Vernon River
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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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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.
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Vernon River / Murray Harbor subdivision freight traffic analysis [PT. 1 Researching Traffic Types]
Newspaper archives identify Vernon River’s inbound and outbound railway traffic, from potatoes and livestock to coal and feed.