12-29-2012, 02:00 PM
jwb Wrote:Here are some photos of the prototype for the Atlas factory: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.jamesburg.net/snuffedout01.html">http://www.jamesburg.net/snuffedout01.html</a><!-- m --> I hate to suggest another can of worms here, Reinhard, but notice that the line that served the plant had catenary posts, earlier with and later without catenary, common on ex-PRR Conrail freight-only lines in New Jersey and elsewhere, as Conrail gradually eliminated electric freight operation before 1981. (I think this line was de-electrified under PC; certainly coal trains to South Amboy via the secondary from Jamesburg ended in the early 1970s.)That link is great! The marketing photos of kits are usually very attractive but Atlas publishes some awful "all red" photos. I am glad to see how the real thing looked.
So you could add removable ex-catenary supports to your scene and take them out again when you decided it was Modesto!
I have no intention to go into PRR country and add catenary or some residual of it.
But I am facing another challenge. You may remember my home painted Bachmann based SP Geeps. The real thing from Athearn has been shipped last week and two of them arrived at Frankfurt airport customs today. I am determined to run them ones they make the last 200 miles (may take up to three weeks). I need a convincing story where my "brick dominated" layout my be located in the 1980s somewhere in SP land but I want to keep the opportunity to call it MILW-bandit and Conrail land too. I am afraid 2013 will stretch "freelance" even more than 2012 did :o
Reinhard