Progress Photos of the New River Subdivision

[C&O Fan]

We worked till midnight Tues trying to complete some of the structures for Thurmond so we could take pictures Wensday for Art's presentation at the C&O Historical Society Meeting Next week

Still lots of work to do but it's a good start

This is what Thurmond looked like last week

 

 

Wensday

I built the Engine House Mock Up,The commissary on the left and the three small buildings on the lower left I finished the bunkhouse that Andrew started {the building just to the right of the loco} Art did the Thurmond Depot. Andrew did the bridge. I built the East End yard office and outhouse {small buildings up by the caboose} I also made the Tunnel portal also made the loading platform behind the Depot for the freight house which is not yet complete

 

Art and Andrew did all the scenery work on the Rend subdivision and Andrew made the bridge

 

Art did a great job scratchbuilding the Thurmond Depot

 

Andrew did a super job scratch building the New River Bridge

 

Art's nicely weathered H-8

You can see more photos of Art's layout @

http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2098660329

 

[fifedog]

Looks fabulous, Terry.  Thanks for sharing, and , umm... keep dry.

[wmshay06]

Nice work...would love to see the track plan too!

I'm modeling the Hawks Nest Branch (SubDivision) - just a bit upriver from Thurmond of course, from Hawks Nest to Ansted.  Thurmond/Hinton and Handley are represented by staging due to the space limits I have  (roughly 10 ft x 10 ft).  Operationally 2 scheduled manifests and 2 coal 'drags' fun on the modeled portion of the main, plus the locals and Short Horn & Long Horn mine runs on the branch.

One day I'll have to make the C&O convention.

 

Charles

[Paul W. Beverung]

Nice work Terry. Where in Texas are you? I'm west of Ft. Worth in eastern Parker County.

[C&O Fan]

Paul 

Thanks for the complement

I live in Houston

[C&O Fan]

Nice work...would love to see the track plan too!

I'm modeling the Hawks Nest Branch (SubDivision) - just a bit upriver from Thurmond of course, from Hawks Nest to Ansted.  Thurmond/Hinton and Handley are represented by staging due to the space limits I have  (roughly 10 ft x 10 ft).  Operationally 2 scheduled manifests and 2 coal 'drags' fun on the modeled portion of the main, plus the locals and Short Horn & Long Horn mine runs on the branch.

One day I'll have to make the C&O convention.

 

 

Sadly Art did all his drawings on a CAD system where he works and doesn't have a

computer file with his track plan on it

It's over 250 ft of double mainline all hand laid

If you look at the first 9 photos in his album you will get an idea of the size

Some day i'd like to go to the C&O modelers convention because they hold it at Hawk's Nest

 

Charles

[railroadinmedic]

Wow, very nice....send more pics when you an. 

[C&O Fan]

Here is a comparsion photo of the real thing and Art's model

C&O Historical Society photo

 

[SpaceMouse]

Nice stuff. That old photo looks like a lot of the stuff I've have been working from.

Chip

[tstage]

Beautiful work, Terry!   I really like the look of the layout!  Is this a club layout?  I just love seeing a coal region modeled - maybe because I love seeing long drags of hoppers full of coal. 

Keep those pics comin', Terry.  And high greens on the progress...

Tom 

[claymore1977]

To put it lightly, skills like this are truely inspirational!

 

Excellent job Terry!

[C&O Fan]

Nice stuff. That old photo looks like a lot of the stuff I've have been working from.

Chip

Thanks Chip You can never get enough photos when modeling

The Historical Society was a lot of help But also found a lot of photos at

The American Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&action=browse&fileName=wv/wv0300/wv0301/photos/browse.db&recNum=0&itemLink=D?hh:1:./temp/~ammem_UMrd::&title2=Chesapeake+%26+Ohio+Railroad,+Thurmond+Yards,+East+side+New+River,+mouths+of+Arbuckle+%26+Dunlop+Circles,+Thurmond,+Fayette+County,+WV&displayType=1

 

[C&O Fan]

Beautiful work, Terry!   I really like the look of the layout!  Is this a club layout?  I just love seeing a coal region modeled - maybe because I love seeing long drags of hoppers full of coal. 

Keep those pics comin', Terry.  And high greens on the progress...

Tom 

Thanks Tom I'll pass along the complements

The layout belongs to a friend Art Borman who only lives 5 blocks away

We didn't know each other till last years open house tour

"Wierd"

Andrew who also does a lot of the work doesn't have a layout

because he lives in an apartment

We have work sessions almost weekly

Mostly at Art's as my layout is small and almost complete

But all 3 of us are C&O Fans

[C&O Fan]

To put it lightly, skills like this are truely inspirational!

 

Excellent job Terry!

 

Thanks Dave

I'll tell Art and Andrew

 

[MOSEMAN]

DO YOU HAVE A TRACK PLAN OF THIS LAYOUT AND IF SO WHERE COULD I SEE IT?

THANKS

MOSEMAN

[C&O Fan]

DO YOU HAVE A TRACK PLAN OF THIS LAYOUT AND IF SO WHERE COULD I SEE IT?

THANKS

MOSEMAN

 

Sorry no track plan but lots of photos at

http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2098660329

 

[Pruitt]

Lookin' good, man! I especially like the H-8 on the bridge!