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Prolific poster 2,152 posts Scarpia Prolific poster 2,152 posts
Scarpia

I was entering my home town last evening (Waterbury Vermont, which is on the New England Central or former Central Vermont mainline) and my SO yelled TRAIN!

I pulled over, and checked it out.

For those of you who are not in the know, the NEC is replacing most of it's northern mainline with single heavy duty welded rail, a process that's quite fascinating.

What I observed here though, was something that may be of use to modern modelers who are looking for a small scene or industry.

The NEC was using a siding in town, and an empty lot next to it, to use a wheeled bucket loader to fill gondolas with stone that must have arrived by truck from a local, non-rail served  quarry. To my inexperienced eye, the stone looked heavier than ballast, and I'm guessing it was used more as fill where needed, but was clearly for the work on the main.

This post would truly be useless without pictures, so here you go!  Note I only had my iPhone with me, so the pics are not the greatest quality.

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TTX101 Regular poster 484 posts
TTX101

Gravel loading & gondolas

Yes - it would make an interesting little scene.  Being interested in the paper industry and forest products, I could envision a similar scene, with branches and stumps going into a large portable chipper and then loaded into wood chip hoppers.  Both scenes could fit into tight spots on a layout, and add interest and traffic.

This is just a shot in the dark, but I wonder if New England Central gets any motive power from the Union Pacific . . .

 

Rog.38

 
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jarhead Prolific poster 1,734 posts
jarhead

Motive Power from UP

Those motors in the photos are from Florida East Coast. FEC bought those motors from UP. They did not change the paint job as I understand, because they were recently painted by UP before they were sold to FEC and the paint was still under warranty.

 

 

Nick Biangel 

USMC
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Chris VanderHeide cv_acr Super User 2,352 posts
Chris VanderHeide cv_acr

Paint

Warranty??? I'm pretty sure that doesn't have anything to do with anything. Often shortline railroads will leave secondhand engines in original paint with just patches for the new number and reporting marks.

Repainting into your own colours is expensive.

Chris van der Heide

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