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Frequent poster 821 posts edfhinton Frequent poster 821 posts
edfhinton

I have finalized the Dover yard plan.  Between the rrpicturearchives site, help noticing things in threads here on MRH, Google satellite view, and a second visit to the site today, I finally was able to make corrections and adjustments to get my Dover yard plan pretty close to what existed around the time I am modelling (or a few years later anyway and a reasonable belief it was there in my period.) Compression isn't too bad, maybe 10%-15% tops for the portion of the yard I am modelling.  I added a couple spurs and moved a couple industry buildings a tad closer to the main to allow my benchwork to include them.

I will post a comment with the pictures of my plan and some relevant Google satellite view images as well as links with comments to some of the key pictures at rrpicturearchives that I based my final plan modifications on.

I will have to move some track I already had layed out but had not glued yet, so worst case I have a few incorrectly cut flex track sections to reuse someplace else later.

-Ed

 

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Proprietor - Northern New England Scenic (V3). N scale NH B&M Eastern and western coastal routes in the mid-1950s.

https://nnescenicmodelrr.com

 
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edfhinton Frequent poster 821 posts
edfhinton

Pictures of the yard plan

So the first picture below is a Google satellite view of the area now.

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The mainline still gets used but no other tracks remain.  But thanks to the various pictures and my site visits, here is my track plan for roughly 1959 (on the assumption that it did not appear likely in the mid-1960s pictures that the track arrangement would have changed much if at all.)

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The spurs and buildings at the bottom are not quite right, but that's one of my compromises to allow spots for operations.  Between the two tracks that approach the turntable, you will see a VERY tiny rectangle, and then a rectangle below the lower of those two tracks.  These were the subject of much investigation, starting from when I thought I had photographed a well head through various discussions and other photos to realize it is where the diesel pump was for fueling the diesel locos.  The VERY tiny rectangle is the diesel pump apparatus for refueling the locos.  The larger rectangle is a small building that I have not yet determined the nature of, but I will definitely be including it.  The links below show some of the many rrpicturearchive photos that helped me to figure out the track arrangement around that area and approaching the turntable.

 
The diesel pump remnants still there are visible in the satellite view when zoomed in enough, and match where I found them at the site.  I have circled it in red.  You can just barely make this out in the larger image earlier in this post.
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The links below are a couple of the pictures that helped me decide on the sidings and spur arrangements to use on the industry side. The first one appears to be taken from the Oak St bridge and the second one from the other end looking back towards the bridge.
 
 
There is still some approximation and guesswork in the plan, but I feel pretty good about what I am ending up with and the operations it will allow as the start of the visible portion of the overall two deck layout.   The curved spur turning towards the bottom at the right end of the plan is for potential future narrow shelf expansion around the walls if I ever get track rights to do so.  it would allow me to extend my NH line down through Newmarket into Exeter.  But that will not even be considered until after everything already planned is done, so for the next few years I will just use it as an extra spur.
 
-Ed
 

 

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Proprietor - Northern New England Scenic (V3). N scale NH B&M Eastern and western coastal routes in the mid-1950s.

https://nnescenicmodelrr.com

 
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Bill Brillinger Moderator 4,904 posts
Bill Brillinger

Research, Research, Research....

Looks Good Ed!

Isn't research fun?

Bill Brillinger

Modeling the BNML in HO Scale, Admin for the RailPro User Group, and owner of Precision Design Co.
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edfhinton Frequent poster 821 posts
edfhinton

Absolutely!

The research was definitely fun.  While my 'fun factor' in the hobby doesn't derive from too high a level of prototype detail precision, I do want to get close enough that pictures taken on my layout will be recognizable compared to the prototype photos, and it is fun tracking down the pieces of the puzzle to get to that level of info,  Today I will be finishing laying out the track for the yard except for the turntable portion that has yet to arrive.

-Ed

 

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Proprietor - Northern New England Scenic (V3). N scale NH B&M Eastern and western coastal routes in the mid-1950s.

https://nnescenicmodelrr.com

 
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