2020
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A sunny winter’s day prototype visit.
A winter field visit to Vernon River, PEI, to study the former railway right-of-way, landscape, buildings and roads for an HO layout.
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Testing the track plan.
Testing the full-size Vernon River track plan with HO cars and No. 8 switches before finalizing the modular layout and staging.
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Benchwork!
Building two modular benchwork sections and removable staging cassettes for a nearly uncompressed HO model of Vernon River.
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Scratch-building CN’s 40′ Wood End Bunker Reefers [PT:2 Doors and Corner Bracing]
Building reefer doors, Grandt Line hardware, coupler pockets and thin-styrene corner bracing for two HO-scale CNR wood-end bunker reefers.
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Vernon River / Murray Harbour Subdivision traffic analysis [PT:2 Researching Traffic Amounts and Crunching the Numbers]
1950s CN carload data reveals typical train length, traffic balance and commodity flows through Vernon River.