Prototype Double Slipover

Union Station, Toronto

This scene will be familiar to anyone who has walked from Front St. to the CN Tower in Toronto. Below the walkway is the throat to Union Station and it is filled with double slip switches. Here is a great example of a prototype “Double Slipover“, a crossover with slip switches instead of turnouts.

-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 | 09-03-2007 | 08:09 AM
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Steamer sillouette

Taken by my brother Scott last weekend when we fired up my grandfathers tobacco steamer.

-Tim

About the Author:

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 | 08-30-2007 | 05:08 PM
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Lighting the steamer

Kelsey Steamer

We had a family gathering on the weekend and the time felt right to light a fire in the long cold firebox of my grandfathers steamer.

A black and white image seems appropriate here as any image I have ever seen of my grandfather with one of these boilers was in black and white…

About the Author:

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 | 08-27-2007 | 09:08 AM
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