Re: Kokomo

Posted by Jim Courtney on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Kokomo-tp1652p1758.html

Kokomo is a neat location for modeling, especially 1900-1910, before the D&RG stopped operating its Blue River branch.  All that trackage of the 2 narrow gauge lines was squeezed together in the confines of a high mountain valley, among houses, businesses and mills, but at no place did they interchange with a physical trackage connection.

I've often thought that the later depot location on the C&S would lend itself to a long, simple narrow shelf module(s):  Kokomo Tank to the left, the Depot area with outfit cars and the truncated spur in center foreground, the scene ending on the right with the snowshed piercing a backdrop.  Or if space allowed, continuing to the right with the double trestles over the D&RG, with the siding and wye (modeled or suggested) between.

Good luck modeling in HOn3--if Blackstone models had been around in the early 1980s, I likely would not have chnaged to Sn3.