Bernie's Pics From Session #16
Bernie sent along a good number of photos for our enjoyment.
These were taken during our Standard Gauge train operations occurring on September 19th.
We had a 'skeleton crew' but the folks managed to keep the trains rolling across the Ontario landscape.
There were many other train activities taking place in the region.
Many of these involved a number of our regular crew members.
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The sun would soon heat us up for a very nice day of running garden trains.
The trays keep on coming.
Bill will soon arrive and start the process of placing the rolling stock to their assigned track locations.
Bernie was busy setting out cars at Bell and Glen Hammond.
Besides the paper work, one can see the green blower off to the left.
It is very much required pre-ops to clear the sidings at Stuart Yard from tree leaves and other natural debris.
Phil is standing in the early morning shadows at Spruce.
He is assigned to Train 304 on this day.
Long sleeves were still needed until the sun started to warm things up.
He is working westbound Train 303 having departed Glen Hammond earlier in the morning.
His final destination will be Firgrove.
SOO rules this day! 👍👌👍
Doug is seen in the tower controlling traffic.
Seanna found time from NY duties to lend a hand
to Gerry.
They have reached Watkins Siding with 302 and will, no doubt, have a facing move to conduct at Wellington Lake.
To the left we spot 301 off in Ironwood at the moment.
Meanwhile, Steve found time from his NY duties
to lend a hand to Moe.
Doug tells me that Steve acted as the Ironwood Switcher on this day.
Bill - wondering where his Nelson Yard assistants went!
Neil - studying his switching orders at Glen Hammond.
Likewise, Pat studies his switch list for Stuart
Yard.
George was found organizing his rolling stock trays at Firgrove.
Bob and Bill are looking at coupler problems with the ore train as Ted looks on.
Doug in the dispatch tower keeps the railways operating smoothly.
Seanna and Gerry are spotted once again working 312 at Wellington Lake.
Moe is sharing the narrow aisle as he conducts business at Ironwood.
Bob is departing Nelson Yard with his beautiful locomotive in charge.
A bad ordered ore car has been removed from the train and
will make its way to Fred for repair.
Gerry has arrived at Peter’s Pond with 302 while Andrew departs after working Cedar Rock.
Is Gerry scowling at the Paparazzi? ❤👀❤
Andrew retrieves a balky box car that derailed several times under Mount St Helens.
The track was clear and the car finally made its way through to Bell.
Gerry is playing with choke cables as Seanna handles the RS3 at Peter’s Pond.
Bob backs the ore train loads onto the Northland ore dock.
Bob’s shiny new CP GP38 handles the loaded ore
train with ease.
A busy “Y” at Northland.
Bernie’s TH&B GP7 has set out two Northland cars for pick up by 323.
Phil’s CP GP9 waits to complete the “Y” as Bob’s ore train prepares to depart with a train of empties.
A different angle showing the busy “Y”.
Gerry brings train 312 into Craig Leigh behind the IPP&W RS3.
He will set out a boxcar into the Northland Interchange before proceeding to Douglas Yard.
Bernie has pulled a boxcar out of Northland that will be picked up by 321 as it departs Craig Leigh.
Andrew switches 324 at Spruce in the warm sunlight.
Bill is known for wearing railroad and aviation themed t-shirts.
This day he shows off a ‘T’ from the National Warplane Museum titled: Wings of Eagles.
It depicts a USAAF B-17 being escorted by two P-38
Lightnings.
Not to be outdone by Bill, Seanna shows off a colourful BNSF t-shirt.
We see Pat switching train 72 at Rat Portage.
George - awaiting the final train 323 into Fir Grove.
Seanna and Phil are all smiles as Fred listens in.
Dara O-Higgin, a friend of Fred's, dropped in to test a locomotive he was working on.
Andrew is in the background finishing up switching 324 at Ironwood and will
terminate at Douglas Yard.
Andrew's SOO Line #370 locomotive represents an Alco RS-2 diesel locomotive.
The pair certainly looks cool running together!
We watch a video of Bob working the ore train at the wye.
Speaking of Bill's T-shirt adorned with airplanes, Mark couldn't make the session at the last moment as his lovely daughter learned that she was selected to volunteer at the air show across the river in Gatineau, Quebec with her cadets squadron.
Mark tells us that she was very enthralled.
In her words, “It would be my dream to fly one of these jets!"
Mark was then able to make it out to run trains at George's on the Sunday instead.
Here we see him in a 'selfie' with his beautiful Ontario Northland diesel locomotive.
Here is the story in Mark's own words:
To watch a video Mark took of his locomotive pulling a train simply copy and paste the link below into your computer's browser to gain access to the film.
https://www.icloud.com/photos/#/icloudlinks/02fqNFiJx68LBQbcKXAmrwyZw/
The clinic was titled, "Dancing With Dioramas" and in the image above I shared how I built the resin station for my friend, Chris Lyon.
But before delivering it to him and 'planting' it on his home layout I chose to create a diorama for the depot so that I could bring it out to the NMRA meet and our OVAR train dinner meeting.
I'd rather showcase the structure on a diorama than having it stand alone on the display table.
Then, I dropped in on Chris at 10:00 AM one morning and by 4:00 PM the scene on his layout 'morphed' from what you see in Image 3 to what is found in Image 4.
I had also brought along a number of trees I had made from the flower of the 'False Spirea" plant to plant in the background.
Chris & I enjoyed the camaraderie found when modelers gather to work together on a scene.
His backdrops are hand painted and are simply gorgeous!
In our dear friend, the late Bill Meek's case, we see the wonderful 'hybrid' bridge he created making up one scene...with some critical diorama elements such as a water feature, a change in elevation, a backdrop and a train illustrating movement.
This follows into the farm scene with the Alder Models barn...with the suitable farm details along with the lovely painted backdrop.
The barn scene turns into the farmhouse depiction where Bill had constructed two plaster kits of farmhouses and joined them together to form a single large home for the farmer and his family...with the lovely wagon and the cattle alongside the tractor creating a realistic story.
Passing beyond the farmhouse is the old highway 17 that ran from Ottawa to Montreal...now the 174.
Bill has used creative license to have the upper train running into Hawksbury with the lower train arriving Glen Robertson...with the two locations being approximately 35 kms apart (roughly 21 miles).
Image 4 showcases the ball diamond that hugs the tracks in Glen Robertson, a ball diamond that actually exists in this location.
That sentiment came courtesy of Seanna! 😎👀😎
Next week's session is already filling up with at least 20 names so there'll be no skeletons in the closet then!
We are the OVGRS of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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