Miniature Railroad Club Of York - Page 2-Photos

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1. Views Looking Toward
            The Front Wall (below)
            
            
            
2. Views Along The
            North Wall - In The Front Of The Building
            (below)
            
            
3. Views Along The
            North Wall - In The Rear Of The Building
            (below)
            
            
4. Views Looking Toward
            The Rear Wall (below)
            
            
5. Views Along The
            South Wall (below)
            
            

         
      
   

Notes

• Order Of Photos: These photos are ordered more or less as you would have seen the layout by entering the front door, and then moving clockwise around the layout.
• Design: The layout runs around all 4 walls of the building, and passes right over top of the front door.

Opinion

• This club is probably one of the most secure clubs in the area, for the following reasons:
  • The club owns the building (nobody can evict them)
  • The club designed and built the building to fit the railroad. Everything "works"--there is plenty of railroad and plenty of room for the public.
  • The building appears very secure--built like a concrete bomb shelter--which should minimize the risk of vandalism or arson, which some clubs have suffered.

• Opinion: This is the way all buildings should be designed !! . . . so you can run model trains around the room and over the door without interfering with pedestrian traffic flow.

• Note: After you enter the buiding, the north wall is to the left, which is how you would proceed if you tour the layout in a clockwise direction.

Photo 3 - Standing along the north wall, looking back toward the front of the building (543b)

 

 

Photo 4 - A closer look at the northwest corner (538b)

• You can see the front door in the upper left corner of this photo

• You can see this location in Photo 3 also.

• The cog is kitbashed. The drive is in the passenger car. You can see the cog wheel just to the left of the right truck.

• You can see this ferris wheel also in Photo 1.
• Note the mainline goes through a hole in the wall which you can see in the upper left.
• The city continues to the right of this photo. Note the yellow control tower, which you can find in the next photo.

• Note the yellow control tower mentioned in the previous photo, can be seen in the background.

• The vantage point of the previous photo is just behind this tower.
• Trains on the mainline come through the hole in the wall, and would enter this photo near the upper right, about where the gentlemen in the yellow cap is staring.
• You can see the location of the front door at the very rear of the photo.

• This scene is located behind the little yellow caboose in the previous photo

• The location of the yard seen in the previous photo, is not visible in this photo, but is approximately to the left of this photo

• Note that you can see this area in the back of the previous photo

• Note the locatioin of the man with the pipe in his mouth. The following photo was taken slight behind where he is standing, looking in this direction.

• The previous Photo 15 was taken about where the man and woman in the background are standing.
• Incidently, the gentleman in the black hat is the club's president, Ned Thomas.

This page released 12/30/00, and last modified 1/4/00