A Day On The A & T

[Cinnibar]

As you may have guessed, the Alpine & Terlingua is my pride and joy! I thought I would chronicle a typical day (an operating session) on the A & T with photos. I don’t have a very good digital so close ups fall out of background focus, but what the heck. I thought some of you may want to follow along through the days or weeks that it takes to do this. My plan is to do a couple of photos for each “event” that occurs on a typical day at Alpine, along the main, at Edwards Sawmill #3, at the Cat Pause Mine, and finally at Terlingua. None will win a photo contest but maybe I can inspire some witha “working” railroad.

A day starts on the A & T with the hostlers servicing the engines, all 2-8-0's ................

Here is No.6 taking on water...........

 

[Cinnibar]

The Sun Is UP

Water, dropping ashes, taking on sand and coal, all part of the morning routine..........

 

[Cinnibar]

A Spin on the Turntable

After servicing all three engines are turned and ready fot a trek down the main to Terlingua. In a day or two I'll wake up the crew at the Edwards Mill.

 

[Cinnibar]

Early Morn

Even the Milk Man is on his way!

 

[Tyson Rayles]

Neat idea, I'm looking forward to following along! If I haven't said before, you have a very nice looking layout!

 

[Ralph]

Great presentation and beautiful pictures of your fine layout! I recall Model Railroader used to present many of its featured layouts in this "typical day's operations" format and I always enjoyed it. Thanks for the tour!
Ralph

 

[rguyett]

good tour i will also follow along
looking good and you should be proud of it for sure
keep the pics coming

 

[Drew1125]

Wonderful idea, the "snapshots"!
I'll say it again, Cinibar...the layout is awesome!

 

[Clerk]

Layout??? ....I thought this was the real thing. Great pictures.

 

[Cinnibar]

Thanks All!

Thanks for the comments guys, I surely do appreciate them all. And you are right Ralph, I’m sure my brain reached a few feet back in my sub-conscious and pulled the idea from good ol’ MR magazine. This will be a fun project and when I’m done I think I’ll put the pictures on a CD and have them printed for an album, then I’ll always have the A & T in pictures. Thanks again guys.

 

[marc gast]

Day on the A & T

Hey all!

Don't let him fool you! He is one of the top notch modelers I have had the opportunity to meet! Also, a very dear friend.
He could win many a contest hands down! I lived in El Paso and met Jack in the mid-late 1990's. I was fortunate enough to have inherited his HO logging layout which has now been expande and become my Sasquatch & Bigfoot Northern Logging Company layout (check out my website for photos of Jack's work in HO). More photos of Jack A & T are also posted on my webpage.

Nice stuff as always!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marc

 

[Drew1125]

Hi Marc!
Welcome to The Gauge!
I saw some of "Cinibar's" photos on another forum, & I knew we had to get him over here to The Gauge...much more appreciative crowd here!
His photos have been a big inspiration to me, since I'm trying to build an N scale layout set in roughly the same era as the A&T!

 

[NScale]

WOW! Looks great! Thanks for sharing

 

[marc gast]

A & T

Charlie,

Yeppers, nice work there. Look forward to seeing some of your work.

If you get a chance, check out my webpage:

http://hometown.aol.com/SnBNLCRR/SnBNLCRRpg1.html

Thanks,

Marc

 

[Cinnibar]

Logging

Gentlemen,

I'm going to move this segment of "A Day On The A & T" over to the Logging Forum since this segment is all logging. See you there?

 

[rcwatkins]