Will_annand
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Well, I thought I would show off today.
The Credit Valley Railway was the first standard gauge railway to have access to Toronto, ONtario. The prototype ran from 1871-1883. The mainline as originally designed was from Toronto to Orangeville running through the Credit Valley, hence the name. There were two branchlines, one from Streetsville to St. Thomas and a second from Cataract to Elora. For a total of 205 miles. It was then merged with the Ontario and Quebec Railway and eventually became part of the Canadian Pacific. To George Laidlaw's credit, he was the original "father of the CVR" all but 32 miles of his original right-of-way is still being used today, 138 years after he planned it.
My layout is "Protolanced", a what if the CVR was still operating circa 1890-1900 and covers the 18 miles from Orangeville south to Cheltenham.
I started with a simple trackplan:
and over the course of the last year I have re-created that route. It is still a work in progress, things are just roughed in for the most part.
I set up a website for the layout:
http://www.muskokacomputes.com/CVR-Home.html
Here are a couple of shots of the layout.
First Uncle Henry is resting after putting up his billboard. This was done for our first public open house.
Then Ma and Pa Caswell and Clarabelle Cow.
And the "Wild Corner" just south of Orangeville.
You can read about the whole layout, including a photographic retrospective of how far it has come in 14 months at the website:
http://www.muskokacomputes.com/CVR-Home.html
The Credit Valley Railway was the first standard gauge railway to have access to Toronto, ONtario. The prototype ran from 1871-1883. The mainline as originally designed was from Toronto to Orangeville running through the Credit Valley, hence the name. There were two branchlines, one from Streetsville to St. Thomas and a second from Cataract to Elora. For a total of 205 miles. It was then merged with the Ontario and Quebec Railway and eventually became part of the Canadian Pacific. To George Laidlaw's credit, he was the original "father of the CVR" all but 32 miles of his original right-of-way is still being used today, 138 years after he planned it.
My layout is "Protolanced", a what if the CVR was still operating circa 1890-1900 and covers the 18 miles from Orangeville south to Cheltenham.
I started with a simple trackplan:
and over the course of the last year I have re-created that route. It is still a work in progress, things are just roughed in for the most part.
I set up a website for the layout:
http://www.muskokacomputes.com/CVR-Home.html
Here are a couple of shots of the layout.
First Uncle Henry is resting after putting up his billboard. This was done for our first public open house.
Then Ma and Pa Caswell and Clarabelle Cow.
And the "Wild Corner" just south of Orangeville.
You can read about the whole layout, including a photographic retrospective of how far it has come in 14 months at the website:
http://www.muskokacomputes.com/CVR-Home.html
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