Tom - I don't know this new book you mention. I just posted a photo taken in
June '62
from what sounds like the same location. It's pretty crude (sorry about that:
14-year-old
kid with an argus c3, oh well...), but maybe there's some useful information to
be gleaned
regarding track layout. Happy modeling,
Jonathan
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Tom Mack" <thommack@...> wrote:
>
> I just saw the new BN trackside book entitled "The Urge to Merge". It
> is actually not BN, but all the BN predecessor roads. So there is a
> big section on the Q.
>
> In it is a photo I have not seen before of Oregon. It looks like it
> was shot from the overpass, looking toward the Rock River bridge. It
> was shot by Jim Boyd and shows the combined EB/NCL leaving Oregon
> heading for Chicago. I think the photo was shot in 1966. It is a great
> shot of that I have not seen before of the track layout at Oregon .
> Since I am modeling Oregon (in progress), and want to make sure I do
> it well, I was wondering if anyone knows of any other place I could
> find this photo beside the book? It really gives a new perspective to
> the track layout. I plan on buying the book, but had already spent too
> much at the train show where I saw it!
>
> Tom Mack
> Cincinnati, OH
>
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