Jim Heidt’s HO scale Long Lake
Blue Mtn. Lake
Tupper Lake
Ogdensburg & Norwood Rwy. Main layout room: 24′×30′ Ogdensburg/Northvale room: 8′×12′
Indian Lake Pierceville Down Wells (Helix under) Staging
W. Allen McClelland Virginian & Ohio Dawson Springs, from his original layout
Lounge, library and workshop Up
O&N Southern Div. on 9-track moveable staging - 3 decks/ 3 tracks each
Upper Level Storage
O & N Rwy. Other railroads
Hidden tracks Drawing by Ken Lawrence Hannawa Falls Potsdam Colton Norwood South Colton Madrid Backdrop
secondary main
NYC Northville
NYC 2 track Oval
Ore mines & yard
Lake Pleasent Speculator
line with a helix. The north point is nine tracks of
staging representing
Canada, with trains crossing the St. Lawrence via an imaginary, hidden car ferry into Ogdensburg.
Besides the historically prototypical grain elevator, riverside warehouses, ferry and other traffic destinations at Ogdensburg, I have included iron ore traffic as there was commercial iron ore
production in the Adirondacks
Helix Up
to Upper level 4.5 turns
Single Track Helix
Lisbon
Norwood Yard (NYC-Rutland)
Ogdensburg Up Furnace
Canada, on 9-track moveable staging - 3 decks/3 tracks each
Lower Level
To find out more about the Ogdensburg & Northern, be sure to visit the author’s website:
https://sites.google.com/site/ogdensburgandnorwoodrwy
1 trunk, bridge line carrier connecting the Great Lakes and Canada with southern New England via the New Haven at Pittsfield,
Think of it this way: as the Central Ver- mont was to the Canadian National, so the O&N was to the Canadian Pacific.
RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN Massachusetts.
Welcome to the O&N The portion of the O&N being mod- eled is the Northern Division from Og- densburg to Northville, New York, lo- cated near Albany on the Great Sacandaga Lake. The double deck HO scale layout has a 400-plus foot main-
behind freight terminal and scenic backdrop
Car ferry across St. Lawrence
Ore dock
through the 1950’s. I didn’t want to let a possibility for operations get away! Heading east (south on the timetable), the line runs through Lis- bon and Madrid (in the “North Coun- try” the accent is on the first syllable, i.e. “MAD-rid”) into Norwood, all prime dairy country providing a lot of milk and other dairy traffic for New York and Boston. Here, the O&N main inter- changes on the layout with the Rut- land and the NYC secondary line run- ning between Syracuse and Montreal, both which continue off-layout in a six- track staging yard. Continuing “south,” the O&N mainline enters Potsdam. Prototype Potsdam is a relatively sleepy college town, but on this layout it’s being developed as an urban and in- dustrialized community with enough action for its own dedicated switcher. This is also the beginning of the grade into the Adirondacks and the northern home to pusher service facilities. We in- terchange here with the New York Cen- tral secondary into that same staging area and share a scratchbuilt three-sto- ry Union Station that was designed to reflect the NYO&W/D&H station at Carbondale, Pennsylvania. Continuing south and upgrade, we move across the steel trestle over Hannawa Falls (a re- minder of the NYO&W Ferndale trestle of family heritage) and climb past Colton and South Colton into the helix. The main reappears in the heart of mountain country at Tupper Lake, a town combining tourism and industrial traffic. Here, the NYC line from Utica to Malone and north crosses a diamond and interchanges. A circular, two-track staging built on top of the helix serves as the NYC Utica feed. With a fictional bridge “out” on the NYC further north, the Central runs on trackage rights over O&N rails from this point northbound to Norwood, a good excuse to run NYC power and equipment over the layout. Passing the flag stop at Axton, we proceed southbound through and along Long Lake to Blue Mountain Lake, a prime tourist area with period hotels and centered by a scratchbuilt excur- sion boat. A branch tails off here into hidden staging toward the iron mines. This is the source of that iron ore traf- fic and a twice-daily run of a gas-pow- ered combine for the miners.
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