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We are pleased to announce the WINNERS of our first ever
Layout Design Contest!
The
first prize winner of our contest is
Jim Schenk with his
submission entitled “Appleton
Wisconsin”.
Jim’s plan is an adaptation of a John Armstrong plan
called” The St Clair South West” and Jim’s version represents a
segment of the C&NW’s trackage from Milwaukee to Green Bay that
runs from Appleton Junction northward through Appleton and
Kaukauna. Featured
on this layout are a busy harbor with car ferry service, a paper
mill and a gravel quarry.
Second Place
goes to
Peter Faber
for his layout “ Saesing Station” in his native village in
Denmark.
The layout is a fantasy layout, but based on a real train
station on a minor local railway the ”Hjoerring-Hoerby private
railway HHP”, that was
opened on November 8. 1913, and sadly closed again, due to truck
and bus traffic taking over, march 15. 1953.
The original station was a single track passing through station
with one sidetrack, to hold the boxcars when the peat was
loaded. The main cargo was peat, maize and passengers to the larger cities in both
ends of the railway. In the peak year
(1924/25) there were 141,000 passengers on the railroad, and
27,000 tons of cargo.
Saesing
station, is set in the late 1940’s to approx 1955, that is the
period around the closing of the railway,.
But in Peter’s world, the local community sees it as a good investment
to let both regional and long distance trains pass through
Saesing Station and therefore, the station has expanded to a
local track (where the steamers turn each time they
arrive in Saesing) and a track for the larger trains going
East - West. It’s Peter's intention to actually implement this “module”
in a larger home layout
Third prize is another Jim Schenk layout
– Toledo Union Station. This layout is a fairly
accurate depiction of the trackage in and around Toledo Union
Station in Toledo, Ohio
in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The operation focuses mainly
on passenger trains but there is one industry along the Maumee
River that gets a fair share of action; The Kuhlman Materials
Corporation, a construction supply company with a large bulk
materials facility generates traffic for both rail and water
shippers. The principal railroads that ran through
Toledo
were the New York Central, Baltimore
and Ohio, Nickel Plate and Wabash.
All provided passenger service with the New York Central having
the most daily trains.
All three
layouts will appear as Featured Layouts of the Month starting
with January.
Congratulations to our prize winners and a big THANK YOU
to all of you submitted entries |
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