Category: Industries and Action
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Trained Penguins
Here is a little, light fun story. In keeping with the penguin and cold storage theme I accidentally found a couple oversized penguins in a novelty store that I thought I could get some mileage from. Detailing fodder can turn up in all kinds of places. My story has it that the owner of…
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Shipping John Deere Tractors 2009
I always get excited when seeing farm tractors moving on the railroad. This is probably due to my close association with them as a youth. As my friends and I were rail fanning the PRR Horse Shoe Curve last June, standing on the mainline overlook at Cassandra Pa., waiting for our pizza, an eastbound…
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Hopper Door Jammed
I thought I would try making a scene that will speak to the camera and tell a story without using any words. Let the observer use his imagination. Here is an example: On second thought, maybe I should fill in the details. This car of gravel had been at the unloading conveyor on…
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Last Passenger Service Leaves Hillton
The Yardley and Hillton RR like most railroads got out of the passenger hauling business after everyone got automobiles. Passenger service by this time had diminished to just a single combined passenger/baggage/caboose on the daily except Sunday mixed train. Here is a photo of what may have been the last passenger train to…
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Lading Service
On a small layout, small industries are more important than big ones. I have a small industry that takes up practically no real estate. This phantom loading service industry has no building or loading dock at all. The owner just works off the tail-gate of his pickup truck removing old blocking etc. from gondola…
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Scenes in Holden City
Holden Bank Scene Here is a scene found in downtown Holden City almost any day of the week. The time is shortly after 9AM. Folks are coming to the bank. The bank building has smooth polished marble facing, made by printing the homemade graphic on glossy photo paper. No two of those multiple colored…
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Hillton Engine House
I used to have a two stall engine house that fits over the two tracks here, but I like using a single stall house because the service track alongside can have some scenery tidbits and an occasional carload of fuel or supplies. The locos are both custom decorated. The yellow Athearn SW7 Western Railway…
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Unloading John Deeres at Hillton Freight Station End Ramp
Here at the Hillton Freight Station end ramp it appears the supervisor has arrived in his pickup truck to watch his men unload those new John Deere tractors. These plastic tractors were cheap enough to get several for flatcar loads and supporting scenery. It sure is exciting when many small detail items fall into…
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Heavy Materials Yard and Warehouse
The Hillton heavy materials track is straight behind the machine shop – the gray frame building at the right edge of this picture. This spur is intended for the machine shop material storage yard. This East end of Hillton can get busy with all kinds of freight. Here we might see such things…
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A Bus Station in a Railroad Town
The town’s people of Hillton, an industrial rail town, were happy to see a bus station built near the train station. Now maybe people could go someplace. Many years ago I had a plastic two story European style Interlocking building, which I did not care for. So I cut the bottom story off making a…
Model Railroading on the Cheap 