Charlie Crawford’s NYC Adirondack division
Charlie Crawford’s modular NYC Adirondack Division HO scale: 13′×20′ in this configuration.
curves. The 1927-era equipment has no problem with the curves and more space is left for aisles. Each of the main modules used in
the home layout is named to reflect an area of the prototype being modeled. Charlie started out with a two- by four- foot module for Big Moose in 2002. Big Moose is a forested area and the key structure is a scratchbuilt ice house. The two- by two-foot addition to Big Moose was built next, then the Buck Pond module. At two by six feet, the Buck Pond module features a log pond, bridge, various logging equipment and spurs for loading logs onto flatcars or gondolas for shipment to destinations either on or off line. In 2003 the Thendara North and
South modules, both measuring two by six feet, were added. Thendara North has a large station, an engine facility, turntable, a sand house, an oil tank, and Van Auken’s Inn. The turntable is an At- las product modified to include a scratchbuilt bridge with steel girder sid- ing made of styrene plastic; the Atlas turntable itself is recessed into the sub- roadbed. Thendara South is the site of a freight station, Deis Mill, a lumber mill where logs and rough-cut lumber are prepared for finishing, and Foley Lum- ber wholesalers. The semi-permanent sections of the layout were built in early
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On the Thendara Pond module, a horse-drawn wagon hauls canoes for use by vacation- ers visiting the region. Behind the wagon NYC No. 1134 is hauling a local freight.
2004. By building the layout as modules Charlie was able to concentrate on building one piece at a time and get it reasonably finished, Not used on his home layout, but providing more flexi- bility for display at train shows, he has
also built corner modules with 35″- and 37″-radius curves. A pair of two-foot modular sections
were added in 2009, and these were displayed as part of his traveling lay- out at the NMRA National Convention
MARCH 2012
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