This is the final group of photos. These are of the areas that do not have scenery or all of the structures built. I do have card board foot prints in place to hold the industries spot and give the operators a idea of where and what they will be for our OPS sessions. So here goes.
Looking East across the Watersmeet Engine Terminal at Watersmeet, MI and into Ironwood, MI. A lot of detail work and building construction left to be done in all of the following areas. But progress not to bad for starting with a totally blank canvas basement just 11 years ago.
More of the Engine Terminal & Ironwood. The track in front on the lower level is what will be the town of Watersmeet and it will be a branch line.
Looking back to the West over the Watersmeet Engine Terminal
This is a photo of what will be the town of Watersmeet, MI which will be a branch line. The two industries shown here are the Standard Oil Depot on the left & the Hatten Lumber Co. on the right. The building in the back ground is Peterson Bros. Mill in Ironwood
Looking into Ironwood, MI with the Peterson Bros. Mill in front
Still looking East thru Ironwood. The near building is Olsen & Bergquist Co. - Sash & Door Mfg., the building farther back and to the left is Wm Nash & Co. - Canned Fruit & Vegetables. There will also be a pickle industry on the same siding. The window well will be the downtown area of Ironwood, much work to do.
Ironwood Passenger Station in front, Erickson Hardware Co. to the left. Cards show the location & name of the industry that will be placed there.
The industry near the edge of the layout is J.B. Patrick & Co. Furniture Also in this photo I show the mouse hole that leads into the Ashland Classification Yard. There will be a scratch built structure here that will hide this hole & will be served by the siding to the left.
Ashland Classification Yard
Asland Yard showing the engine storage tracks and 130' Walthers Turntable. The mose hole in the back right leads to the off line storage yard. This yard is where the ready to go trains are stored until the engineer takes them out onto the layout to do his pickups & drop offs. The control panel on the far right is the one used to operate all the switches in the off line storage yard from outside the room. The other one is to control the turntable and shut off the engine storage tracks.
The off line storage yard in the utility area of my basement. We land grab wherever we can for more real estate.
Had to have a couple of water softener tanks move to pull this off.
Looking West back toward Ironwood. At this time I don't know if I will do anything with this window well.
This area is the Ashland Industrial Area and as you can see only two buildings complete - E. Garnish & Sons Co. (scratch built), and way in the distance is Farmers Supply Co. E. Garnish was the first one to be judged for my Master of Structure NMRA Award, I received 94 out of 125 pts, only need 87.5. The only other two structures - C. Reiss Coal Co. in the front and Holland Furnace Co. way in the back on left. in this area are under construction and the balance have name cards and cardboard foot prints. There will be 10 total industries in this area, some will be kits and others will be scratch built.
Here we are looking West back thru town, with Farmers Supply Co. on the left & Holland Furnace Co. on the right. There is a 90' manual turntable for turning locos and a local switcher to help with the switch moves.
This is the drop bridge used to get into Ashland Ind. Area. It is only up when there is a train that has to get into town.
Another photo of the off line storage yard. I had to mount the turnout motor on top as there is ne easy access below.
OK there you are guys all of the pictures to show the complete CNW - Peninsula Div. RR I hope you enjoy them. Now I to get busy and start build the structures that are needed.
Richard - Superintendent CNW - Peninsula Div
Blog for additional photos is - http://mrhmag.com/blog/richard_harden
