Atlantic and Southern RR - Throw Back Thursday

[ACL1504]

[PRR Modeler]

Really nice Tom. I really like the double diamonds and Butts Meats. Do you remember who makes the kit? I want to get rid of my Walthers meat packing plant.

[tct855]

Tom,
      I agree with Curt's comments and add that I just love your track plan overall.  You have some really interesting switch configurations which make for cool switching and traffic flows.  Good job sir.  Thanks for the consistent throwbacking. Thanx Thom...

[S&S RR]

Very interesting going back to you old layout.  You sure had a lot of track work.

[EricQuebec]

Very interesting going back to you old layout.  You sure had a lot of track work.

Ditto, what he said. Very impressive....
Eric

[vinceg]

Really nice Tom. I really like the double diamonds and Butts Meats. Do you remember who makes the kit? I want to get rid of my Walthers meat packing plant.

Curt, Butts Meats Co is actually an old Fine Scale Minatures kit called "Butcher's Way" - Jewel Series # 11. Tom has renamed it from the original "Wolcott Meat Co".

The kit is out of production but, coincidentally, there is one available on eBay here:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Butchers-Way-Fine-Scale-Miniatures-Jewel-Kit-11-HO-JA19CK15/202195010834?hash=item2f13c30512:g:R5gAAOSwbP1aYkno

(No, it's not mine....I have an unbuilt one but I intend to build it.)

For what it's worth, the original selling price was $280.00. The current eBay price is $180....very good. The auction ends today.

BTW, here's a pic of the standard kit:



Cheers,

Vince

[PRR Modeler]

Thank you Vince.

[ReadingBob]

Butcher's Way was a lot of fun to build.     Then again, I've never met a Fine Scales Miniature kit that wasn't a lot of fun to build.      

[ACL1504]

Really nice Tom. I really like the double diamonds and Butts Meats. Do you remember who makes the kit? I want to get rid of my Walthers meat packing plant.

Curt,

Thank you. I'm very late answering these posts, sorry. The FSM kits was mentioned below.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom,
      I agree with Curt's comments and add that I just love your track plan overall.  You have some really interesting switch configurations which make for cool switching and traffic flows.  Good job sir.  Thanks for the consistent throwbacking. Thanx Thom...

Thom,

Thank you and you are very welcome. Track work is very essential to having a layout that runs properly and efficiently. That was a cool track plan but all I could do was run trains with no ability to place the 200+ kits I have to build. Now, just 191 kits to build.


Tom

[ACL1504]

Very interesting going back to you old layout.  You sure had a lot of track work.

John,

Thank you, going down memory lane is fun. The track from this layout was used on the new layout storage level, the ovalix and all the second level.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Very interesting going back to you old layout.  You sure had a lot of track work.

Ditto, what he said. Very impressive....
Eric

Eric,

Thanks for following along and for the nice compliment.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Really nice Tom. I really like the double diamonds and Butts Meats. Do you remember who makes the kit? I want to get rid of my Walthers meat packing plant.

Curt, Butts Meats Co is actually an old Fine Scale Minatures kit called "Butcher's Way" - Jewel Series # 11. Tom has renamed it from the original "Wolcott Meat Co".



Cheers,

Vince

Vince,

Thanks for helping out and for following along, much appreciated.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Butcher's Way was a lot of fun to build.     Then again, I've never met a Fine Scales Miniature kit that wasn't a lot of fun to build.   

Bob,

You did a fantastic job on Butt's Meats. I can't wait to put it back on the layout.

Thank you!

Tom

[ACL1504]

Looking back over the old pictures, tells me that I wasn't satisfied with the old layout. I kept changing the track plan or moving the track here or there.

Notice, I haven't changed anything or track on the new A&S RR. Yes, there will be one or two whom will say, "Yes, but there is still time". 


Any hoo (sic), here is an area I think I changed three times.

This first set of pictures is of the lower south yard. This was long prior to going to DCC as I used DC analog PFM and PBL Fore Ground Sound.

This was in the late 1990's.






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