The Grain Elevator

The grain season is just starting to get under way as you can see by the line of hopper cars at the Grain Elevator.
This is the largest building found on my layout, and is first thing you see when you look at the far end of my layout.

As you can see we have friendly crews here at Canadisle Rail.

Here we have a couple of switchers waiting for their daily orders.

Here we see a few reefers awaiting their next assignment.
They will be used to ship locally grown produce, mostly potatoes to market.
As a kid I remember seeing long trains of mostly potato reefers pass by my house in the fall of the year.
These cars are Intermountain Kits that I built and are exactly like the originals.

There is not much happening around Shellville as a railfan seeks shelter from the hot afternoon sun.
These trees as well as others found on my layout were made by my friend and fellow model railroader Scott Jay.

Canadisle Rail transports all kinds of freight, including Tractors to be bought by the local farmers in the outskirts of Ashtown.

The Ashtown bound freight has taken the siding to allow for an Extra train to pass by on the main line.

Although we haven't had a lot of snow the past few years, the yard crew must always have the plow ready in time for winter just in case it decides to show up.
The SW-1200 located just to the left will be used to push the plow back into the engine shed at the end of the day.

What we have here is a GE 70 Tonner and a GE 44 Tonner.
Both are modelled after locomotives that once plied the rails here on Prince Edward Island.
These models once belonged to my good friend John MacGregor who passed away in May of 2000.

This is a track side photo of MacQuarrie's Feed which is located in Ashtown.
This is my latest attempt at scenery.
What does everybody think?

Storm clouds are brewing as west bound CN Extra 3631 passes by the yard lead.
The Caboose in the background is Sylvan resin kit, that I build some time ago. This was my first attempt at building a resin kit.

This particular locomotive is my favorite above all other locomotives that I own.
The reason being is that the real engine is on static display near my home.
This picture was taken at the entrance to my yard.

What we are looking at here is a small portion of the locomotive power that I own.
Pretty much all my locomotives are painted in Canadian National colours.
I prefer mostly Alco or MLW locomotives but I do have Gp-9's and some GE 70 Tonners.

Well since most of my layout is pretty much flat the rest of the gang thought it needed something different. So after some brainstorming we came up with the idea of making this creek.
My friend Scott Jay got inspired and put this scene together. The rail bridge is pretty much scratch built from styrene since we could not come up with a kit that would fit on a curve.
The only thing missing is the water and that will come eventually.

This is where all action starts at Canadisle Rail.
Here you see a crew member of the inbound Shellville train giving a friendly wave to the engineer of the out bound Ashtown train

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This is a picture of my grain elevator.