Friday, August 22, 2025

East-end Staging Yard

The benchwork is in place for the east-end staging yard, representing the CPR Gibson Subdivision east of Hainesville. The staging yard will be just below East Newbridge and South Newbrdge. It is time to start laying track! There will be 8 staging tracks (4 tracks for the 3 daily passenger trains, 2 tracks for the CPR local freight, and 2 tracks for the CRY/CPR fast freight. I still need to construct the removable "bridge" over the sink. Once completed, the staging yard will make it possible for the big yard in Millville to be a functional classification yard with its own yardmaster.



Sunday, July 13, 2025

Recommended Resources for Modelling the Potato Industry

 

Incorporating Potato Farming and Shipping on a Model Railway


Recommended Resources

1.     These two National Film Board of Canada videos, free online, provide exceptional insight into the potato industry in Carleton County, NB.

·        "Harvest in the Valley" 1955   https://www.nfb.ca/film/harvest_in_valley/

·        "Potatoes" 1976   https://www.nfb.ca/film/potatoes/

 

2.     About modelling the potato industry in Maine:

·        “Aroostook – A Railroad You Can Model,” by Peter A. Cook.  Model Railroader

July 1966.

 

3.     For anyone interested in potato shipping by rail from Prince Edward Island:

·        https://princestreet.wordpress.com (Chris Mears).  Search for “potato” for great info about potato shipping on Prince Edward Island.

 

The Carleton Railway:

Email:  mcmulls@nb.sympatico.ca

Instagram:  @carletonrailway

Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TTX0pGBz18

(20-minute 2023 layout tour)