Two liters of MOXIE is wild,
Not this happy since a long while…
Twelve can packs of DIET
Could barely stay quiet,
Bought the two twelve packs they had there tonight!
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SHAWS in Whitinsville, Mass.
Is where I found this great cache…
A delicious way
To end the day,
Sure hope they have more in the back!!!!! ❤
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Jonathan Caswell
Layout Design Elements,
A railroad modeler’s defence…
‘Gainst unreal ideas
That bring one to tears,
Look to the prototype hence!
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At a Connecticut loading dock,
A switching design loudly pops….
An Inglenook
Said someone in a book,
Makes a switching puzzle that rocks!
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Certain real boxcars,
Are have doors damaged by sudden jars…
Or loads have shifted
An engineer gifted,
Learns which side of the dock a car is better to be parked!
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This game I’ll reproduce,
The prototype is of use….
These pictures found
In archival ground,
Good modeling is real life—reduced!
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Jonathan Caswell
REAL-LIFE INGLENOOK POSES PROTOTYPE PUZZLES
Stuart Pate, from Bolton, Connecticut USA, took these shots of a prototype Inglenook sidings that is in daily use in East Hartford, Connecticut on the Connecticut Southern Railroad. “It is used as a baled pulp transloading point for a small tissue mill that is located away from the tracks,” Stuart points out. “As you can see from the photos, it has the required three tracks, two of which are at a loading dock that holds two cars per side, while the third is used as a ‘hold’ track before and during switching.
“Normally, loaded cars are either brought in on the arriving train or stored on the right hand track. Upon arrival, the conductor of the train talks with the forklift operator on the dock to determine which cars have been emptied, and to receive instructions regarding the placement of the loads. Sometimes an outbound empty may be ‘buried’ behind a load, or a car may have a defective door on one side and have to be swung to the other side of the dock for access. Some of the inbound cars may have priority over others for unloading.
“For the modeler, this represents a simple prototype for a very small and operationally flexible layout. Scenicly it’s nothing more than the three ballasted tracks and a wedge shaped dock with a telephone pole and small red equipment box. It wouldn’t have to handle only boxcars like the prototype. Flatcars and gondolas loaded with steel, lumber, curbing stones, or farming equipment could conceivably arrive here. The forklift could be replaced by a mobile crane as needed.”
When I asked Stuart why he had such an intimate knowledge of this little scene, he confessed, “Yes, I’m an engineer on the CSOR in East Hartford, and I get to switch the ‘prototype inglenook’ almost daily. It’s a small part of the East Hartford yard. In one of the photos, you can see some track to the right, so if you had a spare couple of inches it would also be possible to have a length of track against the backdrop displaying some favorite cars.”
Article and pictures reproduced from Page 73, May 2008 on-line issue of http://www.carendt.com/small-layout-scrap-book/page-73-2008/
Practice in city driving
Thankful sufficient timing…
Route memory
Made it easy,
Without my wife’s reminding!
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–Jonathan Caswell
He going back a few years
When people held fewer fears…
About burning coal
For energy goals,
When a coal train regularly appears!
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Not using behemoth power,
A giant producing huge watts-per-hour…
But a cool RS-1
To get the job done,
Or a steam engine with cinder shower!
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Close down this plant—Why?
So you got a little smut in your eye…
Berry bushes poke through–
Gonna wipe out thorn bushes, too?
Expensive scrubbers can clean up the sky.
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Most of all–coal trains bring jobs,
Labor and wind farms at odds…
How many men
Does solar need attend,
Its labor needs at large?
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Moving coal cars is fun,
As models–not the real ones–
Although on my pike
I’ll do what I like,
But not with the same need of funds!
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–Jonathan Caswell
woe betide them that try
to se in stone what needs more time…
My turn table lost?*
without further cost?
Then I looked near bed time!
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I thought I’d lost my lead
To that tyrn table, but indeed…
A curve could be made
With large enough radius laid,
To satisfy the using of steam.
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A switch I’d previously cut in,
To one engine stall could run…
The other could Branch
From the turn table switch–
My space problem was overcome!
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Envisioning a massive water wheel,
Fed by a sluice pipe has appeal…
This motorized–
Already planned (what a surprise?),
For which the tourists would positively SQUEAL!
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And then, the bridge over a mill dam flood—
If I wanted, a covered bridge wouldn’t take TOO MUCH blood…!
Just for light tourist trains–
Steel reinforced all the same–
An occasional short freight could be good!
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I wish I could draw all this now,
All it took was time to see how…
Possibilities arise
by opening one’s eyes,Imagination plus a day’s-worth of wrinkled brow!
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–Jonathan Caswell
*NOTE–Refer back to the post..ECONOMIC CHOICES IN MINIATURE…posted yesterday~!
The sight we fans did not want to see–
The orange and black/yellow scheme…
Has shown up in Worcester, Mass.,
This tide is coming in.
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Chocolate brown and red
Lettering in white…
Eventually will be swept away
But not yet overnight!
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Orange and black I do not hate–
It’s one of my favorite roads…
Born way out in New York State,
Hauling salt mine loads!
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–Jonathan Caswell
The nature of who I am,
So sorry to post and scram…
Wife want eating
Three meals completing,
I’l come back here if I can!
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This blogs my poetry,
Finding mine is the key…
SEARCH: “Caswell”–
Most are revealed,
Written heroically!
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As to the prompt–almost any–
Subject inspiring–many…
Three or four styles
Bring you smiles,
A Christian blog not like any?
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–Jonathan Caswell
His layout was headed West,
Now North-South orientation suggests…
An interchange done
In North Grafton,
But not if the cardboard resists!*
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Re-arranging the room,
For inspection lighted his gloom…
Found his hand drill
Punched through at will,
A fiddle yard north will do!++
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Pretending it’s North Grafton Yard,
The GRAFTON and UPTON rail yard…
Washington Mills**
Functioning still,
attracted this bard!
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Basically freelanced***
The layout’s influenced…
By several N.E roads
Rail carloads,
The ones that most make sense.
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-Jonathan Caswell
*See EXIT STAGE LEFT–NOT STAGE RIGHT!
**Washington Mills Abrasives Co. in North Grafton…at one time the sole remaining rail-served industry, beyond a team track!
***Freelanced is a model railroading term, meaning the modeler is taking elements from several railroads to model, without any one or two being dominant.
__++Fiddle yard is a track or tracks to fiddle–move on and off with hands–rail cars and locos being staged or removed from the main visible part of the model train layout.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: He’s not trying to grandstand—just admit to his guilt of certain motives and conduct and ask forgiveness of those he has wronged–whether or not they feel they were. It is a part of his Christian belief…being reconciled to God and the ones he has wronged asking forgiveness of both. There is a Bible basis to all this, which the author believes by faith to be the transcribed word of God to be followed and obeyed. Especially when he doesn’t! Questions/Comments are always welcome.
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Writer of poetry,
The “fashion” got away from me…
Chasing skirts
Many women hurts,
Of this I am guilty!
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Sought “readers” unsuccessfully,
The hidden motive–to see…
What interested
Where saints shouldn’t tread
And pester them endlessly!
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The many unreturned visits,
Prove out how wrong is it…
I know my sin
Repenting therein,
Stop this practice is the solution exquisite!
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I will stillreach out,
In subjects not ruled out…
Walk in the flesh
Heavily risks death,
Gotta pull some hot irons out!
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The upshot–some I’ll follow–
The rest–if they visit tomorrow…
I’ll respond graciously
But not the pest–not me–
I’ve sinned–I repent in sorrow!
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My actions toward those of whom I’ve spoken,
From now on–contact is broken…
This I must do
So they’ll feel safe too,
No need of me in their business poking.
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–Jonathan Caswell
The Poet’s gone searching again,
For winter scenery then…
GREEN MOUNTAIN’s Alcos—
He’d love to see those—
His favorite engine!
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ALCO RS-1’s in the cold,
Working with heart although old…
Giving class
To a road short of cash,
That railroad’s survival they’re owed!
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–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 