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A cut of ice reefers is shoved around to the icing platform by NYC No. 1905, a 2-6-0 loco- motive. The ice house and the loading dock are located on the Big Moose module.


vey maps from Wildflower Productions provided topographical information, and the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, was a re- source for prototype data, pictures, his- torical articles, seeing a Porter locomo- tive firsthand,


and just plain


inspiration. The Adirondack Division served as the Central’s link to Canada and tied into the Quebec Division. Originally built as the Mohawk & Malone Rail- road in 1892, it was acquired by the Central a few years later. Some of the


NYC No. 1291, a Ten Wheeler, (top) is on the point of a local passenger train as it passes Van Auken Inn on the Thendara South module. The basement layout is built with various mod- ules and semi-permanent sections. These last sections are used at each end of the layout.


RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN


key locations served along the line were Lake Placid, Thendara, Carter, Tupper Lake, and Malone. Around 1927, rail traffic on the Adirondack Di- vision mainly involved moving passen- gers, many of them vacationers attract- ed to the scenic splendor of the Adirondack Mountains. Utica Union Station, in Utica, New York, on the NYC mainline, served as a conduit for passenger traffic headed to and from the division. Outbound freight traffic was primarily built around forest prod- ucts (lumber) and ice; inbound cars carried the wide variety of freight com- modities needed in the region. Charlie’s basement home layout is comprised of modules and several semi- permanent sections that can be arranged up to 13 by 20 feet in size de- pending on the pieces used. The modu- lar sections are the core of his home lay- out and are combined with the semi-permanent sections for continuity. All the modular sections are loosely based on NMRA standards and range in size from two-by-two feet to two-by- six feet. He also uses his modules to field a display layout for train shows, either independently or combined with those of his modular club to promote the hobby. Digital command control (DCC) is used to power the layout, and this technology has greatly simplified wiring between modules and the semi- permanent sections. Generally, tangent trackwork is on the modules, and curved trackwork, the wye and staging yards are situated on the semi-perma- nent sections. The two curved sections were built with 22″- and 24″-radius


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