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Any Commuter Modelers?

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  • From: Staten Island NY
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Posted by joe323 on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:40 AM

In so much as I freelance my layout roughly based on where I live (Staten Island NY) I plan on adding a point to point elevated railway based on the SIR and extending it around the side of my train room to make it more realistic in length.  Island Model works sells the shells of the old SIR cars and the more modern R44 cars  Bowser sell the guts BTW.

Joe Staten Island West 

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:48 AM

Back in 2006, when I first posted on this thread, even this somewhat primitive "scenery" hadn't been finished:

Now, this video give you a better idea of what the Moose Bay Transit Authority looks like today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ5OvZtI-QU&feature=channel

 

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by Mike Kieran on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:09 PM

MisterBeasly, you have got to have the patience of a saint to detail those tunnels so thoroughly. I like the music that comes with the video.

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Posted by Mike Kieran on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:27 PM

MisterBeasly, you have got to have the patience of a saint to detail those tunnels so thoroughly. I like the music that comes with the video.

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Mike Kieran

Port Able Railway

I just do what the majority of the voices in my head vote on.

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Posted by jkeaton on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:56 PM

So far no one's mentioned Montreal's electric commuter lines...

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Posted by caldreamer on Thursday, May 12, 2011 7:44 PM

Being from New York I can tell you that there are extensive elevated tracks that run in Brooklyn (B,D,F,N,LL,1,2,3,4 and 7 trains.  In Queens the #7 train from Brooklyn runs through Manhattan and out to Flushing Queens.  In the Manhattan the 1,2,3,4,,A,C,CC  and D trains run on elevated tracks in upper Manhttan.  I may have  forgooten a few as it has been many years since I have been in New York, but that will give you a good idea.

 

 

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