The roof which has a green tone is covered with PanPastel raw umber shade which takes away from the overall clean green look. |
Welcome, follow along with George Dutka in his journal which documents the additions and future thoughts for the HO scale White River Division model railroad and to his continuing historical New England railroad research. The White River Division is now in its 17th modeler's season. The "modeler's season" runs from November to April each year. Inspiration comes from the Boston and Maine, Rutland and Central Vermont Railway during the 1950's with additional posts by Don Janes and Peter Mumby.
Monday 30 September 2024
MEC Caboose
Saturday 28 September 2024
B&M WRJ Yard Office
Conductor - All aboard!
Friday 27 September 2024
September 2024 - This and That
Terry Nixon took this photo back in August 2024 of a CP train crossing Frank Lane. On the train was another of those ex-B&M covered hoppers. |
A view from the 1960's or 1970's of the engine I mentioned a week ago in Springbank park. Bruce Douglas passed this one along. |
Rochester and Southern seen from the airport entrance. It appears they have a neat looking yard tower, unfortunately this is the closest we could get. |
Looking down from the crossing we could see the local switcher working in front of the tower. There is more of the yard south of the tower that is visible from the Airport cellular use parking log. |
The Fairport viewing platform and caboose in late afternoon. Railfanning here for lighting is better later in the day. |
I did do some wandering around through town. There is a storage facility across the track where I took this photo in the morning. |
The old Fairport NY electric line station. This line is a walking bike trail now at this end of town. |
The Rochester Amtrak station looked different to me from what I saw in the past. As it turns out this is a new station built in 2017. |
Thursday 26 September 2024
Throwback Thursday - Pinafore Park Railway
Locomotive number 3 is stopped with its passenger car at the station in Pinafore Park on May 27, 1990. |
Here is my “souvenir ticket” dating back to late May in 1990. |
Wednesday 25 September 2024
Tuesday 24 September 2024
WOD-NMRA Breslau Train Show
The Western Ontario Division of the NFR-NMRA are having their 3rd annual train show in Breslau, Ontario which is a short drive from Kitchener, Ontario. This train show was in the past held in Paris during the Icey month of January. Since then the show has evolved to much more than just a train show. There are many more display and a nice number of clinics that can help new and old modelers with their projects. You might want to check it out if in the area...George Dutka
NER 2024
We visited and rode the train at the Rochester & Genesee Valley RR Museum. Don or I will cover it in another post. We also saw one layout on our way home Saturday and also the Hemlock train show. I had to be home Saturday evening so Saturday was whatever we could see or do on our way home.
We were disappointed to not be able to see much of the contest room as models could not be displayed till Friday night and once again if you were there between 8 and 9am before judging. So is it turned out what we saw was maybe 6 or 7 models on display when we went through the room. Seeing these models is one of the favorite parts of conventions and RPM meets. Not sure why the time was so limited.
There was more to do and see than we could take in during our time at the convention but we had a great time there...George Dutka
There was a free-mo layout being set up in the vendors room which seemed to take a full day to get up and running. This was one of the roadway scenes I liked. |
A mill complex to be judged. There was more photos to be judged than models when we visited the room. |
A model to be judged in the contest room. |
In the contest room this structure I believe is by Tom Oxnard although we did not see Tom at the convention. |
Monday 23 September 2024
NER - NMRA Convention 2024
The yard tower today is only used by the signal department I was told. This is at the end of Goodman St. at East Main, Rochester, NY. One can get really close here without trespassing. |
Coffee bean acrylic paint was one tone suggested to us. |
One of Jordan's models. |
One could also learn about decoder buddy at one of the tables. |
Sunday 22 September 2024
Fire Hall - Brick and Wood
My AHM fire hall has one brick wall and all else is wood. Is there a prototype for that mix of materials...yes there is in Mooretown, Ontario. |
Mooretown Fire Hall at the museum in town. |
The hose drying tower. |
Back and side walls |
Under construction. |
Wednesday 18 September 2024
Tuesday 17 September 2024
Road Trip
Don Janes and I will be away from Wednesday to Saturday attending the NER - NMRA convention in Rochester, NY. A recent decision to go. I will not be posting anything for a few days after Wednesday...see you when we return...George Dutka
Monday 16 September 2024
Bellows Crossing
Sunday 15 September 2024
Stonetown Model Railroad Association
This scene will be one of the locations in St. Mary's area that CN switches. |
This sign hangs at the far end of the layout. I don't think it ever was used by the CN. |
This is an interesting faded and graffiti car. |
A mock-up of a freighter in Goderich harbor, one of the scenes they plan to model. |
Saturday 14 September 2024
B&M Rapido 44 Tonner
These B&M Rapido engines sold fast in my area leaving me with only one number choice...117. |
Friday 13 September 2024
St. Mary's and Stratford road trip
VIA 84 arriving St. Mary's |
Next it was over to the local community center to drop off the engines at the Stonetown Railway Association Club. The HO layout on the left side of the room is all new. It is DCC powered and also signaled and a long way from what once was there. The membership is really small though, only 4 members...but they seem ambitious. It will be interesting to see how the layout turns out.
Next stop was the station in Stratford. We got lucky as the GEXR power was tied up out front of the station. It appears it did not run this day to Goderich. The last few times by here it was quite and empty., so seeing the power was nice. From there we headed over to Paris and the CN main line which did not result in any action. With the afternoon almost gone and a bit of a drive home we called it a day...George Dutka
Although the layout is far from complete there is a good amount of detailed and weathered equipment there. |
One can see the old sign when the club was open to the public. Today with the rebuild an appointment is required. |
GEXR power on layover in Stratford, |