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I invite you to see what the WRY used to be
… The Waterside Railway The HO Scale Waterside Railway was being constructed in an air-conditioned room at the rear of my garage between 2002 and 2007. The layout consisted of the main line with several hundred feet of track, and numerous turnouts, spurs, sidings, and yards. The railroad used Digital Command Control with wireless throttles from CVP Products/EasyDCC. Waybills and switchlists were generated by computer using RailOp software. The railroad had about 80 freight cars, three passenger cars, seven diesel
locomotives, and three steam locomotives. Trains operated from the six-track
main freight yard in the town of There were three "interchange" tracks and a two-track "staging" area. Color light signals were being installed at several locations along the right-of-way. Running the model railroad through a typical "day" in prototype fashion, with setting out and picking up freight cars at the various industries in the towns as dictated by the waybills, kept three or four serious "operators" busy for several hours. The railroad could also be run in a round-and-round mode to just show it off to non-model railroad visitors. The three-turn "helix" was constructed in the un-air-conditioned
garage adjacent to the railroad room. (A helix is a stacked spiral of track
that allows trains to ascend or descend vertical heights within a minimal
space.) My helix was not meant to be part of the "visible"
railroad, and enabled me to build a complete "second level" within
the railroad room about 12"-14" above the original layout. |
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The sad end of the
Waterside Railway …
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… January 2008
Updated 5/5/09 |
