Hedley Junction

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We resumed our mock up work at the club yesterday evening, trying to tackle the tunnel exit from the furnace room. On the prototype, this part is called Saint-Joachim, a nice rolling countryside with 300 years old farms. Using old building I once kitbashed, we tried to capture this feeling of farmland and track curving gently under large trees.

All tracks in this section have been primed with red/brown primer and then painted with acrylics to simulate different type of ties (new, old, etc.).



A general view of the sawmill site.



The old farm located right to the sawmill. The farmhouse is built according to a prototype still standing in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré and built circa 1658. Probably among the oldest houses still surviving in Canada. The farm follow a mansard-roofed prototype located in another village, it was quite fashionable during the late 19th century. I'm quite satisfied with this mock up because it really catch the character of the place, well beyond the generic North American rural city found anywhere and nowhere.





Hidden tunnel entrance and semaphore:



Railroad crossing:



During our work, we were lucky enough to see the #429 pulling a light freight train through St. Joachim.



Matt