Re: 2019 Sn3 Symposium -- More layout photos
Posted by Jim Courtney on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/2019-Sn3-Symposium-tp13765p13779.html
Keith and I (and Dale Kreutzer on Friday) shared some quality windshield time driving the back roads of east King County, visiting layouts that were open for the Sn3 Symposium.
Since I love to post photos here, join us as we retrace our travels on Thursday and Friday, April 4th and 5th . . .
Gary Jordan's "The Gilpin Tram" (On3/On2)
In a very limited space, Gary has captured the feel of Blackhawk and the Gilpin Tram tracks to the various mills, with Clear Creek winding through the scenes. How many of the mills do you recognize??
Gary's motive power consists of Overland brass imports for GT shays 3, 4 and 5. And there are lots and lots of Grandt Gilpin ore cars on Coronado trucks. The remaining 2 foot gauge rolling stock is all scratch built from C&S Folio drawings.
Didrik Voss's "Everett & Monte Christo Railway" (HO standard):
Didrick's layout was featured in the Gazette many years back. The E&MC was a real tun-of-the-century railroad built from Everett, on Puget Sound, up the south fork of the Stillaguamish River to reach the gold mining town of Monte Christo, high in the Cascades. The railroad was financed by Rockefeller, but the available ore wasn't economically feasible to mine. The railroad later passed into the possession of the Northern Pacific as a lumbering branch line.
In east Everett, the E&MC yards and shops are adjacent to a huge smelting complex:
The railroad interchanges with the Northern Pacific at Hartford, just to the east.
Heading east, the railroad crosses the river on this neat wood bridge, carefully constructed from prototype photos:
East of Granite Falls, is a large sawmill complex, fed by a logging railroad.
Further upstream, the river's canon narrows and both tunnels and snow/rock sheds were employed.
The final climb to Monte Christo required switch backs on trestles to reach the town and the gold concentrator. If the E&MC wasn't narrow gauge, it should have been.
The railroad facilities at Monte Christo were on the simple side -- there was never really a depot there. People just came down the plank road to the tracks, to catch the train.
It looks like Keith isn't the only one to use forced perspective to an advantage:
For more info on the real Everett & Monte Christo, go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_and_Monte_Cristo_Railway
For a video of the layout, go here: https://vimeo.com/97887180
Steve Depolo's "Alaska Pacific Railway and Terminal Company" (Sn3):
Steve's layout is heavily influenced by the layout of his friend, the late Brian Ellerby, who gave the world Evergreen Styrene.
The Alaska Pacific is a "what if" layout. The real AP Rwy & T Co. was a standard gauge line that began construction in 1907, from Katalla, AK, toward an interior copper mining region. The real railroad never was completed, so Steve built it to 3 foot gauge instead.
The wharves at Katalla -- everywhere we looked, Keith and I noticed former C&S rolling stock:
In the railroad yard at Katalla, Keith and I discovered Derrell Poole's "Eight wheel caboose on the C&S", requisitioned by the US government for use on the AP, to help build a nearby segment of the ALCAN highway:
Little towns along the route were served by little depots:
The railroad descended into an interior glacial valley by tunnel and steel bridges:
I didn't ask Steve the name of this long, narrow glacial lake, but to me it will always be "Mirror Lake", due to the mirror at the far end that doubles its length. Can you see it?
A small depot and a spur to a wharf serve the barge traffic on the lake:
The mining region at the end of the railway includes a large processing mill, boarding house for workers, cottages for officials and offices for both the mines and the railroad.
And for those skeptics that find moving a depot from Denver to Como to be improbable, please explain how the Romley depot ended up in the Alaska interior.
I was so taken by the scenery and structures that I forgot to get photos of Steve's locomotives. The AP is powered by 2-8-0's, mostly outside frame. And some of Brian Ellerby's Copper River & Yukon locomotives are leased to meet the demands of increased traffic. Photos of Steve's locomotives can be found here:
https://www.sn3seattle.com/LayoutsTour/DePolo
Bruce Hanley's "Washo & Wind Gap" (Sn3):
The W&WG is a Colorado themed Sn3 layout built in a modest "bonus" room. Bruce made use of one of the "voids" in the attack for a loop staging yard and storage of equipment. The mainline is a simple oval, the rear part of the oval behind the backdrop being said staging yard.
A wye at the left end of the mainline loop leads to a branch line, and Bruce's primary interest, Colorado mining. Bruce and Chris Walker would hit it off fine.
On the mainline is Fudd's Fuels, a coal and petroleum distributor:
First stop on the branch line is this fascinating coke oven facility (or is it charcoal?):
The branch ends in a high mountain basin, reminiscent of Pandora, surrounded by various examples of hard rock mining:
Inspiring model building, our photos don't do the mill with its tramway/tram house justice!
______________
All three of us were famished after all this travel, so we stopped off at "Five Guys" hamburgers in Issaquah for a late lunch. Each of us consumed about 8,000 calories of burgers, fresh cut fries and milkshakes. Drowsy but determined, we visited the last layout of our two day tour . . .
Russ Segner's Coal Creek Lumber Company (Sn3):
Russ loves geared engines and has built a very nice, compact Sn3 layout, modeling the terrain around his home in Newcastle, in the Cascade foothills. The centerpiece of the layout is the sawmill complex built in an alcove of his bonus room, about 6 x 10 feet in dimension:
If Keith, in the cab of one of the shays, can control his log train coming down Tiger Mountain, he will end up spotting his train on the trestle of the A-frame log dump on the left.
Halfway up the grade to the logging camp on Tiger Mountain is the section town of Bunkers:
I didn't take as many photos of Russ's layout due to my elevated serum lipids from lunch and the serious need for a nap back at the hotel.
All in all a great two days visiting excellent model builder's work.
For more photos of these and other Sn3 Symposium layouts, visit https://www.sn3seattle.com/layouts
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/2019-Sn3-Symposium-tp13765p13779.html
Keith and I (and Dale Kreutzer on Friday) shared some quality windshield time driving the back roads of east King County, visiting layouts that were open for the Sn3 Symposium.
Since I love to post photos here, join us as we retrace our travels on Thursday and Friday, April 4th and 5th . . .
Gary Jordan's "The Gilpin Tram" (On3/On2)
In a very limited space, Gary has captured the feel of Blackhawk and the Gilpin Tram tracks to the various mills, with Clear Creek winding through the scenes. How many of the mills do you recognize??
Gary's motive power consists of Overland brass imports for GT shays 3, 4 and 5. And there are lots and lots of Grandt Gilpin ore cars on Coronado trucks. The remaining 2 foot gauge rolling stock is all scratch built from C&S Folio drawings.
Didrik Voss's "Everett & Monte Christo Railway" (HO standard):
Didrick's layout was featured in the Gazette many years back. The E&MC was a real tun-of-the-century railroad built from Everett, on Puget Sound, up the south fork of the Stillaguamish River to reach the gold mining town of Monte Christo, high in the Cascades. The railroad was financed by Rockefeller, but the available ore wasn't economically feasible to mine. The railroad later passed into the possession of the Northern Pacific as a lumbering branch line.
In east Everett, the E&MC yards and shops are adjacent to a huge smelting complex:
The railroad interchanges with the Northern Pacific at Hartford, just to the east.
Heading east, the railroad crosses the river on this neat wood bridge, carefully constructed from prototype photos:
East of Granite Falls, is a large sawmill complex, fed by a logging railroad.
Further upstream, the river's canon narrows and both tunnels and snow/rock sheds were employed.
The final climb to Monte Christo required switch backs on trestles to reach the town and the gold concentrator. If the E&MC wasn't narrow gauge, it should have been.
The railroad facilities at Monte Christo were on the simple side -- there was never really a depot there. People just came down the plank road to the tracks, to catch the train.
It looks like Keith isn't the only one to use forced perspective to an advantage:
For more info on the real Everett & Monte Christo, go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_and_Monte_Cristo_Railway
For a video of the layout, go here: https://vimeo.com/97887180
Steve Depolo's "Alaska Pacific Railway and Terminal Company" (Sn3):
Steve's layout is heavily influenced by the layout of his friend, the late Brian Ellerby, who gave the world Evergreen Styrene.
The Alaska Pacific is a "what if" layout. The real AP Rwy & T Co. was a standard gauge line that began construction in 1907, from Katalla, AK, toward an interior copper mining region. The real railroad never was completed, so Steve built it to 3 foot gauge instead.
The wharves at Katalla -- everywhere we looked, Keith and I noticed former C&S rolling stock:
In the railroad yard at Katalla, Keith and I discovered Derrell Poole's "Eight wheel caboose on the C&S", requisitioned by the US government for use on the AP, to help build a nearby segment of the ALCAN highway:
Little towns along the route were served by little depots:
The railroad descended into an interior glacial valley by tunnel and steel bridges:
I didn't ask Steve the name of this long, narrow glacial lake, but to me it will always be "Mirror Lake", due to the mirror at the far end that doubles its length. Can you see it?
A small depot and a spur to a wharf serve the barge traffic on the lake:
The mining region at the end of the railway includes a large processing mill, boarding house for workers, cottages for officials and offices for both the mines and the railroad.
And for those skeptics that find moving a depot from Denver to Como to be improbable, please explain how the Romley depot ended up in the Alaska interior.
I was so taken by the scenery and structures that I forgot to get photos of Steve's locomotives. The AP is powered by 2-8-0's, mostly outside frame. And some of Brian Ellerby's Copper River & Yukon locomotives are leased to meet the demands of increased traffic. Photos of Steve's locomotives can be found here:
https://www.sn3seattle.com/LayoutsTour/DePolo
Bruce Hanley's "Washo & Wind Gap" (Sn3):
The W&WG is a Colorado themed Sn3 layout built in a modest "bonus" room. Bruce made use of one of the "voids" in the attack for a loop staging yard and storage of equipment. The mainline is a simple oval, the rear part of the oval behind the backdrop being said staging yard.
A wye at the left end of the mainline loop leads to a branch line, and Bruce's primary interest, Colorado mining. Bruce and Chris Walker would hit it off fine.
On the mainline is Fudd's Fuels, a coal and petroleum distributor:
First stop on the branch line is this fascinating coke oven facility (or is it charcoal?):
The branch ends in a high mountain basin, reminiscent of Pandora, surrounded by various examples of hard rock mining:
Inspiring model building, our photos don't do the mill with its tramway/tram house justice!
______________
All three of us were famished after all this travel, so we stopped off at "Five Guys" hamburgers in Issaquah for a late lunch. Each of us consumed about 8,000 calories of burgers, fresh cut fries and milkshakes. Drowsy but determined, we visited the last layout of our two day tour . . .
Russ Segner's Coal Creek Lumber Company (Sn3):
Russ loves geared engines and has built a very nice, compact Sn3 layout, modeling the terrain around his home in Newcastle, in the Cascade foothills. The centerpiece of the layout is the sawmill complex built in an alcove of his bonus room, about 6 x 10 feet in dimension:
If Keith, in the cab of one of the shays, can control his log train coming down Tiger Mountain, he will end up spotting his train on the trestle of the A-frame log dump on the left.
Halfway up the grade to the logging camp on Tiger Mountain is the section town of Bunkers:
I didn't take as many photos of Russ's layout due to my elevated serum lipids from lunch and the serious need for a nap back at the hotel.
All in all a great two days visiting excellent model builder's work.
For more photos of these and other Sn3 Symposium layouts, visit https://www.sn3seattle.com/layouts
Jim Courtney
Poulsbo, WA
Poulsbo, WA
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