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| Deerfield River Valley Railroad Boston & Maine In HO Scale The Hoosac Route Greenfield to North Adams " Celebrating my 53rd year of Model Railroading " If you would like to contact us click onto contact us link at left and an email window will come up shortly. Model Railroading Is Truly The Greatest Hobby In The World.! |
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6-10-11
F7 4265 - GP9 1745 - and F7 B 4267 exit the West Portal of Hoosac Tunnel.
I often run some strange lash-ups as the B&M once did back in the 70's when
power was hard to come by.
I often run some strange lash-ups as the B&M once did back in the 70's when
power was hard to come by.
I'm planning on operating much more 38's & 40's and have quite a lot of them all
Atlas. I bought this lead GP40 not long ago in a one of a kind paint.
Atlas. I bought this lead GP40 not long ago in a one of a kind paint.
| I still plan on operating a lot of Guilford equipment by Atlas and Proto but have sold off most of the Guilford Athearn units. |
| I Know a lot of you dis-like Guilford and for 25 years I hated that Railroad also because I was let go in 1983 at East Deerfield when I wouldn't re-locate to a track crew in NH. I finely got over the bad taste in my mouth for Springfield Terminal once they came up with Pan Am. Now that Pan Am has teamed up with Norfolk Southern most of the Big G Locomotives are long gone and only seen on Model Layouts like mine. I'm not into "Pan Am Airplane's or "Norfolk Southern Pony Poop..!" I'll stick with the B&M in different stages including the Guilford era. |
| The river scene is finished but we are going to build another on the other side of the layout once we get around to that location. |
| I got a lot of photos of action at Deerfield on Mon 10-10-11 Labor day weekend and haven't seen this much activity in a long time, could have been from all the washouts heading west and all the repairs that took time from the hurricane. We saw a flurry of moves in both directions both at the yard and at the East portal of Hoosac Tunnel. Nice to see the old maroon colors once again. |
| Iv sold off a great deal of motive power to focus more on the late 1970's and early 80's and have bought and or traded back a lot of units that I had painted and decaled myself years ago. I have quite a lot of B&M power that represents early first generation diesel Locomotives up to the GP38 and GP40 era. I have no more yard so most switchers are being sold on eBay. I have RS2's RS3's FT's and a few other F series units along with several Berkshire steam locomotives. Steam was pretty much gone as I was born in 1950 and can only remember seeing a few at Deerfield at a very young age but oh those nice new FT units looked so different. |
| Marcy on the right is my Maintainer who helps keep the Layout in dust free condition and usually does so most every Sunday. Its not an easy task to well maintain a Model Railroad Layout and even with this one being on the small side it still can demand a lot of time to keep it looking its best. Marcy dusts from top to bottom inside and out to keep it as clean as possible being it covers a large surface and can attract a lot of dust and cobwebs. |
| Jamie on the left is my painter and repair person when it comes to the Layout room or the bench work and she has repaired the walls and painted the entire room with all the walls and ceilings at least twice over the last three years. We're adding a lot more shelving under the layout plus up on the walls and it all will need at least two coats of paint so more paint work for Jamie and more dusting for Marcy.. A Big Thank You Lady's cause without you Id have to do all this and that ain't happening any time soon..!! |
A Guilford SD26 is in the lead with a GP35, and SD35 with 48 cars as it clears the covered bridge
leaving Greenfield on its way by the Prince Spaghetti Plant in route to North Adams 45 miles to the
North West. Years ago my Model Railroad use to have a good size 5' wide by 32' long version of
the Boston & Maine East Deerfield Yard with 55 switches and 14 lead tracks wide along with the
engine service buildings, roundhouse, and the Farm Bureau Feeds Mill located next to the yard.
I could stage over 20 locomotives and had well over 100+ cars on the sidings.
leaving Greenfield on its way by the Prince Spaghetti Plant in route to North Adams 45 miles to the
North West. Years ago my Model Railroad use to have a good size 5' wide by 32' long version of
the Boston & Maine East Deerfield Yard with 55 switches and 14 lead tracks wide along with the
engine service buildings, roundhouse, and the Farm Bureau Feeds Mill located next to the yard.
I could stage over 20 locomotives and had well over 100+ cars on the sidings.
| From left to right Jim Fuller - Sue Picone - Ed Richardson - Dean McGranahan - Diane Fuller - Marcy Bibbo Phil and Brenda Opielowski. Jamie Girouard pictured below wasn't with us the day the group photo taken. All of these people over the years have had a lot to do with the creation of this Model Railroad in one way or another and I cant thank them enough..! |
| For over a year now Iv been working on putting together a large collection of Athearn HO B&M 40' Open Hoppers in the sort of McGinnes blue colors that never existed on the B&M and at this point I now have 132 cars in the blue and 38 same style Athearn cars in the black version that sort of did exist. I'm planning again on building either a Coal Fired Electric Power Plant or a large Coal Mine in the location that the yard occupied to utilize all these Coal Cars. Iv always been very fascinated in unit Coal Trains and this is my main theme with my Layout now being that the East Deerfield Yard has been removed. Iv saved everything from what was left of the yard and may someday build another large same 1990 version after I'm retired. |
| This week 1-7-12 Ed and Dean were both here and Dean did the last of the work on the Prince Spaghetti Plant and its now about finished and ready to install on the layout once the glue drys from tonights assembly of the 4 silos that go with the building. Eds pencil sure got a workout tonight with lots of measuring we did to get ready to re-locate the entertainment center and work desk. We also removed one bench leg and installed a new one in a different location to widen a space for the under layout TV and sound system. |
| The East Deerfield yard is gone having been destroyed by tornado damage back on June 1st. so we've had a lot of reconstruction going on and some rather large projects with building new industry's and a much bigger project will be getting under way in a couple weeks with building a power plant or Coal Mine,, just not sure which one as yet. |
| Iv been buying up a lot of these two versions of Athearn HO Open Hoppers to put together several unit Coal Trains on the Layout. Every car is being fitted with newer trucks, couplers, loads, and weathered. I'm not changing the car numbers and plan on doing a few videos to upload on Youtube most likely in about 10 months using both versions of these cars. I now have 126 of the blue and 31 of the black. |