, though, you ought to have a sign advertising Duffy's Delicious Drinks. Really popular in Colorado years ago. They made some of the oddest flavors of soda pop around and when everything else was selling for dime, you could buy theirs for nine cents (wotta deal) Almost every grocery, cafe or service station had it available.

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p51 posted:

Nice!

Will this be available to the public?

I was doing this book looking for a promotional piece for display browsing at shows where we couldn't set up the entire layout for display. It is possible down the road in the future to use it as a fund raising tool after we establish the IRS details for the Colorado O Scale Modelers first.

I have made some improvements to the book see below. 

As far as selling copies I can sure have one printed for anyone that would be willing to pay for the actual print costs. I will sell them through my own art business under my name.

Sadly due to the limited number of prints I'm doing it's more expensive than a typical book published in the 1000's of copies. Nontheless I would be honored if anyone would want to buy a copy. 

 

 

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The most recent edit of the project. I think it will be a good conversation piece for me at the events or a great Christmas gift for anyone on my list that likes model trains and or model photography.  As a film maker and visual artist my gamut of friends are varied in their interests however we all share a interest in the visual media. The book is 11x14" hard cover with a dust jacket, a typical coffee table book. 

 

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