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Posted by Dave on Sun Sep 22 22:28:13 2019, in response to Re: Starting to build the yard at Oyster Bay, posted by Joe V on Sun Sep 22 19:08:17 2019. Joe, do you know the history?Going back to the 1890's and as late as the early 1950's, there were plans to build a bridge across the Sound. Various locations were proposed and IIRC, the last was between OB and Rye. Due to cost and political infighting, the project finally died. My railroad - the "Long Island Sound Connecting RR" is similar in concept to the Terminal RR Association of St. Louis - TRRA - a switching and terminal railroad that handles traffic in the St. Louis area. When formed in 1889 it was owned by six railroads. My LISC connects Long Island with Connecticut and is jointly owned by the LIRR/PRR and New Haven. Terminals are in Oyster Bay and...an unmodeled terminal in CT. I will be modeling Greenwich, CT, serving several industries. An elevated station (not like the El in NYC but raised above local streets, like the NH did in Bridgeport) will be modeled but not connected to the rest of the layout. It will be used to display passenger trains and motive power. LISC doesn't own any of its own equipment (yet) so freights between LI and CT will be operated by the LIRR and the NH. LIRR passenger equipment will make regular showings in OB...after all, it is a commuter railroad! I'm also modeling a station at Locust Valley. The occasional fantrip will send LIRR passenger equipment across the Sound to CT, and NH fantrips will traverse southward across the water.  Operation will be with NCE DCC. I have a number of sound equipped NH diesels; one LIRR sound equipped RS-3; and will be getting a sound-equipped FM H16-44 due out in a few months (I hope!). I also have several NH non-sound equipped but decoder-equipped engines. My favorite is an A-A set of NH FA-1's in orange. One is sound equipped and the other is not. They look like this although this is an A-B-A lashup:  I also own a number of New York Central DC engines but I doubt I'll convert them to DCC. |
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