Nice!

Hey Scarp - fabulous collection of photos - really gives me a feel for the region where your former prototype ran!

Thanks for posting the link.

I agree!

I spent some time in Groton, Conn. in the Coast Guard in 1966.  I wasn't a model railroader or even particularly interested in trains at that time, but I did take a few train trips in the area.  I remember that the part of New England I was in seemed very rugged, almost like the Rock Mountains in miniature with rivers cutting through granite gorges and much of the right of way seemed to be blasted from the side of the same gorges.  I was surprised to see how wide open and flat the terrain in your pics were.  Very pretty country however.

I was glad to get detailed

I was glad to get detailed pictures of the turntable, as that's a scratchbuild project down the road.  I really regret though, not having made this  trip a year or two ago before the roundhouse burned down.  It's an impressively big structure - but it had to be to house the 2-10-4 Texas (T-3a) Types that lived there.

Those guys were just about a 100 feet in length!

If you want the bees knees in turntables ...

If you want the bees knees in turntable control, you'll enjoy the upcoming turntable and roundhouse series in MRH. Our own Les Halmos, in three parts, shows how he built his turntable and roundhouse, complete with the installation and programming of the New York Railway Supply controller.

The NYRS controller is not cheap ($400 ballpark) but it will give you spot on automatic turntable-garden track alignment, super simple operation, and be trouble-free for the life of your layout. It's the cadillac solution, but in my experience, this is one area where you will be glad you didn't scrimp.

Other less expensive mechanisms are not as simple to use, not as reliable, and won't be maintenance free like the NYRS system. This is clearly a case where you get what you pay for.

At any rate, Les goes step-by-step through the entire construction process - coming to MRH in issues 4, 5, and 6.

Thanks! That's a great

Nice

Nice! thanks for the heads up Joe, lord knows I wouldn't have read those otherwise! 

I've checked out that turntable controller. The price is a bit daunting though..........but I'll reserve judgement for a later date.

Nice!

If you've got some history to go with those you're all set to do a clinic on that railroad at the next NMRA National!

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,

Charlie

More photos added

The weather was too nice today, and as we already gone to the World's Fair yesterday, I had some time before the football games started in earnest. After washing the cabrio, I grabbed the camera, and ran out to a high bridge over the White River that I'd like to model on the former CV main line.

On the way back, I stopped back in White RIver Jct, where the Green Mountain Railway was waiting for departure of one of it's tourists runs.

Pictures are up here.