Bruce Chandler said:
Nashville, Illinois…just a bit east of St. Louis Missouri…;
And not to be found via Google or MapQuest. If you go past the big barn, you’ve gone too far.
And I’ve dun that more than once…
May you all have a spanking good time this weekend, Andy! I wouldn’t worry too much about October’s date being the Canadian Thanksgiving; if you move the date you’ll bang straight into something else anyway. And, by the way, it’s not the huge thing up here that the U.S. Thanksgiving appears to be anyway; it’s a 3-day weekend, which might make travel easier for some. I can’t imagine it stopping many Canucks from going to an ops session.
My philosophy is to set a date and keep it firm, rain or shine, no confusion… I admit to having three switching locations under a breezeway roof, however…
Ken Brunt said:
Bruce Chandler said:
Nashville, Illinois…just a bit east of St. Louis Missouri…;
And not to be found via Google or MapQuest. If you go past the big barn, you’ve gone too far.
And I’ve dun that more than once…
Actually the County Line is a better marker…
You know it’s really tough to depend on volunteer labor. I volunteered to help with the pics and Andy sent them to me complete with captions. I complained back that the format he sent them in was too much work to post. So Andy finxed them and sent them again. I’m finally feeling guilty enough about my promise to get them posted so here goes.
Dan & Dave working the Industrial Park
(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Andy/AndyOps042013-01.jpg)
Hotshot freight Running North to Bluefield
(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Andy/AndyOps042013-02.jpg)
Hotshot freight passing the industrial park heading to Bluefield
(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Andy/AndyOps042013-03.jpg)
BLU-MEM train departing Woodlawn heading to Memphis
(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Andy/AndyOps042013-04.jpg)
EVWR Local MCL-1 running Hilltop Subdivision heading to Evansville
(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Andy/AndyOps042013-05.jpg)
Trains at Memphis in the foreground, Evansville in the background
(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Andy/AndyOps042013-06.jpg)
Bluefield yards on the lower level…
(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Andy/AndyOps042013-15.jpg)
Jan working the Bluefield yards
(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Andy/AndyOps042013-07.jpg)
Joe’s train & Ric running thru bluefield
(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Andy/AndyOps042013-08.jpg)
Joe’s train leaving Sparta running North
(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Andy/AndyOps042013-09.jpg)
Ric’s train runnin thru Woodlawn on Bluestone Southern trackage
(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Andy/AndyOps042013-10.jpg)
Train Leaving Evansville, heading North
(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Andy/AndyOps042013-11.jpg)
train running North on the Southebound track on the Hilltop Subdivision
(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Andy/AndyOps042013-12.jpg)
Ric in background running a train… deepwells are entering the Bluefield Yards… The conrail boxcars are sitting at Jane’s metalworks milling…
(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Andy/AndyOps042013-14.jpg)
Same location, different view…
(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Andy/AndyOps042013-13.jpg)
@Andy - I Did my best to keep them in order after re-naming the files so they could be uploaded. I hope they are close :]
Ah Ha…someone did take pitchers…I was wonderin…
OK. October is looking better!
Jon, thanks… Much appreciated…
Bob Templer also took some pictures on Sat, but he’s been quite busy himself, to get them to me…
Doug said he’s shooting for the June session, and we may have Marty & Carrie as well…
May 18 & 19 is a Club railroad tour…
Thanks Jon!
We all love seeing Ric in his Lederhosen
Its all for you Rooster
Thank you Ric!
Carrie says we’re coming up evening before June 1st for two days.
thanks for the photos, now I know my way around,NOT.
OK how about a track plan drawn on paper and photo posted…
Marty:
Found this on Andy’s mylargescale photos:
The house is at the upper left, Hilltop Subdivision is over on the right, and Sparta Subdivision is on the bottom.
I’ll draw up something in Illustrator later and try to illustrate it better.
EDIT:
This is as close as I feel I can get to Andy’s track layout, but not necessarily to scale.
The indoor storage yard is off the track to the right; I’ll add that later.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1998236/bluestone_southern.jpg
Thanks Robbie, the line drawing is better for my printer than the dark colored one. It needs a white back ground rather than green.
Marty, if you click that link, there are some pitcures of my track plan down near the middle to the bottom of the page…
Robbie did a good line drawing… thx Robbie
http://www.largescalecentral.com/forums/topic/17598/bluestone-southern-ops-session/view/page/4
Didn’t think about printing it. Have a nice white background:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1998236/bluestone_southern_white_background.jpg
Perfect, thanks
Great job on the track plan Robbie. That really helps.
Very sorry , I already told Andy we can’t make it. Something else came up. Maybe the Aug one.
Wow Andy thats a lot of track and nice looking layout. That would take up my my entire front yard plus some. Nice work,
Shawn, thank you… It’s still a work in progress, but it’s getting there…