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More from Colorado

As I said in the last post, There were visits to several model railway exhibits. The first one was the Colorado Model Railroad Museum in Greeley Colorado. This Railroad has been featured in Model Railroader magazine as well as other publications. It is very well done and has walk ins between peninsulas as well as a balcony giving a good birds eye view of the whole scene from a long walkway.

overall view

Another view from the balcony. Model railroad is about 5,500 square ft.

view from above westside and Nasty Flats

And a view down on Coos Bay at the other end of the display.

Coos Bay loading

Home of the Colorado Model Railroad Museum

Colorado and visit to Intermountain Railway Co.

Visiting friends in Colorado, I was able to further my ongoing summer visits to full scale and model railroad sites. First was the Colorado Model Railroad Museum in Greeley CO, and then the Buenavista model railroad society in Buena Vista CO, both of which I will put up further posts in the near future, but the real unexpected treat was a tour of the

Intermountain Railway Co. the model railroad manufacturer in Longmont CO. Kirk was very gracious in showing the whole operation, from their milling the molds for injection molded parts on their CNC milling machines

CNC milling machine

Small detail parts half mold

Just a few of the many machined molds for various products

To explaining their process and inventory.

Small part of inventory

To talking about their quality control, including a final visual inspection of each and every HO engine and actually running each engine through various track situations. A very impressive commitment to quality, and not releasing anything that is not absolutely right.

Engines ready for inspection

engines in the inspection area

All in all an enjoyable morning and an appreciation of a quality company

In Town

Town areas to be completed and detailed in steps, and then show examples of lighting changes in different weather/time of day at that location. Final photos of this area soon.

middle of town with Woodland Scenics just plug lights being installed.

About to add Loksound decoder in Proto 2000 FB-2 and non Sound in FA2

Here is the FA2 and FB2 with their shells off.

Proto 200 FA2 and FB2

Will put up additional shots of the finished installation once completed. There is room in the B unit for a speaker where the cab appears in the A unit. They used the same chassis for both.

Adirondack short line Railroad

Visiting in Vermont and Adirondack area of New York and came across this beautifully painted 60 some year old ElectroMotive BL2.

Painted for the Saratoga and North Creek Railway in a scheme reminiscent of the D&H.

That’s the Hudson River behind the engine above

A Paul Strand Frog Angle

Went to see the work of the photographer Paul Strand at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the shows last day in Philadelphia today.

The show is massive, but I thought it interesting that the lead photo in the show is of train yards in New York, showing Frog angles (although there is no reference to that term).

NY Yards

Logging Area Continued

Ongoing building out the mountain in the logging area

Logging Mountain area

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Energy Drain

It’s been a long time since my last post.
Sorry, but we have been in the process of moving our studio, and all the rigamaroll and sweat that goes into that.
Closing is coming up so I’ll be back at the blog soon.