The daily passenger service of the New York Central brings a steady stream of tourists to the Adirondacks. The Thendara module is home to this small depot and engine facility.
Rolling stock, appropriate to the era being modeled, consists mainly of 36- to
40-foot boxcars and reefers. The lumber cars are a mixture of skeleton log cars. Passenger cars are either At- hearn or Rivarossi and some 50-foot “Overland” cars from Model Die Cast- ing. All the Overland cars have been superdetailed with interiors. An active member of an Atlanta area operating group, Charlie is a big fan of realistic operations. Operation sessions on his layout use a timetable to govern the movements of trains.
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freight and passenger trains are run on the layout along with various locals. The layout can accommodate four to six op- erators. Typical operating sessions fea- ture trains moving logs from the Buck Pond spurs to the Dias Mill using skele- ton flat cars, regular flat cars, and gon- dolas. In addition, there is some spotting and pulling of cars from staging to the freight station and Dias Mill, and vice- versa. Switch lists or paper instructions drive freight forwarding movements to the customers on the railroad. As with most model railroads, this
one is far from complete. Plans are to add more scenery, details and expand the layout with additional modular sec- tions to increase the operating possibili- ties. Under construction now is a six- foot long module featuring a lumber mill, complete with a log pond, where log trains will dump their loads. Logs will then be channeled from the pond into the lumber mill for processing. One of the best things about modu- lar railroading is its flexibility, plug and play, if you will. Modules can be ex- changed like dominoes with others to alter the composition of the layout. This flexibility not only maintains one’s interest, it lends itself to new op- erating possibilities, both positive re- sults well worth the effort. Who knows what is next? There is a rumor that a new and larger basement is in the off- ing, with a house on top: more railroad! You can see Charlie Crawford’s HO
scale Adirondack Division of the New York Central during the annual layout tours sponsored by the Piedmont Divi- sion of the NMRA, (Piedmont Pilgrim- age) held throughout October and No- vember each year, as well as at the upcoming 2013 Peachtree Express NMRA National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia (see
www.nmra2013.org). Charlie Crawford has earned the
NMRA’s Master Model Railroader award, and holds the Author, Master Builder Cars, Chief Dispatcher, Electri- cal Engineer, Master Builder Scenery, Master Builder Structures and Associ- ation Volunteer certificates.
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