Hon3 historic model of the Morrison branch of the D.S.P.&.P RR

[Kylemaneti95]

Thankyou Snowman life gets like this sometimes, and I understand being the go-to-guy. I’m basically that for my family as well lol, there’s always a side project to keep us busy that’s for sure. Hope all is going well in your neck of the woods

 

[Snowman]

Yeah it does sometimes. Thanks for the well wishes, much appreciated.

 

[Kylemaneti95]

Of course friend

 

[zzr1200guy]

Like what I'm seeing.

 

[R.U. Lucky]

Kylemaneti95- I retired last Sept. and was thinking about railroad modeling in my retirement. For the last 32 years have been living in what was left of the American hotel (pg. 15, Chappell, Richardson & Hauck, "default (1).jpg) . I have attached a few of my collection of historic photos of Morrison, including the train station and the Kendrick Hotel, which I believe burned down. . I came upon this group and what you are doing with your modeling of Morrison. I have been the architect on a number of commercial and residential remodels in Morrison- including a reconstruction/remodeling of the John Ross Hardware Building 209 Bear Creek Ave (Cafe Prague) , the El Mercado 120 Bear Creek, and the Tabor Building 215 Bear Creek. i.e. I have scaled AutoCAD and pdfs of those three buildings for your use in your model. Let me know how I can help you.

 

[Snowman]

I just PM'ed Kyle, and I hope he talks with you soon. Haven't heard from him for a while now--I think he had to push his project onto a back burner--but he said he was going to bring it back up front before too long.

 

[Kylemaneti95]

Thank you so much for your replies guys. I have had to put the project on the backburner like snowman mentioned. My roommates and I are trying to move to a new place soon and right now I don’t have the space todo any real modeling. Yet… I still have my paper models and the cad models that I worked in months ago waiting to be worked on again.
Randy thank you so much for sharing those historic photos with me, I haven’t seen any of those yet and the one with the station will really help me a lot as I’ve only seen it in the background of photographs. I would be interested in seeing what else you have for Morrison, it’s such a lovely small town that’s changed a lot in the last 150 years.
I’m going to be posting more regularly with another project I have been working on.
Back at the beginning of last October I started making cad models for a live steam locomotive designed by Doug Alkire in the 1960’s, the model is of a Baltimore & Ohio P7 class, #5300 “President Washington.”
I look forward to chatting with all of you guys again and I hope your all having a wonderful day

 

[Kylemaneti95]

Randy, I’ll have to find my notebook but I believe you are right about the fire. I saw a couple separate fires in historic news articles. As well as a couple really good floods that came around as well.

 

[Kylemaneti95]

Kylemaneti95- I retired last Sept. and was thinking about railroad modeling in my retirement. For the last 32 years have been living in what was left of the American hotel (pg. 15, Chappell, Richardson & Hauck, "default (1).jpg) . I have attached a few of my collection of historic photos of Morrison, including the train station and the Kendrick Hotel, which I believe burned down. . I came upon this group and what you are doing with your modeling of Morrison. I have been the architect on a number of commercial and residential remodels in Morrison- including a reconstruction/remodeling of the John Ross Hardware Building 209 Bear Creek Ave (Cafe Prague) , the El Mercado 120 Bear Creek, and the Tabor Building 215 Bear Creek. i.e. I have scaled AutoCAD and pdfs of those three buildings for your use in your model. Let me know how I can help you.

I’m really curious about the auto cad models and pdfs you have for those three buildings. I don’t use autocad but I do use a different program called onshape

 

[R.U. Lucky]

Kylemaneti95- will "Onshape" read AutoCAD's ".dwg" files? Can I attach pdfs here at Railroad forum? Is there a size limi of pdf files?

 

[Kylemaneti95]

Kylemaneti95- will "Onshape" read AutoCAD's ".dwg" files? Can I attach pdfs here at Railroad forum? Is there a size limi of pdf files?

I believe it does, I have been able to import a few drawings into my part studio for the B&O P7 locomotive. As to attaching pdfs, I think you might be able to, I have never done this before though. Maybe another member could chime in hopefully

 

[R.U. Lucky]

Kylemaneti95- I have switched to an N scale model of Morrison in 1890, due to lack. of space. My layout is 3' x 8 attached, where I was able to scale the 1874 plat of Morrison to N scale and have it plotted and printed at my local repro store (Hope Repro). My house, the original railroad bunkhouse/American Hotel built in 1872, is at the far right end of the plot, on Spring St. . The train set I purchased for my model is the Bachman Durango Silverton. I priced buying parts and pieces to get a more authentic DRG & P train at N scale- boy, this hobby is expensive! Anyway, my model is more like a diaroama than a working model unless I use the turntable model i am building and change direction. The train would travel 5' in one direction turn around and come back. . I just tell visitors that this depicts the rare occasion when the Durango Silverton visited Morrison! This message would not accept a. upload of a .dwg AutoCAD file.

 

[Kylemaneti95]

Kylemaneti95- I have switched to an N scale model of Morrison in 1890, due to lack. of space. My layout is 3' x 8 attached, where I was able to scale the 1874 plat of Morrison to N scale and have it plotted and printed at my local repro store (Hope Repro). My house, the original railroad bunkhouse/American Hotel built in 1872, is at the far right end of the plot, on Spring St. . The train set I purchased for my model is the Bachman Durango Silverton. I priced buying parts and pieces to get a more authentic DRG & P train at N scale- boy, this hobby is expensive! Anyway, my model is more like a diaroama than a working model unless I use the turntable model i am building and change direction. The train would travel 5' in one direction turn around and come back. . I just tell visitors that this depicts the rare occasion when the Durango Silverton visited Morrison! This message would not accept a. upload of a .dwg AutoCAD file.

Thank you so much for the reply friend and thank you for posting those plot maps. I’ve seen a couple before, but not these and of a lower more grainy quality lol. I’d love to see how your layout looks, switching to n scale would definitely help minimize space for me as well. And I agree, our hobby can prove to be quite pricey at times