I live in the Baldwinsville area. I’m familiar with the finger lakes trackage that goes by the NYS Fairgrounds, through Solvay, Camillus, Elbridge and points west.
Wow man I really like how your model the prototype. Your scenery work is really good. Love how your blending it into the backdrop. Looks really good. You got me hooked. Can't wait to watch the progress. KUTGW
I see your layout is listed on the Lakeshore Division ops weekend coming up. If I have the weekend free I’ll be sure to put you on my tour request list.
that was a nice tour. the one bridge that goes over the river, I have seen from underneath, bit of a boat tour down threw the locks. and a few other things that you are modeling,
Just discovered your channel and subscribed. Excellent layout tour and an impressive model railroad. You are obviously very familiar with the prototype operations and have done well researching and understanding the various industries. I look forward to watching the progress of your layout. Well done! Mike
The WSOR boxes are loaded in the next town over to me IRL at Seneca Foods in Payette, Idaho. We see these cars a few times a week at the shortline I work for. I have seen (and have photos) of these exact same cars (WSOR 503196 and WSOR 503194) along with several other WSOR boxes. (6:49)
If you need any block detectors, I have a batch of them made and ready to go. Excellent for crossing signals, wayside signals or any other autonomous function of a model layout. Meanwhile one of MY favorite scenes to see on a layout as diverse as yours is the abandoned spur. So many of the lines I have worked on over the span of my 21 year career has had at least one track pulled out. The building may still remain and there are definitely remnants of the track or even the switch. But for all intents and purposes, the track is out of service and the engineering department has done their best to ensure no one tries to roll a car back into the track somehow. I think if I ever get to modelling a layout myself, I would do an entire branch that has been abandoned, complete with the bike trail and the unending piles of bad timber. Maybe an occasional patched crossing or creek bed bridge. But some of the details that really pleases me are to see turnouts that have been modified, or whole lengths of track that are missing the rails. Or perhaps the customer demanded that their rails remain after the railroad removed their connection, so between the customer's fence and the branch line is a section of rail-less tracks. Ties all disheveled among the ballast and vegetation. The points and frog of the switch are missing, replaced with a solid stretch of rail. But the majority of the ties are still in place for the turnout. These are details that certainly express that feature of modern railroading. Kind of like when you weather your cars and add some graffiti to it. A sign of the times for a modern railroad is the amount of graffiti. I saw some of your cars had the street art added to them. Before I retired, we had 68,000 cars come through our yard annually. Only the newest cars were without street art and they were usually begging for someone to sneak in and tag them. About 25% of the traffic in our yard were giant refrigerators so a brand new one was nothing more than a 72-foot canvas for street art. And quite often, they did some really amusing art too. Yeah, there was the poor depiction of a phallus, or some obscene lettering... But then there were cartoon characters and other artwork that was just impressive. And the colors really brightened up the otherwise dull yard. Black tanks, white refrigerators, brown boxes and gray hoppers. BORING! My only peeve to the street art is when they covered up the reporting marks because now the car was defective and could no longer interchange. I think most of the street artists were aware of this rule because they usually did an excellent job of avoiding the reporting marks. However there was one artist that would put the reporting marks back in his or her own font and sometimes incorporate it into the artwork. I'm telling you, these artists were extremely talented! One time I encountered a crew of them. It was two men and a woman, and a cart full of paints. I am pretty sure they thought I was going to arrest them or have them arrested but they were not savvy to the terrain so I quickly caught up to them. I got them to stop and talk to me for a few moments, once I explained that they were not in any trouble with me. I also told them to come back on a Saturday morning when no one was there and Bring a ladder next time so they could do the whole car! The only thing they were concerned about now was finishing what they started but my engineer was also telling me that he was ready to drag them into the yard so we could start classifying them. Yep, sorry, I gotta get to work.
@ShawnCalay-hi6gy yeah actually many of them have pretty good jobs, the ones that do art, not just tagging or obscene junk. If they are artistically inclined, I'd bet they also have a job doing some kind of artwork elsewhere.
Thanks for subbing! Glad to have you! The photo backdrops are all drone photos of the prototype that I've taken myself and stitched together in Photoshop.
@@brian102256 just at the local Walgreens. You can order them online and a lot of times they even have a 50% off coupon so they only cost like 15-20 bucks for a 2ftx8ft banner!
Nice! Do you already have the info for one? I know there's one out there but I'm from the other side of Rochester so unfortunately I don't have much information.
