Sorting Out The Yard

Well in order to have an efficient railway we need a skilled yard crew.
That is where Scott enters the picture.
We keep him busy sorting out the incoming and outgoing trains and he only screws up occasionally!

Ken's Turn

Well we had more crew than jobs so Ken sat out the first session but was called upon to operate the Shellville local.
So here we see Ken MacQuarrie hard at work arranging cars for pickup.

The Fine Art Of Uncoupling

Well Tom put Mark right to work sorting out cars destined for the Ashtown freight to pick up. I believe Mark has mastered the high tech uncoupling tool.

Train Night In The Valley

Well I have posted many pictures of my layout over the past couple of years I figured it was time to post a few pictures of the people who operate the Canadisle Rail.
We usually get together every second Sunday evening to run a couple of sessions.
This past week we had a rather large turnout with most of our regular crew plus a few visitors.
This allowed me to take the night off to shoot some pictures which I will share with you now.
In the right hand side of the picture above we have Scott Jay of Bayside & Tidewater Railway operating the yard.
To Scott's left we have Ewen Moase running the Ashtown Freight.
Next to Ewen we have Mark Wall who is checking out the hobby. He is helping Tom Gaudet work the Shellville Local. One the other side of the room we have Greg MacQuarrie running the Ashtown Local and Ed Cook who is visiting from Ontario running the Shellville Freight.

FOLKS WE'VE GOT PASSENGERS!

Well Canadisle rail is mainly a freight railway occasionally we do see the odd passenger special.
As reported in an earlier post I purchased some nice Canadian National F Units for my railway. The have seen lots of action hauling freights around the layout but I figured they would be more at home moving some passengers around my layout.
So I coupled them to my recently purchased CN Rapido passenger cars and a couple of other cars that sat in my display case for several years.
Although the Kensington Train Station never saw any F-Units or Passenger Cars as fancy as these cars they do look quite nice parked in front of my Kensington train Station.

Times They Are A Changin

Well the railway finally has one of those fancy new steel vans.
I believe the crews are really going to like all the modern conveniences.
No more smelly kerosene lanterns for these guys.

Slab Sides

Something unique to Canadian Railways and something that I saw frequently passing by my home in the Spring of the year were Slab Sided Hopper Cars of both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific.
When I heard Trueline trains were coming out with these cars I had to get a few.
I think they fit right in on my layout.

New Motive Power

I have been patiently awaiting the arrival of Intermountain's FP-9's in CN's Stripes Scheme. I have always liked the look of these locomotives in photographes and decided I had to have a few. They run quite nicely and sound good as well.
One other thing I like about this type of locomotive is that a few members of our little group do not like F units so this will drive them around the bend so to speak!

More Changes To My Train room

As I mentioned earlier I decided to spruce up my layout room for the open house that was held following the annual MFMR convention.
With some help from my fellow Half Nutter Scott Jay we installed new fascia on my layout and also hung some new curtains. I finished off some of the areas that were lacking scenery as well.
Here are the results of my work.

Long Overdue Post

Well after many suggestions that I should update my blog site I have finally found the time to sit in front of the computer and do just that.
Well it has been six months since I last updated anything but life keeps interfering with my spare time.
As many of you folks already know our Half Nuts Model Railroaders recently hosted the annual convention of the Maritime Federation Of Model Railroaders. This took up some of my time getting ready for an open house which usually follows one of these shows.
I had to spruce up my train room for my visitors.
One of the changes I made was swapping out the station that sat over on the Ashtown side of my layout.
I replaced the station with a replica of the Kensington Train Station and the Freight Shed that sat beside it for many years.
These replicas used to reside in the Kensington Railway Museum but unfortunately a pub has set up shop in the station and the museum had to go.
So I found these replicas a new home on my layout.
What do you think?