Hi there!
ANDREW BAIRD sent this to my Amiga 2000 computer:
> Bill,
>
> Great website.
>
> I will be ordering the rescue tug as that looks just like the rescue tug
> my grandfather was on over in England in WWII.
>
> Yes the size would be huge in S. My dock scene in total is just under 5'
> so it would take up the whole length.
Hmmm, seems to me you will not try to model the Port of Montreal in
S scale... ;)
Sorry to "hijack" this topic a little... or maybe more than a little
but...
Somehow, when I was much younger, I wanted to "copy" in HO scale, some
part or maybe the entire Port of Montreal... on a 4x8 foot table (!!) how
foolish I was in those years [I was about 13 or so... BUT! I had some
reasoning behind this: I was taking courses at "College Ville Marie"
which was right besides the CPR mainline from Outremont yard, the ANGUS
shops (which were about 1/4 mile from CVM) and to Port of Montreal... so my
"train education" mostly started in those school years!]
...But then again, POM is interesting to model (albeit very selectively
compressed), because of many things:
-Grain Silo #5 [near Pointe St Charles], LOTS of PVC pipes will be needed
to model it, and that is an understatement ;) The structure is HUGE: I
think it is about one mile long.
-Old Montreal structures along the La Commune street (located besides the
port): very old buildings, some of these are more than 300 years old.
-Many places to do some switching... especially on the eastern part of the
Port's trackage [Hochelaga Yard, Molson Brewery, etc.]
-The Lachine Canal ends at the western part of the port (besides Grain Silo
#5) and can be incorporated in part.
-The "Ferme Saint Gabriel" is fairly near the western part of that area, it
is one of the oldest buildings in Canada. (and fortunately, small enough
to be modellable in S)
..and speaking of the western part of the Port of Montreal, you could
include part of the Pointe St Charles railroad yards, as well as a portion
of the Victoria bridge, and numerous other "features" of the area... so
sky ...or more accurately: layout space... is the limit!
-For backdrop purposes, you could have a "panorama" photo of Downtown
Montreal, including -of course!- the Mont Royal mountain.
-Oh and did I mention the Jacques Cartier bridge, which crosses over the
ST Lawrence river and the eastern part of the port? And near that, the
ancient and picturesque Craig street pumping station, which I mentioned
many S scale list emails ago... [I don't remember the message's number...
but you can use the search engine... I put many web links for that
pumping station]
I write all this so if anybody here wants to have a theme for a future
layout, this may be worth a try...
Happy 'port'ing!
See ya all!
Charles Jacob.
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