Monday - November 8, 2021

[bparrish]

Tom......

What a great photo.     Looking across the river there is a freight house marked Burlington Route.  The give away is that it says Denver and California.   What I can remember is that the Burlington was on the north (west) side of the river at that point and turned north into the passenger yards.

There were a lot of railroads on the east side that went towards Indiana.   The IC had a yard down there somewhere.  They went into the Dearborn St station.  The Q on the west side of the river went into Union along Canal Street.   The Q offices were at Quincey and Jackson Streets at 547 west Jackson.

Thanx
Bob

[cuse]

Great pics today fellas!


John S, regarding layout tours...I absolutely plan to be in Washington state next September for the Narrow Gauge convention...I've enjoyed meeting quite a few Forum members at previous NNGC's (and Expos)...anybody else have it penciled in?


John

[bparrish]

John.............

I'm planning to be there.  There is a large contingency of Sn3 people in the Seattle area and Russell Segner is one of them..  There are about nine Sn3 railroads that are done and operating. regularly.

I first met Russell in 2013 when I was living there during the stem cell transplant.   In the first click location there are some photos. Russell is the guy in the dark maroon shirt.  I only know a few of the others.

I did some minor work on re-gauging his turnouts as he has some REALLY light skeleton log buggies that would not back through the turnouts to get to his mill pond.

He is a good friend.

He and I work regularly on NMRA stuff in the northwest.  My position as vice president of the region has me in close contact with him as he is the division superintendent of the Seattle area.

There is a lot of cool modeling going on in the northwest.

see ya
Bob


https://www.nasg.org/Layouts/Sn3/indexSegnerRussYMorton_Branch_and_Coal_Creek_Lumber_Co_.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgGNYi5jwYo

[S&S RR]

Great pics today fellas!


John S, regarding layout tours...I absolutely plan to be in Washington state next September for the Narrow Gauge convention...I've enjoyed meeting quite a few Forum members at previous NNGC's (and Expos)...anybody else have it penciled in?


John

The NNGC for 2022 is penciled in for me too.  I talked to Jaime last week and he is also penciled in. I hope travel is back to normal by then.

[S&S RR]

John.............

I'm planning to be there.  There is a large contingency of Sn3 people in the Seattle area and Russell Segner is one of them..  There are about nine Sn3 railroads that are done and operating. regularly.

I first met Russell in 2013 when I was living there during the stem cell transplant.   In the first click location there are some photos. Russell is the guy in the dark maroon shirt.  I only know a few of the others.

I did some minor work on re-gauging his turnouts as he has some REALLY light skeleton log buggies that would not back through the turnouts to get to his mill pond.

He is a good friend.

He and I work regularly on NMRA stuff in the northwest.  My position as vice president of the region has me in close contact with him as he is the division superintendent of the Seattle area.

There is a lot of cool modeling going on in the northwest.

see ya
Bob


https://www.nasg.org/Layouts/Sn3/indexSegnerRussYMorton_Branch_and_Coal_Creek_Lumber_Co_.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgGNYi5jwYo

Bob


I have seen to Russel's layout a couple times over the years - very nice.  It looks like he has been busy the last few years. I can't wait to see it again. It would be great to finally get a chance to meet you, too.

[bparrish]

John....

He had the coolest "A" type turn around at the top of his stairs.  He made a MAJOR change and extended that out into the middle of the room where a sofa was located.  I think the first location I sent to you shows this change.  It changes the whole dynamic of the room and operations.   He built the bulk of the railroad in 2012 for the NNG in Seattle.   I did not meet Russell until a year later.  I think he made the extension in 2017 or 18.

I've not seen it in its new form.  Only zoom presentations.

see ya
Bob

[S&S RR]

John....

He had the coolest "A" type turn around at the top of his stairs.  He made a MAJOR change and extended that out into the middle of the room where a sofa was located.  I think the first location I sent to you shows this change.  It changes the whole dynamic of the room and operations.   He built the bulk of the railroad in 2012 for the NNG in Seattle.   I did not meet Russell until a year later.  I think he made the extension in 2017 or 18.

I've not seen it in its new form.  Only zoom presentations.

see ya
Bob

I hope we can go see it together in 2022!

[postalkarl]

Hey Everyone:

Just love all you building and scenery around them.

Karl