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

[S&S RR]

John, you are amazing. A labor of love, as I know the time you spend cataloging, editing, re-sizing and posting these. I hope this is somehow saved for posterity in various "clouds" or whatever. Thanks!

Mike


Thanks - as you say it's a labor of love.  I can't tell you how many ideas have been generated from this project for my own layout.


And yes, it is backed up on my MacBook Pro which is backed up to the cloud.

[ACL1504]

Posting/hosting pictures on any sort of thread is a labor of love. It takes a great deal of time just to post a few photos much less doing so on a thread this size. Great job!

Tom

[S&S RR]

Posting/hosting pictures on any sort of thread is a labor of love. It takes a great deal of time just to post a few photos much less doing so on a thread this size. Great job!

Tom

Thanks Tom - we have lots of pictures to go.

[ACL1504]

John,

I have 30 or so pictures of the F&SM taken in November 1987. Bob Bourdreau took them. He sent them to a friend and the friend gave them to me when he passed.

Do you mind if I post them here? Interesting seeing the changes George has made over the years.

Tom

[S&S RR]

John,

I have 30 or so pictures of the F&SM taken in November 1987. Bob Bourdreau took them. He sent them to a friend and the friend gave them to me when he passed.

Do you mind if I post them here? Interesting seeing the changes George has made over the years.

Tom

Tom


Yes - please post them.  If they are from 1987, they should be of the area of the layout we are about to enter in the thread - so your timing is perfect.


Thanks,

[S&S RR]

Tonight we have a few pictures of the Northfields River Area.  Let's start with the lift bridge.





Notes added 12/11/15 after a phone conversation with George Sellios.  This Bridge was built from an article that appeared in the September 1953 Model Railroader.  George used Central Valley parts for the bridge iron work and the weights and other details are from his own castings.


Who has the September 1953 MR and would be willing to scan and post the article?

[S&S RR]

The River scene is highly detailed and there are a number of great pictures of the view under the bridge.  Here are a few I captured.

[S&S RR]

Northfield River Set 2:

[S&S RR]

Here are a few more from Mark Dalrymple:

[S&S RR]

And here are a couple captured by John Sullivan:

[S&S RR]

The Northfield River Pile Driver:

[S&S RR]

Northfield River Pile Driver Set 2:

[S&S RR]

The Northfield River Pile Driver from John Sullivan:

[Janbouli]

The bridge is magnificent.

[ACL1504]

I recently came across several F&SM pictures. They were all taken in November of 1987.  Bob Bourdreau took the photos. The story I have of the pictures is that my friend, Dick DeWitt (now deceased) purchased these off Ebay in 1988.

This was long before any forums and George Sellios stopped photo taking on the F&SM due to the fact he heard people were selling the photos of the F&SM.

These pictures came to me when Dick passed in 2009.

The pictures sure show a different look to the F&SM we see today. Here are the first two of about 30 I have from 1987.

John gave me permission to post these on his thread.