Seems like a neat concept for a small detailed switching layout....
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Neat video, thanks !!
Clem k
That's quite a hole! You're right - this sparks all kinds of micro-layout ideas.
Great vid, thanks for posting!
Plain bearing truck GE, footboards... what a neat throwback.
No 3-step or rules against getting off of moving equipment in those pictures though.
The whole thing looks scary to me.
Originally Posted by Gregg:
The whole thing looks scary to me.
I cringed when I saw them shoving those flats toward a cliff and either side was a sheer drop and that lifting up granite with a front end loader...looked a little iffy. But...I had this daydream about 2-rail O and a Whitcomb or other small diesel with side rods, some scratch built flats...If I have to downsize in the future..it a temptation to switch gears...
Seems like, years ago, Model Railroader mag had articles on modeling Vermont granite
quarries. I visited a Vermont quarry years ago but only in a drive-by, and remember little about it. I have twice been to the site of Marble, Colorado, which has marble quarries up a side canyon high on cliffs in the side of a mountain. These were once served by the Crystal River RR, now abandoned, once threatened to be rebuilt to serve coal mines, but that didn't happen. There are, of course 
, one or more books on this railroad. These marble quarries were again opened and served by trucks when I was last there. The large marble mills there are gone, and the town of Marble now looks like mostly just vacation homes. I would be surprised if there are no books on New
England quarry railroads.
electroliner i for one would welcome you to the ranks of 2 railers, but why wait till you downsize a small switching layout can fit almost anywhere.
Originally Posted by colorado hirailer:
Seems like, years ago, Model Railroader mag had articles on modeling Vermont granite
quarries. I visited a Vermont quarry years ago but only in a drive-by, and remember little about it. I have twice been to the site of Marble, Colorado, which has marble quarries up a side canyon high on cliffs in the side of a mountain. These were once served by the Crystal River RR, now abandoned, once threatened to be rebuilt to serve coal mines, but that didn't happen. There are, of course , one or more books on this railroad. These marble quarries were again opened and served by trucks when I was last there. The large marble mills there are gone, and the town of Marble now looks like mostly just vacation homes. I would be surprised if there are no books on New
England quarry railroads.
Your comment brought to mind another road whose name says it all...This road was in Vermont...oddly enough the quarry supported the tombstone business.
Originally Posted by Rule292:
Great vid, thanks for posting!
Plain bearing truck GE, footboards... what a neat throwback.
No 3-step or rules against getting off of moving equipment in those pictures though.
Switching with no air and blocks of wood for handbrakes. It ain't Mayberry but would a great place to make those silly vampire movies. Is there nothing good on TV anymore?
Originally Posted by 69nickeycamaro:
electroliner i for one would welcome you to the ranks of 2 railers, but why wait till you downsize a small switching layout can fit almost anywhere.
Its all the hoard I have to sell off that stops me in my tracks...the more I see of 2 rail O the better it looks and as far as tinplate and new stuff is concerned...been there done that...We will downsize in about a year from now...I might splurge on the new little Bachmann switcher if it comes in 2 rail as an impetus to do something with it. Modeling the quarry would add a lot of visual 'drama"...
Yes, it's time for that micro-layout! My biggest was 2 x 9, 2-rail O scale. 0-4-0 saddle tanker on a Rivarossi motor truck pushing 4-wheelers around.
Or maybe go bigger with the Marblehead, OH limestone quarries?
Shays, side-dumpers, switchers and interurbans under wire:
http://www.geocities.ws/marble...uarry/quarry1920.jpg
I think RMC mag did an article back in the 80s or 90s.
Electroliner - a little food for your downsizing thought:
Originally Posted by Firewood:
Electroliner - a little food for your downsizing thought:
wow..thanks. I was thinking quarry to mill to interchange and reverse with maybe a hidden runaround track. Those plans are really food for thought. One aspect of the video that was fleeting was the old caboose used as a yard office with a big picture window inserted and florescent lighting with the paint peeling off it...would make a great model for the layout.
firewood thanks for posting that surely ends the argument that i don't have room for o scale.
electroliner as i said earlier these small layouts can fit almost anywhere. food for thought look at Joey Ricard has done with a small layout. and don't let the 3 rail stuff stand in your way as have sold a bunch of my 3 rail stuff to fund my 2 rail adventure and trust me i don't regret it at all.
Wow...that's an interesting operation. It would be fun to model.
The late Mr. Arendt was indeed a lighting rod for the micro-layout movement, and the website / database is now being administered by a Dutch group. Lots of ideas including a 3-rail switching layout in 1 x 4 ft with a sector table. Yes, 12" x 48".
http://www.carendt.com/small-l...e-77-september-2008/
Another for 3-rail and Flyer S:
http://www.carendt.com/small-l...ge-45a-january-2006/
Electroliner, also found this On30 sound-equipped micro just for you 
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Originally Posted by Firewood:
The late Mr. Arendt was indeed a lighting rod for the micro-layout movement, and the website / database is now being administered by a Dutch group. Lots of ideas including a 3-rail switching layout in 1 x 4 ft with a sector table. Yes, 12" x 48".
http://www.carendt.com/small-l...e-77-september-2008/
Another for 3-rail and Flyer S:
http://www.carendt.com/small-l...ge-45a-january-2006/
Electroliner, also found this On30 sound-equipped micro just for you :
Wow!
