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/
Going Canadian,
The collector bought another engine…
From RAPIDO TRAINS
It only remains
Just when his bank’s charge comes forth!
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AfteR that special exhaust
Piping C.N. switchers have across…
their system-wide
Practice he spied,
If the model could be bought for minimal cost!
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Without signing up for EBAY,
He found the right price to pay…
EBAY will arrange
Canadian currency exchange,
And he’ll receive it in the mail, someday!
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Jonathan Caswell
Photo of the N scale GMD-1 model courtesy RAPIDO TRAINS, found on Google images. His is an older release.
He hopes he’s not ingenuous,
His time each evening tenuous…
has been uploading
Bicentennial railroading,
found some Header Images stupendous!
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Honoring July fourth,
By patriotic train cars of course…!
His N scale uses
Bicentennial cabooses,
To which the “seal” says, “ORT-ORT!”
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Fancy red-white-and-blue,
Appears on bikinis too…
But this year
Railcars are dear,
So them you have to view!
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–Jonathan Caswell
BELOW: a sampling of the GOOGLE IMAGES I found!
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 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.
Looking at his Comments Column,
A lot of people “call” him…
Lots of LIKES–
Stands to rights–
They like many posts within!
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Others receive more Comments,
But his output is immense…
What–a dozen–
And he’s still buzzing,
To do so wouldn’t make sense!
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Sometimes particular posts,
Of course his own the most…
may receive
A comment brief,
And that more than most!
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But each has their own
Time limits to be “on”…
Grateful he is
For LIKES that whiz,
Stacking up here to beyond!
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–Jonathan Caswell
Went to my fave magazine,
Website for the video stream…
What they labeled “FREE”
Was just introductory
To the pay-to-view portions–that’s mean!
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–Jonathan Caswell
He’s borrowed a WIFI hot spot,
More bucks than he has, like as not…
grateful to Steve
For the reality reprieve,
He’ll give it his very best shot!
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-Not having poems prepared,
He’s rather up in the air…
right off the cuff
May not be enough,
But folks seem to like these so aired!
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–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 