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Updated: 06 Dec 2007, 22:20 ET
(Created 07 Jun 2004)
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S. Berliner, III's

Model Railroad Page 7

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MODEL RAILROADING Page 7

Continuation of SB,III's MODEL RAILROADING Page, et seq.

This site has now been visited

times since the counter was installed.

NOTE: It would appear that my pages are limited by AT&T, without warning, to 30kB! Thus, I have been forced to add this continuation page and separate pages to fit the lengthy Berlinerwerke saga in HO and Z scales.

INDEX

[To conserve space, this index has been truncated by removing some detail links;
go to the pages indicated - they are each indexed fully.]

On the MAIN mrr page:

Sunrise Trail Division (STD) of the
Northeastern Region (NER) of the
National Model Railroad Association (NMRA)
Long Island - Sunrise Trail Chapter (LIST) of the
National Railway Historical Society (NRHS)
Long Island Live Steamers, and model railroading miscellany at the end.

On MRR Continuation Page 2:

Vest Pocket Railroads You Can Model

(continued on MRR page 5):

Marion River Carry Railroad.

(now moved to its own page)

Degnon Terminal Railroad, plus

Murrer's Sidings

Kearney Sidings
as well as (on an LIRR page):

Blissville/Laurel Hill,

Blissville Sidings

Laurel Hill Sidings
and Maspeth and Fresh Pond -

Maspeth Yard

Fresh Pond Yard

The Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Railroad segment was moved to its own separate page on 07 Sep 99.

New York & Atlantic Railway.

On MRR Continuation Page 3:

Model Railroading Miscellany

PRR/Wrong Island #007 Cabin Car

Garden Railway Scales

Making a Stacker from a Front End Loader

Berlinerwerke-ALCo RSD-1m

Model Railroading HELP!

On MRR Continuation Page 4:

Great Northern/Western Fruit Express Reefers -

(moved to MRR page 4 on 07 May 01).

Railroad Grades

Model Railroad Photography

More Model Railroad Miscellany, with

Hobbytown of Boston (Bear Locomotive Co.).

(moved from RR Page 3 and greatly amplified 07 Jun 2004).

HOMABED^® Roadbed.

RMC Down the Drain?

(06 Dec 07)

On the Great Northern/Western Fruit Express Page:

Great Northern/Western Fruit Express Reefers

(moved to MRR page 4 from the main page 07 May 2001

and to this page 10 Nov 2004).

On Z-Scale pages:

Z-Scale
Z-Scale Narrow Gauge (really)
Scale and Gauge
Scale Conversion Table
Ztrack Magazine
Z-Scale Miscellany
Z-Scale Wiring Conventions
Z-Scale Vehicles and Märklin Rubber Autos
and much more on Page 2 and noted below.
Sub-Z-Scale Page with

Half-Z Scale - 1:440 Tiny Trains and even 1:900 Tiniest Trains!

[To conserve space even further, the index for material on separate pages has been removed; see the main model RR page.

Visit the courtesy and official home pages listed in the index on the main MRR page.

You may also wish to jump to SB,III's RAILROAD Page.

MODEL RAILROADING Page 7
(continuation of Model RR Page, et seq.)

Before proceding, let me recommend Kurumi's SignMaker, which allows one with a good computer, an image processor, and a color printer (or access to one at Kinko's or the like) to create and print "Big Green" Interstate, federal, or state highway signs!

Oyster Bay Marine Turntable

(moved from RR Page 3 and greatly amplified 07 Jun 2004).

Here's a type of turntable you won't normally see (not that most railfans "normally" see any turntables - we are triply blessèd here on Long Island), it's a QUARTER-TURN marine turntable. I wasn't sure if it belonged on my Naval and Maritime pages or on my Railroad pages; I opted for the latter but now, with far more pictures, it's here, with links back there and to my LIRR pages.

It's at the old Jakobsen's Shipyard ( Jake's) in Oyster Bay, where Loco #35 will be restored, and hard by where the new Oyster Bay rail museum will be built. Jake's is where so very many RR tugboats originated, those with the rakishly canted foredeck and level wheelhouse with matching roof.

The pit was filled with sawgrass when I was first there ca. 09 May 1996, and again in Jun 99, so I'd also given you a diagram.

[The photographs are thumbnails; click on the pictures for the full images:]

Jake's ¼-turn TT Diagram
Images by and © 1999 S. Berliner, III

That last picture shows a W/B new LIRR control cab bi-level going hard by immediately to the south.

The whole area was been changed for a waterfront park but the marine turntable was preserved; I was over there for Bay Day, representing Engine #35 and the Oyster Bay RR Museum, only a few blocks to the east, on 06 Jun 2004, without a camera, of course (it was raining), liked what they'd done (new grading, new ties, new gravel, new visibility), and went back 07 Jun 2004 for more photos:

3 - L - view WNW / 4 - R - view NW

That left picture above is weird! The building appears to be floating in the air!

5 - L - view NW / 6 - R - view N

There's the trusty Neon above R and below L!

7 - L - view NE / 8 - R - view E

Somebody had the good sense, not only to save the turntable, but to drag the cradle/carriage/trolley out of the weeds and re-emplace it. That last shot is a detail of the "puller" pulleys/sheaves that allowed the trolley to be moved without a switch loco; one assumes there was a donkey engine somewhere abouts.

What is missing in all this is that there were huge marine erecting shops to the N, beyond the end of track in picture 6; all that's left of Jakobsen's Shipyard now are the two smaller sheds on either side and the medium sized one to the E (picture 8) and the main pier, which now houses the Nantucket lightship.

I suppose I should have shot the lightship, as well, and measured the track of the track (wide-gauge); this whole scene just begs to be modeled. Back I go!

HOMABED^®

HOMABED^®, has been bought out by Richard Jayne, of California Roadbed, Co., Inc. HOMABED^®, a milled roadbed made from HOMASOTE^® (thick cardboard used for layouts), is available in scales from G (1:32) down to Z (1:220). Straight and curvable sections, turnout blocks, shims, strips, yard plates, and more, in thicknesses from 0.350" to 0.175", are available.

Speaking of roadbed on which to lay track, don't bother laying your own any longer! I found the greatest product imaginable; it's a kit for casting tracks (really!):