This is not a gripe, so no flames. I like the layout drawings in the articles about layouts, and in fact I always take each numbered photo and look on the layout drawing to try to determine the exact cropping of the photo in terms of the layout. I have fun seeing that we are looking over this and beside that. ( I took air photo interpretation in college)
The drawings are usually really accurate - they match the photos pretty well. Oh the occasional missing building or a side track that curves different, but usually close. But I cannot seem to match photo 6 on page 35 of December 2017 issue. The Dutchess and Hudson Valley is a lovely model pike, I must say. That photo is a close shot of a tunnel, middle of right edge on the map. Yes, this is a tiny detail.
In the map, the terrain behind the tunnel portal is a wooded hill. But in the photo, I see buildings, a street, and even tracks in the background aiming at another portal. I can't match the two. Am I missing something? I thought maybe the 6-arrow was misplaced on the map, but the only place I see where the photo could have been taken was just above, the wooded hill right about where the 44" label sits. looking downward.
My query then is how are the map drawings made? Compiled from many photos? MAde from track plans provided?
It took me a while to figure that one out too. It's not that the plan is drawn wrong, they just have the photo location for 6 in the wrong place.
It should be on the far right side, where the label is for Thorndike's Mill, pointing straight down. Notice the double track to the farthest right is at a higher level than the next pair of tracks, you can see that tunnel portal for the upper track in the upper left of the photo. The two trains entering and leaving the tunnel are on the lower pair of tracks. On the plan, there is a building sitting diagonally where the hidden double track is crossed over by the even higher single track - in photo 6 you can see that portal in the upper right. The building is the Southriver Modelworks kit mentioned in the photo caption.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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I wasn't sure about the marked location either because the photo didn't have the turnout for the siding on the right track as shown on the track plan. But I didn't go looking for an alternate location.
Good sluething Randy.
Jim
rrinkerIt should be on the far right side, where the label is for Thorndike's Mill, pointing straight down. Notice the double track to the farthest right is at a higher level than the next pair of tracks, you can see that tunnel portal for the upper track in the upper left of the photo.
+1
As to the why? Stuff happens. Good eye.