Hedley Junction

[sailormatlac]

Matt,

I follow since 6 months your progress. really interesting! I would like to see the overall plan altogether since your layout seems to be divided in two parts. I really appreciate the St-Paul st. station. Was it there in 1957?
What is your operation aim? Is it only shanting in Quebec area? No staging seems restrictive since you won't be able to "send" trains out of town. Anyway, you're doing the best part: making selective compression of the real thing.

Yvan

Thanks Yvan!

I will assemble a layout plan with both part. Yes, St. Paul St. Station was in operation in 1957 (it closed down in March 1959). In it's place, they built the new Central Post Office that is now Telus Building in front of Palace Station.

The aim is to have a good representation of Quebec City operation in the steam era. To my knowledge, nobody in Quebec really tried to model this area who is full of potential. Another aim is to have a good share of QRL&PCo cars in a believable environment. Probably one of the strangest rail oddity that survived through the 50s in Canada. And, for sure, lots of CNR and CPR in their glorious green/gold and grey/maroon scheme.

The track plan varied a lot during the last years and it took us a long time to go back to the harbour original theme. At this point, we are trying to complete the Wolfe's Cove/Bunge Grain Elevator Area. When it will be complete, we will rebuilt the Hedley-Junction and St.Paul St. Station room.

The layout is strictly shunting/switching between Limoilou Yard/Quebec Harbour & Wolfe's Cove throught Sillery. Staging is done with the car drawers under the benchwork. The barge, a stand-in for the real Leonard ferry that existed before Quebec Bridge was completed works as a interchange point for trains from New England, Maritimes and the South Shore. At St. Paul Street, there's another interchange with CPR (Montreal). The last interchange is Limoilou Yard itself, trains there have destination such as Lake St. John and the old Transcontinental National (grain trains from Winnipeg). Do we always follow this strictly? No at all!!! But you're right, someday, we will have to do something about staging. The furnace room dividing the two parts would be the best place... without the furnace!

Matt