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Map to MGRS Annual Spring Luncheon Meeting

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Maine Railroad News

MPBN - Northern Maine Railroad to be Abandoned By Owner. Click here to read or Listen

Maine AP News -Maine To Get $35m To Extend Amtrak from Portland to Brunswick. Click here:
Mainebiz - Related Article

Cabin Fever is setting in fast.

Re-posted from last July (when things were green) Sorry, I get this way every year as February approaches and I long for Spring and Summer to return. -

It was a great day to get out in the yard and enjoy the sunshine, listing to the ball game, working on the rock pile. Running something different (and easy). Here are the Gandy Dancer's and the first G Scale engine I bought 23 years ago. Still runs great!

Speaking of Signals

This is a link to a web site that I just found which looks like it has everything you need to know about prototype G scale signals. You have to read it and study it but it looks very good to me.
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North American Rail Road Signals

Click here to see descriptions of signals:
Click here for more information:
The combined Crossing Signal and train signal light which Scott photographed and "tiny" Lee identified may be a very unique combination. Hopefully some of the information in these links will help.

Photo Fakery

Denneth Lee recalls riding his speeder over the line from Brunswick to Augusta (pictured on the cover of the January Iron Horse). Now that I recall, the background photos were taken on a road just off Route 24 (which parallels the track for several miles). Here are two views of the intersection where the photo was taken. (Denneth, I don't remember a church in the background, but I certainly accept your statement that "the odd thing about the crossing is [that] on the mast, you have a signal light for rail and signal lights for the road--the only place that most the motorcar group has seen that set-up.")

MMA Snow Plow

Denneth Lee fowarded these pictures from his friends who said "That must have been some Ride". I looked up MMA and found out it was formally the Bangor & Aroostook. In 2003 the assets were sold and the name changed to the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway. MMA owns over 745 route miles of track in Maine, Vermont, Quebec and New Brunswick, and operates approximately 25 trains daily with a fleet of 32 GE and EMD locomotives. Main line operations are conducted daily between Madawaska and Searsport, Maine, and from Brownville Junction, Maine to Montreal, Quebec.
Here is there web site:

MMA Map

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The January 2010 Newsletter is now on the Web Site

If you click on the "Iron Horse" image under the heading Current Newsletter at the left side of the blog you can link to view the current issue. Our thanks to Scott Gould who does an excellent job as editor. We are proud of the quality and content of each issue and if you want to share it with friends or family you can email them the link below.

http://www.mainegardenrailway.com-a.googlepages.com/MGRSIronHorseJan2010.pdf

Hi Guys

We saw your post on Florida & Maine.

We have been down here on the annual WDW trip.

It has been in the 70's here all week so far & seeing the weather back home.

We Hope these photos will Warm your day. The gang from the GWGRR

Rio Grande vs. Winter

Winter wins.

Our Friends from Florida. . . . Brrrrrr!

And they all thought that they were getting away from the cold and the ice!
These pictures are from Pete and Shirley, friends of NHGRS who I believe belong to the same RR Club that the "BBIG's" belong to. For MGRS members that would be (Bucky/Barry, Ivan/Gerry). Small world!

This is not a hy-rail truck.

Tiny sent me this yesterday and I saw it on the morning news today.

From Wayne:
This is one of the big timber trestles on the Buffalo & Pittsburgh in
Chicora, PA. Sometime between midnight and 4AM on Saturday, a very intoxicated woman in a Ford Explorer turned west at the Slippery Rock Street crossing, she crossed one 144' timber trestle, then made it most of the way across this bridge which is 529' long and 45' high. She abandoned the vehicle and then walked back across the bridge into town, a feat for a drunk person to do in the dark. The crane "rerailed" the vehicle then it was driven off the bridge. The moral of the story is that those inside guard rails and timber tie-spacers really do keep derailed cars from falling off the bridge.

World Trains

From Denneth 'tiny'Lee who sends us some pictures of trains around the world. From top to bottom and left to right we have UK, Spain, Japan, Korea, China, France and the final two are Pakistan and India.

Joe Ely

Now if you ever heard the whistle on a fast freight train
Beatin' out a beautiful tune
If you ever seen the cold blue railroad tracks
Shinin' by the light of the moon
If you ever felt the locomotive shake the ground
I know you don't have to be told
Why I'm goin down to the railroad tracks
And watch them lonesome boxcars roll.

Nevada Northern RR #93

Smoke pours from the stack as locomotive #93, the Nevada Northern's 2-8-0, runs light up-grade towards the Ruth wye. The whistle blows repeatedly as this beautiful steam loco chuffs past the camera. Nice crisp video, Click here:

Found on Website which 'tiny' Lee sent in. Thank You!
www.raydunakin.com

Go Figure

Article on the 'How To" about Figure making. Click here:

BAR

Nice Picture sent to us from Denneth Lee. One of tiny's friends sent it to him labeled as 'The Picture of the Day'.

Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington 9

Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington 0-4-4T no. 9 is perhaps the most historic of the surviving Maine 2-footers. Built in Maine by the Portland Locomotive Works, this 1891 Forney type served the Sandy River Railroad as their number 5, then Sandy River & Rangely Lakes as their number 6, and finally Kennebec Central as their number 4, before being sold to the original WW&F in 1933 and becoming their number 9. After the closure of the WW&F only a year later, no. 9 was sold to Mr. Frank Ramsdell, who moved her to his farm in Connecticut. She remained there until 1995 when Mr. Dale King, heir to the Ramsdell estate, loaned the engine to the WW&F Railway Museum in Alna, Maine. No. 9 holds the distinction of being the only surviving steam Locomotive of either the SR&RL, the most famous of the Maine two-foot lines, or the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington, as well as being the last surviving two-footer built by the Portland works.

Something Different

I came across this video that caught my attention. It is a live steam engine narrow gauge model I think, but take a close look at the track. I have never seen any G Scale track that was made this way. It probably is custom made. My guess is that this may have been done on real railroads. Does anyone know any examples of this? Possibly when converting from narrow to standard gauge?
Click here to see video

Today I was looking at a blog by Mike Hamer and found some good pictures. The MEC Caboose No. 661 is on display at the Danbury Railroad Museum, in Connecticut.

The other shot is from a train trip he described as: "Our dining car and the dining experience that goes with it over the three day journey is "first class" all the way! Imagine dining at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa or the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City or the Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta...well, that is what our dining experience was like aboard "The Canadian"!

It looks good to me. I love dining cars.

Looking Forward to 2010