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Posted: 8/17/2024 12:08:30 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Leisure_Shoot]
It's 8am at Boaz siding, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Grade for the Norfolk & Western. It's 1958 and Steam's most impressive battle against gravity has just a couple months left to play out. The coal train is just starting to slow (notice the unburnt fuel as the engineer lets off the throttle) and will stop once the train clears the siding. Then the Y6b in the siding will pull out and couple onto the rear of the cabin car and signal the lead engines with its whistle, then listen for their response. Now the pusher starts to SHOVE. Finally the lead engines start to move and the train is off for an 8 mile trip that climbs from 833 ft above sea level to 1296 ft with a 1.2% grade culminating at Blue Ridge VA passenger station. Look in the comments below for a spectacular recording of this scene on YouTube by O. Winston Link.
Boaz siding (labeled just "pusher siding", on N&W track charts) was located just east of Roanoke VA, between Vinton and Bonsack. The name Boaz comes from the farmland family where the siding sat. Today, this site is soccer fields and suburban housing. This is my reproduction of that place.   The willow tree is still in-progress  |
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Posted: 8/17/2024 12:10:56 AM EDT
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@DoubleARon
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Posted: 8/17/2024 12:14:09 AM EDT
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Very cool
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Posted: 8/17/2024 2:27:26 AM EDT
[#3]
That is some ridiculously nice work.
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Posted: 8/17/2024 6:43:50 AM EDT
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Amazing
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Posted: 8/17/2024 7:01:01 AM EDT
[#5]
Cool.
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Posted: 8/17/2024 9:19:13 AM EDT
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I love well-done dioramas like OP's.
Came back to post after going down a "Boaz pusher siding" rabbit hole about locomotives.  |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 8/17/2024 9:22:19 AM EDT
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That is fucking incredible, great job sir.
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Posted: 8/17/2024 11:12:37 AM EDT
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I should have included this in my original post
This recording was made in the very spot I have modeled. It is unique and that there is a narration of events, so you can understand exactly what you are hearing.  O Winston Link Thunder on Blue Ridge - Sounds of Steam Railroading Vol.3, 1959. |
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Posted: 8/17/2024 11:24:13 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/17/2024 11:24:19 AM EDT
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You've got a great deal of talent, OP. Well done!
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Posted: 8/17/2024 11:36:41 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/17/2024 11:39:14 AM EDT
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This photo is taken just to the left of my photo angle. The steam pusher crew sat under the willow tree, waiting for a coal train to push over the mountain.
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Posted: 8/17/2024 11:52:38 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Leisure_Shoot]
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I built this scene over the past year+ to take to the N&W Historical Society meeting in Roanoke this past summer.
I met a handful of people who visited this spot in the late 50's. One notable person was a woman whose father was an engineer who was often assigned to this spot. One Sunday on the way home from church they stopped here, and he took her up in the cab of the pusher locomotive staged on the siding. He told her not to touch anything or her mom would kill him if her dress was ruined. The engineer and her dad had her move the locomotive up and down the siding (maybe 50-100 ft). Afterward, her dad told her she was probably the only woman in the world who had run one of these types of locomotives. This scene is built as close to scale as I could possibly make it. The siding is exactly to scale. The culvert is still there, as is the ditch. The willow and the siding are gone.  under the willow tree 
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Posted: 8/17/2024 12:27:11 PM EDT
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That is as perfect a model RR scene as I have ever laid eyes on.
Beautiful! |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 8/17/2024 12:53:40 PM EDT
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Wow, that is nicely detailed. Love it, especially the "Under the Willow Tree" scene. Make me wanna take a break
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Posted: 8/17/2024 5:19:03 PM EDT
[#16]
Thats really nice
Can it be connected to modules? |
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Posted: 8/17/2024 6:12:52 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Leisure_Shoot]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JQ66: Thats really nice Can it be connected to modules?  ), but it is 7 1/2 ft long, so I assume I could make it meet standards with appropriate conversion pieces. The double track is to prototype centers spacing, which is too close for modules, I think. |
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Posted: 8/17/2024 6:23:16 PM EDT
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pretty cool
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Posted: 8/17/2024 6:28:49 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Leisure_Shoot]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Andr0id: That is as perfect a model RR scene as I have ever laid eyes on. Beautiful! |
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Posted: 8/17/2024 6:52:12 PM EDT
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Absolutely stunning..!!!
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Posted: 8/17/2024 7:06:06 PM EDT
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That’s awesome.
And I hope you don’t have a freezer full of imitation crab legs. |
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Posted: 8/17/2024 7:26:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FredMan: That's awesome. And I hope you don't have a freezer full of imitation crab legs. |
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Posted: 8/17/2024 7:38:59 PM EDT
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That's impressive. Top notch work there OP.
If you like trains, you will LOVE this:  How a Steam Locomotive Works (Union Pacific "Big Boy") |
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Posted: 8/18/2024 2:20:20 AM EDT
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Wow thats fuckin legit bro.
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Posted: 8/18/2024 7:07:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By EvoXGunner: Wow thats fuckin legit bro. 3D modeling things like the shed from pictures 
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Posted: 8/18/2024 7:12:51 PM EDT
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Absolutely amazing work sir. Thank you for the privilege of seeing it.
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