Re: [CBQ] Model Railroader Magazine track plan

["John Sloan sloanfamily123@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Doug,  Thanks very much.  That confirmed what I thought.  I was hoping that MR had gotten it accurate but as you said compromises had to be made.  Thanks again John

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:17 AM, 'Douglas Harding' doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Well there was a yard, see attached photo. A google map search for Red Oak Ia will get you a good look at the layout. The Q is double tracked, and there is a bridge over the tracks/yard. But I think MR made a lot of compromises, especially when it came to structures. Perhaps because there were working in NScale. They used a Santa Fe style depot.  The Q had a distinctive brick depot https://www.flickr.com/photos/thebouncingczech/6998537227/ which sits on a broad curve on the south side of town. The stockpen does not look anything like a Q design, and you certainly would not have 4 chutes on such a small stockpen layout. And some of the grain elevators don’t look like anything I have seen in Iowa, and I’ve lived in Iowa all my life.

 

Doug Harding

www.iowacentralrr.org

 

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