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Page 4 - Pictures taken at the Prairie Rail Workshop
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Page 4 - Pictures taken at the Prairie Rail Workshop
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Wolf Kurz chats with Dr. Wood at the Prairie Rail Workshop February
2001 show. Talking with guests is as important as running the trains
when showing the layout.
-Jim Banner image
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The grocery store owner waits patiently as the morning train is switched
and the baggage car unloaded. Soon his fresh produce will arrive
and the day's business will begin.
-Jim Banner image
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A hungry hobo looks longingly at the dinning car as the morning train
pulls out of Harmony. He is too busy to admire Scott Gibb's fine
string of Canadian National passenger cars by Aristo-Craft.
-Jim Banner image
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The crane operator and the bucket man try to decide just where to drop
a load of coal in this new fangled diesel engine.
-Jim Banner image
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New diesel or old steam, they are all the same to these sand house
workers - they all need sand for added traction.
-Jim Banner image
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| A high wooden trestle runs behind the old
town of Wolf Creek. The Shay will use this trestle to drop loads
of coal into a tipple that is presently under construction.
-Jim Banner panoramic image
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The Shay pushing a load of coal up the trestle behind Wolf Creek almost
looks like it is running on the roof of the Hotel and Saloon.
-Jim Banner image
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The Shay pushes a load of coal and pulls a caboose up the trestle toward
the tipple (or at least, where the tipple will be.)
-Jim Banner image
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The BiG Railway welding shop and everything in it except for the man
was scratch built, mostly from sheet styrene. The welder's arc is
operated by a Circuitron module under the shop.
-Jim Banner image
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Lefty, the one armed brakeman, rides Scott Gibb's custom painted Dumont
Express Lines caboose. Lefty started out as part of the Bachmann
line. He had his lantern electrified while serving the D.E.L.
And he lost his left arm in an accident on the Wolf Creek Division.
His unfortunate accident put an end to his hopes of advancing to fireman,
but philosophical Lefty just shrugs and says he is satisfied with being
the best dang brakeman on this or any other line.
-Jim Banner image
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A Climax pulls a slow freight past the cabin in the woods while a motorist
waits patiently to cross the tracks. The construction of this cabin
is covered in detail in the article Designing
and Building with Styrene.
-Jim Banner image
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