Virginia Blue Ridge & Southern: June 2012

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Scenery Session Interrupted by Train

Here I am adding scenery to the Kemper Street Station scene and a pesky northbound passenger train shows up. Now what can I do? Ah Ha, what any rail fan would do, pull out my camera.

I was in the park on the left side of Kemper Street Station and grabbed this shot as the train came out of Park Avenue Tunnel.

A buddy was on a ladder cleaning gutters on the station and grabbed this one.

The train actually stopped briefly, allowing me time to run down to the platform and grab this one. I kept running down to the north end of the platform,

and used the zoom on this one.

I finally got this one as the E6 stopped for passenger boarding.

The Layout:

The VBR&S is designed to look and operate as the Southern Railway did between Lynchburg and Charlottesville in 1956. Included is the short line connection with the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway at Tye River. The Southern portion runs from Kemper Street Station in Lynchburg to Main Street Station in Charlottesville. Hidden reverse loop holding tracks on each end simulate the world beyond, plus there are holding tracks for N&W and C&O interchange in Lynchburg, and C&O interchange in Charlottesville. In addition industrial areas are included for both Lynchburg and Charlottesville. Monroe Yard is the main exchange point for freights, although 2nd class freights will also exchange cars in Charlottesville. Some passenger trains must change locomotives in Monroe. The VBR is operated as a separate railroad, leaving Tye River and dropping via a helix to the railroad's lower level. It reappears at Piney River where it serves two major industries. All sidings and industries on the layout actually existed. The VBR&S operates on a Train Order/Timetable system, in reality mostly timetable, as all trains are covered in the timetable except the local way freights which must get out of everyone else's way. We use a variable fast clock, which may be set between 4 and 5 to 1. It is visible from most spots on the railroad. All trains operate as they did in 1956, and all trains that ran on the real railroad are included. We use a Car Card Waybill system from Ship It, which works exactly like the Old Line Graphics system used by most of the major model railroads. Control is by a Digitrax Chief system.

Virginia Blue Ridge & Southern

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Scenery Session Interrupted by Train

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