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Vito Piancone takes a break from the hot ovens to get some fresh air and "bend ears" with neighbors. Cops don't have to go far for the best pizza in Newark. The New Jersey State Police are here this evening; pizza pick-up no doubt (Photo location #2) Gilroy's Warehouse #3 is a long semi-flat structure kit squeezed into a tight space behind a scrapyard and refinery mural, perfect for easing the foreground into the background. Rust unifies the color palette used on the layout, providing theme and character. (Photo location #3) O Scale 2-Rail shelf layout built in a garage. Center is left open for parking. 1 grid square = 1 foot • O Scale Trains - July/August ’07
A view of the Debski Scrap Metal yard. Playing dark silhouettes against a brighter background creates a different mood. Night work means heavy "OT" for skilled 'dozer operators (that's "overtime" in case you white-collar types don't know). The gondola is one of those old Atlas kits from the '70s, still great models if you can find 'em! (Photo location #3) little HO dioramas I saw so many years ago. We live in a small town with few model railroaders in the area, so I had limited operating plans. This, coupled with my hatred of rail cleaning, energized me to try “on-board” battery powered DC with wireless control. An RCS system is being tested and evaluated at the present. The advantages are many, however one must also be aware of the disadvantages if one is considering this type of power. That’s a subject for another day, though. In terms of operations, the Ironbound receives loaded freight cars in a small interchange yard from the Pennsylvania’s freight line running through the Ironbound section of Newark. We have our eye on a big Pennsy GG1 to improve the illusion of this service. This will mean we have to electrify the upper line. More poles and wires to squeeze in. Cool! The name ”Ironbound” derives from an actual industrial section of Newark, surrounded on four sides by the high-iron of This scene shows the Ironbound roundhouse, where remaining ex-CNJ Camelbacks are housed until they are called into occasional service. The turntable is a Bowser HO Scale pit with O Scale bridge, just long enough to turn our 2-8-0 Camelback. The roundhouse and turntable were blended with the background photo-mural to create the kind of scene you might have found in the Meadowlands, across the Hudson from Manhattan. (Photo location #14) One of the author's favorite scenes shows a very small model that's big on charm. This is the kind of thing that appeals, even to non-train-lovers. Lit interiors working against dark exteriors are transformed into chiaroscuro style art. Ironbound <strong>trains</strong> run just behind the tiny fast-food diner, sometimes rattling the windows and making those little square burgers fall off their buns. (Photo location #2) the Pennsy, Lehigh Valley, and Jersey Central. My Ironbound RR crew shuffles the interchanged freight cars in the receiving yard, getting them lined up for local delivery to industries along the line. There is a steep grade from the PRR interchange yard down to the Ironbound main, so either our heavy SD9 or SW ”Cow & Calf” units handle this run. Proceeding on the lower mainline, the freight cars are dropped off at their respective destinations, with the large industrial area being the final area of activity for these drops. Usually the SD9 will drop the final cut of cars on a yard lead in the industrial section, run around the train, return to town, and park on a siding in East Newark where the crew will take a lunch-break at one of the nearby beaneries. A small GE 45-tonner, dedicated to the industrial yard, distributes incoming freight cars. The sidings are short and sharply curved, making it impossible for an SD9 to negotiate them. The 45-tonner will then stack outbound cars in that same yard leg. This requires many moves, keeping the operation spicy and challenging. After lunch, the SD9 crew returns to pick up outbound empties and loads, and hauls them back up the steep ramp to the Pennsy interchange yard. So goes the daily routine. We don’t use schedules, cards, or other devices. A cut of cars is randomly assembled and rolled into the interchange yard. Each type of car suggests its own destination. They are shuffled and the challenge is to figure out how to deliver them in the smallest number of moves, especially in that tight industrial yard. A gondola full of scrap metal goes to Debski & Sons Scrap Metals, a tank car goes to Dutch Boy Paints, boxcars to the huge Schmid Warehouse; you get the idea. The monkey wrench in the gears is that provision must also be made to allow our maintenance-of-way <strong>trains</strong> access to yard trackage which takes a daily pounding. The Ironbound is still using 39’ lengths of rail with joints that produce nice clicketyclacks. Of course we don’t use real 39’ lengths; we file faux ”joints” in the tops of the rails every 39’ or so. Whatever contributes to the illusion is a good thing. That’s our philosophy. Scheduled passenger service is available to our area factory workers. This is provided by the CNJ, which has running rights over the Ironbound. Normally, a single Jersey Central RDC unit suffices for the few regular daily commuters, but occasionally a couple of old CNJ heavyweight coaches are called into service behind an Alco RS3. July/August ’07- O Scale Trains •
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