North Coast Railroad

[Pennman]

Rich. The RIT train show is the weekend of December 13-14. I plan on being there.
It would be great to see you again.

Dave.

Dave, that certainly would be great! Just hope the weather is safe for driving though.
I would undoubtedly believe that Bernd would be there as well. I will plan on it.

Rich

[Bernd]

Rich. The RIT train show is the weekend of December 13-14. I plan on being there.
It would be great to see you again.

Dave.

Dave, that certainly would be great! Just hope the weather is safe for driving though.
I would undoubtedly believe that Bernd would be there as well. I will plan on it.

Rich

Not necessarily. since Dan (Lief's Sales & Service) no longer sells at the show do to what happened during covid. I could be persuaded if both of you show up.

Bernd

[Michael Hohn]

I'm considering going but it's too early to commit.

Mike 

[Pennman]

OMG!! NO! If the four of us show up in the same place at the same time, again, we will undoubtedly end up in JAIL!! HaHa!

From left to right- Bernd (front), Pennman (Rich) in back,
Michael Hohn, Dave Buchholz

[Bernd]

Now there's a scary bunch if I've see one.

B~

[Philip]

  Nice photo!

[deemery]

OMG!! NO! If the four of us show up in the same place at the same time, again, we will undoubtedly end up in JAIL!! HaHa!

From left to right- Bernd (front), Pennman (Rich) in back,
Michael Holn, Dave Buchholz

Huh...   I was expecting to see that photo in the Post Office...  

dave

[Dave Buchholz]

That's where we took it down from.

[Pennman]

That's where we took it down from.

Good one, Dave HAHAHA

[Dave Buchholz]

I've been having some health issues with s rare skin disorder of late. So I have had some time off from work.The good news is that I  had time to clean off my hobby desk, and reset my brain towards hobbies.

As a model railroader in update New York, I admit to other fascinations along I-90. When driving through the Mohawk River Valley, one can't help but notice the locks, dams and bridges of the Erie Canal. I've often wondered how to incorporate a scene including a Lock. I could never figure it out until today.  I found some space.

[Dave Buchholz]

Here's where the canal will come down through a lock between the mill and cannery buildings.

They second view is simply from the opposite direction "out in Sodus Bay"

I'm using paper mock ups of some craftsman kits and a few scratch pieces to visualize the settings.

Unlike many modelers, I am intentionally putting larger buildings to the back walls and at higher elevations. It is somewhat opposite of using forced perspective. The details of small scenes will be up front.

Although the track plan is a bit out of date, I have  mentioned previously, the design is to make it look like the 1/87 track engineers had no other choice of paths to lay down the rails to  service the industries along the North Coast. Intentionally,  I didn't want tracks parallel to straight boring edges of the benchwork. To me, Nature came first, long before the iron horse.

[deemery]

A canal scene was something on my wish list that didn't make the current layout.  I was always inspired by pictures of the gravity railroad docks in Honesdale, PA on the Delaware & Hudson (railroad/canal).

dave

[Pennman]

Dave,

Sending along prayers for you and hopefully a speedy recovery.
As for the RR, you need consultation with a more experienced railroader than me.
Hope you work out the details, it looks interesting.

Rich

[Philip]

Great modeling photos and best wishes with your skin disorder.

Philip

[Mark Dalrymple]

Really interesting design, Dave.

I assume there are also some hidden staging tracks?  Are you planning on having a removable car ferry?  (Boomer diorama did something very similar - here is a link in case you don't know about it and are interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90lOf4om7bI) You have managed to pack in a lot of decent structures into the scene in a believable way.  Looking forward to your progress.

Cheers, Mark.