Santa Fe in China Basin

[PEIR]

To repeat, this is an awesome thread.

Thanks to you all who've posted pictures.

I agree I am very intrigued with this concept and am looking forward to seeing the layout progress. CN used ferry's here to transport loco/pass/freight cars from PEI to New Brunswick. The ferry's also carried car and truck traffic. Rail traffic was transported at night and vehicles during the day.

http://shipfax.blogspot.ca/2010/12/out-of-drydock-again.html

http://yourrailwaypictures.com/OldDiesels/John_Hamilton_Gray_July_1974.jpg

http://yourrailwaypictures.com/OldDiesels/Inside_Railferry_MV_Abegweit_PEI_toNB.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51896204@N08/7720924230

The rails are now gone as are the ferry's. Replaced by a bridge

http://msride.ca/tag/confederation-bridge/



 

[railnerd]

Can you move the last turnout on the left all the way to the left edge and use a temporary bridge or hinged section for the tail of the track?

heh.  the problem with that is in the current location, that tail track ends at the wall.   

-Dave

[railnerd]

Very anxious to try this new toy out:

[railnerd]

Decided to shift gears away from building turnouts for a bit; and focus on building the Pier 52 ferry slip as a Free-moN module.  Here is a look at the prototype:




I know MC is a stripwood kinda guy, but I'm more in the Nils camp and prefer building large structures out of styrene.  First things first, I spent some quality time in TurboCAD and drew up templates for the bents. Bought some styrene from the hobby shop and went to work.





NOTE: That long stretch of the pier will be my first attempt at doing casting— I'm thinking I can save some time by casting a bunch of the wharf bents from a handful of masters.

Started building the pier, and thankfully caught myself before I assembled a mirror image of the prototype:



Ran out of styrene again, so had to stop here:

[railnerd]

Car float kit arrived this past week— planning on how to make this all fit together and operate smoothly.

[JoeD]

Interesting and fun thread...hope it continues.  I have been going back and forth wether to start a State Belt or Alameda Belt series of modules.  I live in the Bay Area in the late 70's through the 90's and loved my communtes up and down the Bay on SP.  Favorite was always the Del Monte to the coast.  I also really enjoyed the progress of the switch and seeing something like that in action would be a treat.  I live in Southern Oregon now and as far as N scale modelers go, very few of us are active, so we live vicariously though these builds.  One of these months I want to get back down to SF when the Fre Mo club is going and latch my modules to it. 

Joe
MTl

[railnerd]

Still working on the car float, getting the rails attached.

[JoeD]

Glad to see you are still at it.  What kit is that barge?   Not to highjack this thread, but here are a the first two structures for the back of the module...     In a week or so I'll get a new thread going...good to see you making progress.

Cheers

Joe

[railnerd]

That looks awesome.  Scott in our group is doing a multi-section module based on the area around the Pier 43 slip:

[JoeD]

That looks amazing.  The portal in the picks I posted is the one for pier 43 if I remember correctly.  I have always been fond of the MR article on HO model proposed for the State belt...I think Gordon Odegard drew that one up.  Nice easy solution to getting you trains to run in a loop, but still feel like point to point.  Again, great work, keep us posted...Just found the article...in the MR April 1980 along with a nice feature on the Alameda Belt.
Joe

[Chris333]

That's some sweet carfloat action right there!

[railnerd]

Glad to see you are still at it.  What kit is that barge?

Oops, forgot to answer that question.  It is one of Pete Nolan's ATSF barges.  I'm probably going to scratch build some of the 2-track barges as well.

I'm still hopeful for removable floats; but Scott is planning a 3-track float that is permanently affixed to Pier43— with plans on an attachable cassette to facilitate loading and unloading.

We're both targeting having something ready for a GTE show in September.

-Dave

[JoeD]

http://www.signaturepress.com/forth.html  I have my reservation in for this one.

This is what I was thinking behind the Pier 29 building 

Joe

[Spades]

http://www.signaturepress.com/forth.html  I have my reservation in for this one.


Joe

William Kaufman is passionate and knowledgeable on all things SF Belt.  I am sure it will be a great book.  Most new Signature books start at around $80.00. Remember food shelter and retirement are all over rated, so count me in for a copy.

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[Spades]

Glad to see you are still at it.  What kit is that barge?   Not to highjack this thread, but here are a the first two structures for the back of the module...     In a week or so I'll get a new thread going...good to see you making progress.

Cheers

Joe

Joe
Any chance of the pier 29 structure  and the pier 43 headhouse are going to be made available for purchase?  It would only sit on a shelf but I would like to purchase the Dayton tower if that was available as a kit as well.    I look forward to Mirco Trains SP SW-1500 release.  I would like thank you for posting here on the Railwire, I would think it would require thick skin. anyway I think it is cool you show you modelling here on the Railwire.

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