Last Gasp
Last year at this time I tore out my Port Kelsey layout and trucked most of it to the dump. I did keep a couple of pieces thinking I would try to use them somewhere. Yesterday I did a bit of a clean up in the garage and decided it was time to let it go as I don’t think I will ever find a use for it. So it went into the fire barrel….
This was the piece on the cover of the August 1997 Model Railroader.
It sure burned in a hurry….
🙁
-Tim
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I'm your host, Tim Warris, a product developer in Port Dover, Ontario. Since March of 2007 I have been documenting the construction of the former CNJ Bronx Terminal in HO scale. For my day job, I design track building tools for Fast Tracks, a small company I own and operate. Fast Tracks makes it fast and easy to hand lay your own trackwork. Stop by our website to learn more!
Posted by: Tim | 11-05-2007 | 09:11 AM
Posted in: HDR Images | Picture of the Day
Tim,
A little late now, but did you consider donation to the Howell Day Museum along with the copy of the August 1997 MR? Local libraries, youth centers, and a host of other opportunities can also be thought of and advance the exposure of model railroading to the public (and maybe expand participation).
Your CNJ Brooklyn terminal (in both scales) will certainly become a ‘classic’. Hope we don’t see it burning in a barrel in later years!
-ed mccamey-
COSLAR RR
Hi Ed,
The piece sticking out of the fire barrel was beyond use as removing it from the layout pretty much destroyed it. I thought I might try to make it into a bit of a diorama but it is becoming clear I won’t have time to work on it in the foreseeable future, so I decided to let it go.
Once completed, the Bronx Terminal layout will likely be sold or donated to a museum, I can’t imagine it ever sticking out of a burn barrel, of course, I would have never thought I would have the Port Kelsey in one either….
Tim