Welcome to my Blog. The scope of this blog is to record the trials and tribulations of building and maintaining an HO scale layout, the trains and all of the ancillary projects that go with it. In 2017 New York Central subsidiary short line Empire Belt Railroad came into existence. The New York Central / Penn Central and Empire Belt are now the major railroads featured.
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Thursday, August 17, 2017
P.CC.M. 37G / The E.B.R.R. Delivers
Greetings All, Today we'll take a look at the Empire Belt delivering some of the freight cars that came out of West Mill in PC Train WV-2 on Ralph's excellent Kings Port Division layout. It's worth another look so check out the originating installments posted on Ralph's blog: http://kingsportdivision.blogspot.com/ It's a great way to start your day! Welcome Back from from your tour of West Mill! We'll pick up the action at Empire City's North Side Yard now firmly under control of the Empire Belt RR. Below E.B.R.R. GP30 #2160 couples up to caboose #1605 to pull it out of the way and set up the yard moves for this mornings deliveries.
With #1605 out of the way the Long Island RR block has been cut behind BM #110.
E.B.R.R. GP30s #2160 and #2161 have pulled the Empire City block out of the yard and crossed over to the industrial lead. Here they are headed to the West Side and passing Hohman Ave.
First stop of the day is Superior Furniture.
BM #109 and #110 are spotted on Superior Furniture's lead. Both cars are loaded with mirrors and sheet glass from Corning Glass in Corning NY.
The E.B.R.R. crew has traveled around Empire City and is now coming thru the East side of town.
Next stop is Neal's Lumber & Hardware where the crew is pulling out A.P.R.R. 50' RBL #60392 to make room for PC #77047
PC 40' boxcar #77047 loaded with bagged aggregate from Hedberg Aggregate in Marion NY is shoved into place.
The crew is now working the Gervais Pipe / Ralph's Grocery lead pulling cars from Gervais Pipe & Fitting and shoving back to pick up the cars at Ralph's Grocery Warehouse.
PC #229046 loaded with cake mix from Blue Ribbon Flour in Kings Port NY and L.F.N.W. #160 loaded with wine from the Vintners Co-op in Jaques CAare both spotted at Ralph's Grocery Warehouse. An interesting note about Jaques CA. It's named after pioneer modeler and nature painter Francis Lee Jaques who had a stamp issued commemorating him. He was a true pioneer who started modeling before World War I and his layout, the Great North Road, was featured in an early 1960's issue of Model Railroader Magazine. See end of entry for more.
Two breadbox trough hoppers loaded with steel coils from Kings Port Steel in Kings Port NY are spotted at Gervais Pipe & Fitting
It's work now complete the crew heads back towards Hohman Ave on the industrial lead track
That's it for today. Tomorrow we'll wrap up P.C.C.M. #37.
Thanks for reading!
All information on Francis Lee Jaques in this blog entry is courtesy of fellow model railroader and blogger John Bruce. The town of Jaques CA is a freelance town on John's layout. For more on Francis Lee Jaques and his layout check out these links;
Another great post and pics. I feel as if you're more of a model railroad historian the way you describe each and every move made on the N.Y.C.T.L.! The profits made have to be astronomical for the railroad. The E.B.R.R. is doing great work servicing all of the industries and I like that you now have the two railroads in action as the same time! Awesome!
Great back story on a true Model Railroad pioneer. I'll have to check out more on Mr. Jaques and his Great North Road. Agree with Sir Neal, The Empire Belt is really taking off.
Thanks 1:1 scale ATJOE! The information from John Bruce on Mr Jaques was very informative and educational. I was not aware of him until John provided the background on his model RR town.
Hey, I wasn't even aware that there are photos of the Great North Road on the web. As the entries say, his layout was fully moved to the Minnesota Mining Museum in Chisolm (worth the visit for all the stuff there, for instance if anyone is going to railfan the ex DM&IR). One thing about it is that it's a multi-level layout that dates from the early 1950s as far as I can see, well before John Armstrong came up with the idea. I've left comments at MRVP from time to time urging them to visit the Chisolm museum and report on the layout, since MR had covered it nearly 60 years ago, but they haven't picked up on it. MR featured the Great North Road in its May 1962 issue, but the best intro to the layout is the real thing at the Chisolm museum, since it has a lot of in-progress scratchbuilding examples from Jaques as well.
A visit to the museum is definitely worth looking into if in the area. Maybe we can convince Ralph to head over and take some photos for us. He is the closest by a long shot.
Thanks for all the information on Mr Jaques. It added a nice historical element to this virtual ops series.
B.T.W. now that L.F.N.W. #160 is at Ralph's Grocery Warehouse it cannot be photographed anywhere else or you'll violate the time-space continuum which would be disastrous! ;)
"The E.B.R.R. Delivers!" sounds like a great slogan for the railroad! Nice action from Northside Yard to the industries on the line. I wasn't familiar with Francis Lee Jaques but look at all of those Minnesota connections! If I'm ever neat the Chisolm area I'll certainly check out the layout at the museum. I love the idea of a real caboose being painted in honor of his layout.
Thanks for compliments Ralph! You're right the E.B.R.R. Delivers does sound like a great slogan. I wish I'd known this when I ordered the decals. The info on F.L. Jaques was very interesting and he does in deed have many MN connections. Hopefully you'll get a chance to visit the museum and see that good looking caboose in person not to mention his layout.
Another great post and pics. I feel as if you're more of a model railroad historian the way you describe each and every move made on the N.Y.C.T.L.! The profits made have to be astronomical for the railroad. The E.B.R.R. is doing great work servicing all of the industries and I like that you now have the two railroads in action as the same time! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteThanks 1:1 scale Sir Neal!This entry had some good stuff. John Bruce's contribution added a lot to the action and teh historical background.
DeleteGreat back story on a true Model Railroad pioneer. I'll have to check out more on Mr. Jaques and his Great North Road. Agree with Sir Neal, The Empire Belt is really taking off.
ReplyDeleteThanks 1:1 scale ATJOE! The information from John Bruce on Mr Jaques was very informative and educational. I was not aware of him until John provided the background on his model RR town.
ReplyDeleteHey, I wasn't even aware that there are photos of the Great North Road on the web. As the entries say, his layout was fully moved to the Minnesota Mining Museum in Chisolm (worth the visit for all the stuff there, for instance if anyone is going to railfan the ex DM&IR). One thing about it is that it's a multi-level layout that dates from the early 1950s as far as I can see, well before John Armstrong came up with the idea. I've left comments at MRVP from time to time urging them to visit the Chisolm museum and report on the layout, since MR had covered it nearly 60 years ago, but they haven't picked up on it. MR featured the Great North Road in its May 1962 issue, but the best intro to the layout is the real thing at the Chisolm museum, since it has a lot of in-progress scratchbuilding examples from Jaques as well.
ReplyDeleteA visit to the museum is definitely worth looking into if in the area. Maybe we can convince Ralph to head over and take some photos for us. He is the closest by a long shot.
DeleteThanks for all the information on Mr Jaques. It added a nice historical element to this virtual ops series.
B.T.W. now that L.F.N.W. #160 is at Ralph's Grocery Warehouse it cannot be photographed anywhere else or you'll violate the time-space continuum which would be disastrous! ;)
ReplyDelete"The E.B.R.R. Delivers!" sounds like a great slogan for the railroad! Nice action from Northside Yard to the industries on the line. I wasn't familiar with Francis Lee Jaques but look at all of those Minnesota connections! If I'm ever neat the Chisolm area I'll certainly check out the layout at the museum. I love the idea of a real caboose being painted in honor of his layout.
Thanks for compliments Ralph! You're right the E.B.R.R. Delivers does sound like a great slogan. I wish I'd known this when I ordered the decals. The info on F.L. Jaques was very interesting and he does in deed have many MN connections. Hopefully you'll get a chance to visit the museum and see that good looking caboose in person not to mention his layout.
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