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Alexander,
Somehow I seem to have missed this thread !
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That is an excellent Bascule lift bridge !
Model Railroader once ran an article, with scale drawings of that bridge. Walthers must have used the same information for their HO kit. The N scale kit is the same.
In the part of the world where I grew up, a "Boat Yard", is a place where boats are brought ashore for maintenance, or Winter storage, and usually have a "marine railway" (
about a six foot gauge, with a single steel ' truck ' that the boats, in custom fit cradles, are hauled out, and re-launched on ).
When I built my "new modules", I had a tough time choosing between a 'Seaport Village and Museum', or a 'boat yard', like the one, at the end of the street the house was on .
The museum won.
Pete
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Hi Alex, just looking if there is any update on this layout. Have been looking out for news for a while. Hope everything is still going OK.
Cheers
Armin
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Hi Armin,
next year I'm building more...Fat City Boat Yard is next year on the German US-Convention...
Alexander
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OOOhhh that is shiny!
I do like that water, it seems to be the same suspciously green/brown water that I find around the Arthur Kill and other waterways in the New York City / New Jersey area.
I'm guessing from the Conrail, Lehigh Valley and D&H, that you might be going for just such a location.
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Hello,
It went further...
Road Bridge, Quay wall
![[Image: boatmaerz1302.JPG]](http://www.frankenmodell.de/boatmaerz1302.JPG)
![[Image: boatmaerz1303.JPG]](http://www.frankenmodell.de/boatmaerz1303.JPG)
![[Image: boatmaerz1301.JPG]](http://www.frankenmodell.de/boatmaerz1301.JPG)
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Good to see you are still working on this !
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Looks very good, Alexander! Wish you more time for further progress!
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That bridge is very effective! LOVE the carfloat!!!!!
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Hello,
"Fat City Boat Yard" goes "Harbor Street Yard" from Eastcoast to Westcoast...
The Boat Yard is finished...
Last Weekend I was on the 4. US Convention in Rodgau Germany with my Harbor Street Yard and my friends
with Fremo Modules "Rails around the Bay"
![[Image: boatokt1305.JPG]](http://www.frankenmodell.de/boatokt1305.JPG)
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![[Image: boatokt1307.JPG]](http://www.frankenmodell.de/boatokt1307.JPG)
![[Image: boatokt1309.JPG]](http://www.frankenmodell.de/boatokt1309.JPG)
![[Image: boatokt1310.JPG]](http://www.frankenmodell.de/boatokt1310.JPG)
![[Image: boatokt1315.JPG]](http://www.frankenmodell.de/boatokt1315.JPG)
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![[Image: boatokt1319.JPG]](http://www.frankenmodell.de/boatokt1319.JPG)
![[Image: boatokt1325.JPG]](http://www.frankenmodell.de/boatokt1325.JPG)
![[Image: boatokt1326.JPG]](http://www.frankenmodell.de/boatokt1326.JPG)
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and pictures fom the other Modules from Rails around the Bay
http://teamtrack.xooit.com/t1187-Rails-a...he-Bay.htm
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NICE!!! Thanks for another look!
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Alexander, great and layout and very good modeling!
Thanks for sharing!
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Very nice modeling!
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Beautiful..!! What is the setting supposed to be..?? It's got a tropical flavor to it...
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Steamtrains Wrote:Beautiful..!! What is the setting supposed to be..?? It's got a tropical flavor to it...
San Francisco Bay around 1980...
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Hi Alex,
nothin new since Nieder-Roden?
Can't believe that!
Hope, everything is well with you and your layout(s)…
Best greetings
HOLLA
