I found these diagrams on a Dorchester Historical website:
As a result I relocated the complex to the front of the layout and added some additional trackage:
Monday, July 4, 2011
Revised layout for Baker Chocolate
I made some major revisions to Baker Chocolate, making it more of a centerpiece of the layout and also conforming the design more to the prototype.
I found these diagrams on a Dorchester Historical website:
As a result I relocated the complex to the front of the layout and added some additional trackage:
I found these diagrams on a Dorchester Historical website:
As a result I relocated the complex to the front of the layout and added some additional trackage:
Saturday, July 2, 2011
More on new track plan
The track plan I posted in my previous entry is somewhat freelance but tries to capture the essence of the Milton Branch.
The modeled portion of the branch starts at a 3 track staging yard at the bottom of the plan. This represents the Old Colony main through the Neponset area of Dorchester and the Southampton St. yard/ South Station which would be the terminus for freight and passenger trains respectively.
The line first crosses Granite St. where there is a commuter station and a couple of industries, Keystone Camera and a foundry / Scrapyard. There actually was a foundry located in that general area according to an old track plan I found from the 1930's. Keystone Camera's building still exists and has been turned into condos. It is the tall building you can see from I-93 approaching Boston from the south just before Neponset Circle.
Further on we come to Milton where there is another station and a short passing siding mostly to allow the local to run around cars for switching facing point sidings. A spur to the Baker Chocolate complex diverges here, crossing the Neponset river as did the prototype. I flipped the location of Baker so that it would be against the wall. The road crossing the tracks and river is Adams St. and is elevated above the RR here.
Around the next curve we have Central Ave. station and a relocated Sturtevant Mill co. (which was really in Dorchester near Harrison Sq.) The yard lead for Mattapan yard starts here.
The yard at Mattapan is a small affair including a couple of passenger tracks, freight yard tracks, and a small engine terminal. I could consider putting in a turntable since I do have a steamer which I anachronistically plan to run on occasion.
Freight service will consist of a through freight that will drop cars at the yard. A local switcher will then proceed to work the industries as far as Granite Ave., trying to stay out of the way of the commuter trains.
Commuter service will be provided mostly by RDC's, with a string of "American Flyer" coaches pulled by a PA-1 for rush hour. I am even thinking of occasional special camp trains servicing a mythical summer camp located in Milton that would bring sleepers into the tiny Mattapan terminal, hopelessly clogging things up.
The modeled portion of the branch starts at a 3 track staging yard at the bottom of the plan. This represents the Old Colony main through the Neponset area of Dorchester and the Southampton St. yard/ South Station which would be the terminus for freight and passenger trains respectively.
The line first crosses Granite St. where there is a commuter station and a couple of industries, Keystone Camera and a foundry / Scrapyard. There actually was a foundry located in that general area according to an old track plan I found from the 1930's. Keystone Camera's building still exists and has been turned into condos. It is the tall building you can see from I-93 approaching Boston from the south just before Neponset Circle.
Further on we come to Milton where there is another station and a short passing siding mostly to allow the local to run around cars for switching facing point sidings. A spur to the Baker Chocolate complex diverges here, crossing the Neponset river as did the prototype. I flipped the location of Baker so that it would be against the wall. The road crossing the tracks and river is Adams St. and is elevated above the RR here.
Around the next curve we have Central Ave. station and a relocated Sturtevant Mill co. (which was really in Dorchester near Harrison Sq.) The yard lead for Mattapan yard starts here.
The yard at Mattapan is a small affair including a couple of passenger tracks, freight yard tracks, and a small engine terminal. I could consider putting in a turntable since I do have a steamer which I anachronistically plan to run on occasion.
Freight service will consist of a through freight that will drop cars at the yard. A local switcher will then proceed to work the industries as far as Granite Ave., trying to stay out of the way of the commuter trains.
Commuter service will be provided mostly by RDC's, with a string of "American Flyer" coaches pulled by a PA-1 for rush hour. I am even thinking of occasional special camp trains servicing a mythical summer camp located in Milton that would bring sleepers into the tiny Mattapan terminal, hopelessly clogging things up.
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