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General Discussion => N and Z Scales => Topic started by: Ian MacMillan on August 18, 2007, 02:55:40 PM

Title: Code 40 for Tom
Post by: Ian MacMillan on August 18, 2007, 02:55:40 PM

Check it....but I bet you have seen this already, Chris too.

(http://www.bronx-terminal.com/wp-content/uploads/brn1_4.jpg)
http://www.bronx-terminal.com

Title: Re: Code 40 for Tom
Post by: tom mann on August 18, 2007, 03:10:02 PM

Yeah that's scary good work...Chris is doing that too.

Title: Re: Code 40 for Tom
Post by: Chris333 on August 18, 2007, 03:15:29 PM

Mine is C55 so I can use flex for the sidings:
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n255/Chris333_33/IMG_3595.jpg)
(http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1476/28overheadrails_001crop.jpg)

Tim's work is great!

Title: Re: Code 40 for Tom
Post by: Nelson on August 18, 2007, 03:40:10 PM

A unusable dead ended turnout? ???

Title: Re: Code 40 for Tom
Post by: Ed Kapuscinski on August 18, 2007, 03:56:03 PM

It's funny, I just saw where that belongs Chris!

(I'm in NYC for the weekend, and it's visible from the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel)

Title: Re: Code 40 for Tom
Post by: John on August 18, 2007, 03:56:56 PM

Thats a gap cutter nightmare

Title: Re: Code 40 for Tom
Post by: 3rdrail on August 18, 2007, 04:03:12 PM

Quote from: Ed Kapuscinski on August 18, 2007, 03:56:03 PM

It's funny, I just saw where that belongs Chris!

(I'm in NYC for the weekend, and it's visible from the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel)

Boy things have chsanged since I lived there - the Lincoln Tunnel entrance has moved to the Bronx!!!  ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Code 40 for Tom
Post by: Chris333 on August 18, 2007, 04:04:52 PM

He decided to glue the whole thing to plywood before cutting gaps:
http://www.bronx-terminal.com/wp-content/uploads/n5.jpg
http://www.bronx-terminal.com/wp-content/uploads/n4.jpg

Title: Re: Code 40 for Tom
Post by: Chris333 on August 18, 2007, 04:08:28 PM

It wasn't in the Bronx, it was right next to Penn Station:
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n255/Chris333_33/DuringEL1972.jpg)

If I modeled the Erie terminal in the Bronx I'd have 7" radius curves, I didn't want that.

Title: Re: Code 40 for Tom
Post by: Nelson on August 18, 2007, 04:24:22 PM

Aha! this explains it.
From his site:
 "If you look closely in the CAD drawing there are two rails protruding from the right side of the lower turnout. These rails led into the engine house and never actually crossed through the turnout, they crossed over it. To get to the engine house the crew had to lay steel rail across the top of the turnout, and drive over it!"

Title: Re: Code 40 for Tom
Post by: Chris333 on August 18, 2007, 04:40:05 PM

Here is the CNJ Terminal that Tim is modeling:
http://www.bronx-terminal.com/wp-content/uploads/bronxxlarge.jpg

Here is the area of the removable rails to the engine house:
http://www.port-kelsey.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/Bronx5L.jpg

The trackplan:
http://www.bronx-terminal.com/wp-content/uploads/brp4-12.jpg
http://www.bronx-terminal.com/wp-content/uploads/brp6-9.jpg
http://www.bronx-terminal.com/wp-content/uploads/part-7-plan.jpg

Title: Re: Code 40 for Tom
Post by: up1950s on August 18, 2007, 05:34:38 PM

Very nice work , and the nuttiest arrangement I ever saw .

Title: Re: Code 40 for Tom
Post by: SquirrelHollow on August 18, 2007, 07:58:33 PM

That guy's work is superb.  I was following his progress in HO, which was short one major section.  I guess I fell behind the times.  Gonna go take a look at this code 40 work.

Thanks for the refresher.