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Yes, it’s a model - 2
3: Thoroughfare Gap Railroad #27 crosses over Short Ravine
bridge on Luke Blackbeard's HO scale freelance railroad, lo-
cated in New Zealand.
Luke says, “Set around the turn of the century, I scratchbuilt the
bridge from balsa and stained it with acrylic craft paints. It was
inspired by the Central Pacific Railroad's original wooden bridge
over Long Ravine near Colfax, California. My version is much short-
er and is curved.
“The bridge was covered to protect it from the elements but I
wanted to show off the underlying structure so I decided to make
a scene showing it being closed in. The two workers on the bridge
are fromMusket Miniatures and the locomotive is a Bachmann
Spectrum 10-wheeler (still awaiting decals for the tender and a
little weathering). I built the canyon walls using plaster castings
from either Woodland Scenics or home made tin foil molds.”
4: Train 912 with CN SD70M-2 #8005, SD40-2W #5249, ES-
44DC #2236 and ONT #1737, take Nairn, Ontario by storm.
Ted Koclya took this photo of train 912 passing the Nairn west sid-
ing switch on the Waterloo Region Model Railway Club layout.
Here, CP train 912 (Chicago - Sault Ste. Marie - Montreal) has
been taken over by modern CN power owned by a club member
modelling part of the CN line between North Bay and Toronto.
The freights on this line typically run with mixed CN and Ontario
Northland power.
All four units are sound-equipped, and provided a spectacle of
both sight and sound through this sleepy northern Ontario village.
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