Here’s a neat video of a large granite quarry in Massachusetts, with a railroad that hauls the slabs from the quarry to the shop. The description on the video says the loco is a GE 80-ton center cab…
What a super idea for a layout !
The only snag I see is that the granite blocks piled up to form embankments would be criticised as “Oh , they wouldn’t do that” brigade .
And the living rock----what would you call it? viaduct? ----that the loco crosses would also be labelled improbable .
I do like seeing this heavy engineering stuff , thanks for the ‘heads up’ Ray , I shall be looking at that a few times .
Mike
alright Ray, we expect to see that replicated by Christmas…you can use your RS-3 to move the stone! The Stacked ‘walls’ remind me of the article by Ray about making stone viaducts in an old GRR I flipped through last evening-timing is everything…
Ray Dunakin said:
Here’s a neat video of a large granite quarry in Massachusetts, with a railroad that hauls the slabs from the quarry to the shop. The description on the video says the loco is a GE 80-ton center cab…
One of the guys in the operating group back East had such a feature. But since room was limited he just modeled the shop area from where the granite was shipped to the HO world beyond, the quarry was “off layout”. Very neat source of traffic for the railroad. The whole layout was “located” in New England with clearly recognizable town sites and the typical rolling stock of the area modeled.
Wow Ray, Thank you for that. I’m wanting to do my railroad as a stone quarry, although mine would be set around 1910. I’ll have steam channelers donkeys and lots of cables and rigging. That was some real eye candy and helps me think of some of the operations that I’d want to model. Very cool.
Yea, thats a few miles from here. Neat operation. These small railroads could be modeled actual size given a reasonable sized yard.
Bob McCown said:
Yea, thats a few miles from here. Neat operation. These small railroads could be modeled actual size given a reasonable sized yard.
and I do have a load of track left laying around…that’d be fun for a “Dad Layout”…good idea Bob