The morning job is nearly over as No. 455 pushes three loads of coal into the General Fuel coal dump (above left and right). Once
this is complete, the 2-8-2 will return to Ithaca for its next helper assignment. This overview (below) shows the 24-foot diorama.
Trumansburg diorama was a great ad- dition to the rest of my layout, a Lehigh Valley Road that is 50 feet by 30 feet and includes a coal mine, lum- ber mill, paint and chemical industries, fruit processors, evaporators, packing plants, and two large engine facilities. Trumansburg had three coal dumps, two granaries, poultry and hay ship- pers, general stores, warehouses and a sauerkraut and pickle plant. All of these fit my pre-existing layout like a tailor-made suit. Our operating ses- sions now have greater continuity and reason. A prototypical
track plan
makes switching flow smoothly and with ample room. Milk and passenger trains have a passing track that keeps things running on time, and a separate freight line with a passing track adds yet another schedule keeper. When I decided to build the Trumansburg rail yards, I thought it would be a bit like fitting a square peg into a round hole where operations were concerned. In- stead, I got a well-oiled machine. Now that this project is complete and I
have opened it to the public, the re- sponse has been overwhelming from all
RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN
who remember the era and more impor- tantly from those who don’t. Knowing this, I have accomplished my goal, pre-
serving the history of the iron horse. If you’d like to see more, check out the web- site:
http://www.miniloco.com/lehigh.
In the fall of 1967, this SW9, No. 283, pulled a boxcar from the Agway (formerly GLF) and took it north to Geneva, N.Y., as the tracks east to Ithaca had already been taken up. This would mark the end of an era for the Lehigh Valley in Trumansburg.
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