The Franklin & South Manchester Railroad - it's all about the details!

[jbelwood]

John, I hope this is not an intrusion into this thread. Here is my scratch built Walkers along
with another scratch built Dexter's building. Truth be known, I borrowed a friends Dexter's
Dead End kit as a reference for both models. George's Walker had those stairs down the
front  which brought more character to the structure.

[S&S RR]

John, I hope this is not an intrusion into this thread. Here is my scratch built Walkers along
with another scratch built Dexter's building. Truth be known, I borrowed a friends Dexter's
Dead End kit as a reference for both models. George's Walker had those stairs down the
front  which brought more character to the structure.

John

Great looking build! It is not an intrusion - I welcome it and I know George loves it when his work gives inspiration to others.  Thanks for sharing.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Great looking layout, John!  A very interesting cluttered city look with nice changes in height.  Just the sort of look I love.

Cheers, Mark.

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This week I decided to add three structures - the first is the Mt. Allen Trestle.  As you can see in the first picture George has placed one of his kit structures Mackenzie Milling at the foot of Trestle.

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A couple pictures of Mackenzie Milling Company:

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A few pictures showing the Mt. Allen Trestle complete with Diesel Salesman.

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A few more of the Trestle:

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Finally for this week, since it's in the background of the trestle one of my favorite structures on the F&SM the Stone Roundhouse.  I took lots of photographs of this structure because it was a project on my workbench at the time of my last visit to the F&SM.  The structure was designed by Bob VanGelder and later became a South River Model Works kit.

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The rear view of the Roundhouse - the Trestle side.

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The left side view:

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The right side view:

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The Front View:

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A couple more photographs of the details in the side yard:

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For the next several weeks I'm going to concentrate on the structures in Franklin. I have a lot of work to do to organize the pictures and get ready so stay tuned.

[jknapp]

Hi John.....just wanted to let you know (again!) that I, and I'm sure many others, really appreciate the effort and time you're taking to post all of these photos.  And I really like the way your doing it (ie: structure by structure).  Keep up the good work!

John Knapp
Sellersville, PA