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Next, the switch crew takes a hopper car full of coal from the eastbound and continues their work by spotting a load at the Spencer Co-op (above). Below,the 455 has crossed the main and proceeds to switch the sauerkraut and pickle plant. Salt is brought in by boxcars, vinegar is produced locally, and unfinished pickles get loaded into the vat car.
and the width and roof pitch were ex- act. I was able to find out all the build- ing colors from the existing buildings or eyewitness accounts. I discovered the height of the utility poles when I found a ninety-five year old lineman who had set some of the poles. The track and turnouts selected were
Micro Engineering code 83. This track was the perfect weight and included all the tie plates and spikes. I wired every piece with sixteen gauge feeder wires soldered to the bottom of the rails. This insured perfect electric continuity and absolutely invisible connections. I used a DCC system from NCE because I
found it to be user friendly; I even con- trol the turnouts with decoders. Of course, I painted and weathered all of the track before installing it. When it came to scenery, I used as many natural materials from the rail yard as possible. I gathered ballast, cinders, dirt, stone, gravel and coal. By crushing and screening I was able to use real ballast for the main line and real cinders for the sidings, coal for the coal dumps, dirt for the dirt roads, and stone for foundations and ditches. Us- ing static grasses greatly improved the looks of lawns, fields and ditches. I also used it to “grow” grass between ties and on the less-used tracks. Trees were handmade using honeysuckle branches for the trunks and Super Trees®
for the
branches, topping them off with leaf fo- liage from Scenic Express. Vehicles were generally built from
kits, although I kitbashed some of them. Finding stake bed trucks from the 1920’s and 1930’s was nearly impossible so I had to build them from scratch. All were adorned with mirrors, aerials and li- cense plates true to their years. In the general scheme of things, the
Feed Office Apple orchard Apple Barn
Homer Delong General Stores Warehouse
General store
W.B. Hubbard Co. Inc Grain
U.S. Bean storage Fertilizer House
Poultry G.L.F. Coal elevator
Hay Spencer Coop
House
Garage Passenger & freight station Office 58 Coal pockets Oil storage tanks General Fuel Wm. Lang Sauerkraut & Pickles
Drawing by Ken Lawrence
JANUARY 2013
Apple orchard
King St.
Seneca Rd.
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