Results of Poll concerning Industries to Model

Small Steel Mill with 1 or 2 blast furnaces.....9% (7)

Port/Harbor with a couple of ships perhaps a merchant ship and a passenger ship.....30% (24)

Old style amusement Park with operating rides.....2% (2)

Large Passenger station with 4 or 5 track yard & the city to go with it.....5% (4)

Small Passenger station and a smaller city/town with several small industries.....11% (9)

Elevated Rapid Transit operation in bigger city......2% (2)

City trolley system.......2% (2)

Added by Others:

Pulping paper mill in the 1950's-60'.....10% (8)

Grain elevator and flour mill .......10% (8)

Large something-or-other manufacturer, mill gons in, flatcar loads out, with small yard to serve off table un-modeled part of plant.......4% (3)

A manufacturing plant with a foundry and fabrication shop. Incoming loads would be pig iron, Scrap metal, casting sand, steel plates, structural steel. Outgoing - castings in box cars, larger Castings in crates on flat cars, fabricated steel objects crated or un-crated on flats......10% (8)

Cement Plant......1% (1)

Any "box cars" industry.......0% (0)

Ice racks and reefers.......1% (1)

Oil dealer or oil rack.......0% (0)

Back End of Refinery: includes specific loading racks for a variety of products including gasoline, diesel, kerosene, heavy oils, propane, sulfur or sulfuric acid, coke and misc chemicals.......2% (2)

Larger number of votes are printed in Bold

Catenary on the O Scale Cherry Hill Model Railroad Club in New Jersey

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First of year update

I read about a modeler who made a News Years resolution to complete one project on his layout per month so that at least 12 projects would be completed this year.

So I have taken the same approach to get more done on the layout.  So………………..

January:  Complete (finish) some structures that I have been fooling around with.  They range from 10% complete to 99% complete.  Also finish installing the temporary signals on the PRR side up to Warren’s gap.

February: Re-build the CTC to the changed design of the layout from the previous South Shore/ Western Maryland to the current PRR/Western Maryland.  Now that I have the Zing Air Cutter, I can cut the vinyl for the Model Board.

March: Build Penn Station Baltimore (also uses cutter), install the tunnels, and the city scenery areas and roads and roadbed for trolley/interurban Baltimore Transit.

April:  Build as needed and install signals on the Western Maryland end of the layout.

Unknown Photo

Here is a photo I would like to identify.  I think it is the Canton Railroad in Baltimore, MD.  The hopper full of coal being shoved up the incline by the mole to a rotary dumper.  The dumper in turn filling the smaller hoppers which may be self-propelled or on a incline, going to a power plant.

Unknown Photo

I now believe this is the PRR Coal Pier at Canton in Baltimore.  The small hoppers are cable cars.  Here is the reference at the Library of Congress site.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/md0988/

Hagerstown and Frederick Railway Documentary

This revised and updated video is may possible by grants from Frederick News Post, the Hagerstown Trust Company and WJEJ AM. Based on the video by Carroll James.  Be patient as this is a 30 minute video and depending on your speed, it may take a while to load.  However, it is worth the wait.

I hope to find some way to include a small portion of this interurban trolley line at least based on the real railroad on my layout.  The real H&F interchanged with the WMRY in Thurmont, MD.  It also ran in Hagerstown along with the WMRY but I don't believe there were any connections there.

Troels Kirk's photos mentioned in the email of 12/7/14

Cricut Explore for cutting Model Railroad Structures

This and many more videos are available at Train Masters TV (http://trainmasters.tv/).  This is an affiliated service of Model-Railroad-Hobbyist E-magazine.  I believe if you are a subscriber to this free E-magazine there is a discounted subscription available to Train Masters TV.