Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
These are very creative ways of dealing with the problem, but after consideration, I think I'm just going to stick with Train City. It's got a ring that I've gotten used to.
Now Rock Ridge, is the name of the miner Rodney Ridge who got the nickname Rock because of being a miner. Of course, his mine is the Rock Ridge Mine, and it follows that the town that the mine supports would be the town of Rock Ridge.
So the pike is once and for officially, The Rock Ridge and Train City Railroad, a division of Southern Pacific est. 1885.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Texas Zepher wrote: MisterBeasley wrote:It rhymes with my town of Moose Bay. Funny, I was going to suggest subverting it a bit to Kabmoose Bay or similar.Using "Bay" in the name is not really an issue, as it has many more definitions than "a body of water protected from the sea".bay - redish brownbay - a garland or crownbay - to cry out with prolonged tones (like a hound dog)bay - any terrestrial formations resembling a bay of the seabay - the position of one unable to retreate and forced to face dangerbay - the position of one checked (as in eBay)Get an unabridged dictionary and there will probably be a bunch more..... In this reguard Caboose Bay isn't necessarily very bad.
MisterBeasley wrote:It rhymes with my town of Moose Bay.
Using "Bay" in the name is not really an issue, as it has many more definitions than "a body of water protected from the sea".
bay - redish brownbay - a garland or crownbay - to cry out with prolonged tones (like a hound dog)bay - any terrestrial formations resembling a bay of the seabay - the position of one unable to retreate and forced to face dangerbay - the position of one checked (as in eBay)
Get an unabridged dictionary and there will probably be a bunch more.....
In this reguard Caboose Bay isn't necessarily very bad.
Or as I said how I first took it...
bay- a place or area (as in a three bay garage)
I dont think he was impressed with my caboose bay idea......I have 2 short tracks off my turntable that are devoted to cabeese(the plural of caboose!!). they are for resting, staging, repair in place etc....if I need to I can park a car or two there also...for same reasons. I got the idea from a proto operation I saw online where they had a specific track in the yard designated the caboose area...or bay area..to park them whilst the consist was consisting....I took it that most yards would have the same?? (lol). So I designated the cabeese area...and think I shall call it the caboose bay tracks.
-G
Modeling the RAILS system...
the Rural Allied Industrial System, where any and all may join the collective, share and lease equipment and ROW use for the betterment of mankind and profitability of all .
While I have papers to prove I'm not at all "all right in the head", the RAILS SYSTEM is from a world all inside my head, but its ok, they like me there.(I think)
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Hey, I like it! It rhymes with my town of Moose Bay. And it gives you a chance to have a bridge or causeway right up at the edge of the layout, without really having to make the water "go" anywhere.
I've been naming local businesses on my layout after my daughter's friends. So far, I've got Katie's School of Dance, Max's School of Rock, Suzanne's House of Beef and Madame Adrienne, fortune teller. Maybe your son would like to be a blacksmith on your layout? Most of us couldn't do a blacksmith, but in Caboose Bay it would fit right in.
Under the spreading chestnut tree, the Village Smithy snoozes.
No horse since 1933 has come to him for shoozes.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
SpaceMouse wrote:...[E]ither I have to name it Caboose Bay and find a way to get some water on the layout, like an ocean or a lake--the Rock Ridge and Train City are in the semi-arid foothills of the Sierras or Coastals--or the name stays Train City. Any suggestions?
...[E]ither I have to name it Caboose Bay and find a way to get some water on the layout, like an ocean or a lake--the Rock Ridge and Train City are in the semi-arid foothills of the Sierras or Coastals--or the name stays Train City.
Any suggestions?
Most of the lettuce you buy at your local grocery store comes from the Central Valley of California, it is one of the most fertile growing areas of the country. But, there have been lots of draught problems out there in California. The people in the central valley are having fits. Water wars with neighbors in Nevada and Arizona. It makes sense to me that they build a reservoir out their to take care of the snow-melt coming out of the High Sierras. So it could be called the SP Res, and I'm pretty sure it is big enough to have a Caboose Bay. It might also have Loco Island out in the middle. You might not want to swim to the island in the spring, if you are there when the snow-melt is pretty high, the island can disappear for a few days.
Sounds to me like a win-win situation. The growers out there get water in the summer. The SP lives on, if only in name. Your son has Caboose Bay. You have a happy boy (nothin' better, IMHO).
Of course, you would only need to model a little corner of the bay, but it always helps everyone involved to know the local history!
Have fun,
FT
Thanks for that info. I have been to 5 shows in 7 months., only 2 of which to look for my 1800s needs. Didnt find much. I avoid e-bay or as I call it E-SLAY becuse the customers may get slaughtered. From the posts here I see would/could/might be a fair assumption. I don't have to buy new, but I like to see it first.
ty
While I have papers to prove I'm not all in my head, the RAILS SYSTEM is All from a world inside my head, but its ok, they like me there.(I think)
galaxy wrote: Hi. This may seem strange, but when I first read it I read it as " caboose bay"...as in the place where caboose, cabooses, or "cabeese" would be stored or held while awaiting or finishing duty......as in a "3 bay garage" or a "4 bay horse barn" (stall).Or, to my thought, a three bay (3 track{or more?}) holding/fix/repair area???? Had you not mentioned H2O, I wouldnt have thought of it.Maybe a small area of a yard or a small area of its own to store the "cabeese"???If not, then let some H2O in, as stated, a lake for instance, or at the least a pond??I am also trying to model in HO and maybe N (have both) as well in a small space to be (pragmatically) the 1800s (1830-1880-ish). I wonder where you get your stuff. Engines seem easy, buildings if I had to scratch build...but rolling stock???? where do you get yours??-G Modeling the RAILS system... the Rural Allied Industrial System, where any and all may join the collective, share and lease equipment and ROW use for the betterment of mankind and profitability of all .While I have papers to prove I'm not all in my head, the RAILS SYSTEM is All from a world inside my head, but its ok, they like me there.(I think)
Hi. This may seem strange, but when I first read it I read it as " caboose bay"...as in the place where caboose, cabooses, or "cabeese" would be stored or held while awaiting or finishing duty......as in a "3 bay garage" or a "4 bay horse barn" (stall).
Or, to my thought, a three bay (3 track{or more?}) holding/fix/repair area???? Had you not mentioned H2O, I wouldnt have thought of it.Maybe a small area of a yard or a small area of its own to store the "cabeese"???
If not, then let some H2O in, as stated, a lake for instance, or at the least a pond??
I am also trying to model in HO and maybe N (have both) as well in a small space to be (pragmatically) the 1800s (1830-1880-ish). I wonder where you get your stuff. Engines seem easy, buildings if I had to scratch build...but rolling stock???? where do you get yours??
For rolling stock look for old MDC Roundhouse kits on eBay or a train shows. They are fairly common. I've got a good sized livery. Structures are also easy to find on eBay. There are cheap old West buildings popping up all the time. The better ones are Muir models and Campbell craftsman kits.
Caboose bay, for sure and, you could have the town of Caboose Bay at one end, hidden by the veiwblocks, whith the train going through a tunnel and coming out at the other scenes
would that work?
TerryinTexas
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Lake Tahoe? Or a river. I mean, we have places like Port Clinton and Schuykill Haven, and they are merely on a river, no lake or ocean.
--Randy
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My son, when he was 7 named Train City. At the time it was DC and each of my daughter, my son, and I had trains to run. Each sat on a different track that could be powered down--in essence parked. With the buildings in place and every track occupied, it sort of looked like a train residential area--so he named it Train City.
Well one thing about autistic kids is that they don't like change. I guess it's hard enough for them to get used to the things the way they are. This weekend, I took him on a tour of the way the new layout was going to look. He was crying. He liked the old Train City. But another trait of autistic kids if you let them know ahead of time what is going to happen, they gradually warm up to the idea. He will be okay with the new layout--especially if he can run his noisy 2-8-0 all the way around the layout without derailing. That was his problem, and mine, with the old layout--ricker-fracking EZ Track turnouts. I'm going FasTracks, every turnout is going to be dead-nuts perfect or this layout will never have scenery.
So anyway, I've been making hints that he needs to come up with a new name, something a little more...subtle. Train City. So last night after one of my hints, he grins ear-to-ear, "Caboose Bay."
Of course, my wife chimes in and tell him how great the name is. So now, either I have to name it Caboose Bay and find a way to get some water on the layout, like an ocean or a lake--the Rock Ridge and Train City are in the semi-arid foothills of the Sierras or Coastals--or the name stays Train City.