A Short Train

It gets a little challenging sometimes to come up with different views or things to post on the blog.  The layout really isn't all that big, and viewing angles get a bit limited. Anyway, I thought we'd try to follow a short (2 cars) train part way around the JSSX.

Here's JSSX 815, a GP38 of course, setting out from the shortline's yard with a couple of high-cube boxcars in tow.  The track at the right-hand corner of the photo is the interchange from the GTW yard (it's only 3 tracks wide) to the JSSX yard (also 3 tracks).

That track drops just 1/4" from the GTW down to the JSSX yard over a distance of maybe 16" or so.  In other words, it drops from the the thickness of cork roadbed under the GTW to the table top level of the JSSX yard. When I made this, I just let a piece of flex track fall naturally from the cork to see where it landed, and then put that switch we see on the right at that spot.

Moving along, here comes 815 around the far side of the 180 curve after leaving the yard.  

That Schneider trailer on the left is the one I showed here a few weeks back after I had bought it the train show in Woodstock.  The trailer is weathered now, but maybe I went a bit too heavy with the exhaust soot at the corners.

A view taken from beneath the roadway overpass.  I think I'll start referring to that as the Route 25 overpass, because why not, and plus I haven't thought of anything else to call it.

And just after coming out from under the Route 25 overpass

Passing by some heavy equipment riding on a lowboy trailer.

And changing from 1:87 to 1:1 scale, here's an aerial view I ran across of Delray Tower in Detroit from 2023

I found the image on Facebook this week, shows CSX train Y194 on it's way to Zug Island according to photographer Craig Hensley.

That'll be it for now.  Enjoy your week.