Hedley Junction
#61
We decided to update the tunnel entrance. First we thought about an overhead factory walkway, but it wasn't convincing.

The australian-made New England layout inspired me to use a road overpass instead. I bashed a Rix overpass and disguised it into a real bridge that existed in the area back then. Pillars are MDF, the bridge deck and beams are styrene.

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We will build roof vents on the factory to hide the junction between the overpass and the wall.

Matt
Proudly modelling Quebec Railway Light & Power Company since 1997.

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Erie 149th Street Harlem Station http://www.harlem-station.blogspot.com/
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#62
The mountain grew a little bit more over the weekend. The ridge profile isn't definitive yet.

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Matt
Proudly modelling Quebec Railway Light & Power Company since 1997.

Hedley-Junction Club Layout: http://www.hedley-junction.blogspot.com/

Erie 149th Street Harlem Station http://www.harlem-station.blogspot.com/
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#63
Matt,

Very nice work. I enjoy seeing your photos.

Larry
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#64
No pictures, but a few plans.

Friday night, we rebuilt the northern end of Hedley yard. The small radius Peco setrack turnouts ended up a lot of trouble for many locomotives and freight car. Now, it's a pinwheel ladder made of Peco large radius curved turnouts. Very similar to what was done at Bassin Louise yard a few months ago.

Our operation pattern is evolving so the layout must evolve. Lately, it appeared we enjoyed making short local freight trains and doing switching in industrial districts. Reading the last article by Lance Mindheim was interesting because I observed things that happened on the layout but that I didn't fully understood (number and relation between industries).

The new concept will be focussed on different switching districts: The harbour, Giffard Suburb (light industry), the Limoilou Yard and Villeneuve Suburb. We have 4 DCC cabs, one loosely assigned to each district.

It means we have to redesign completely Hedleyville insdustrial switching district. Instead of focussing on CNR trackage, we decided to inspire ourselves with the QRL&PCo part of Hedley-Junction. The Limoilou part is now rendered as Villeneuve and it's double track electrified mainline. Industries are St. Lawrence Cement plant and Brique Citadelle. (Yes, the industries I just build a few weeks ago on the other part of the layout will move there! Reinhard isn't the only one to change is layout spontaneously!). The actual cement plant is very large, but the trackage is insufficient to make it interesting to operate. The new one will be more prototypical and will have its own industrial switcher. Also, Brique Citadelle will now be rail-served. A few of you will be happy because Legrade Meat Packing is coming back stronger than ever before on the layout. This industry is too much versatile to be neglected anymore. Most Limoilou's industries will now serve as backdrop to the yard, making a nice urban setting. Another change is the yard itself. It stay the same, but is becoming the QRL&PCo property. They had a 4 tracks small freight yard interchanging with the large CNR yard at Hedley. How small yard is very similar to it.

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Moving industries leave bare land on the other room. That means the part where I recently added a new highway overpass is now becoming Giffard, a suburb deserved by QRL&PCo. It makes sense because the overpass prototype was Bld Ste-Anne in Giffard. There was a dense industrial core there including Canadian Prefabrication (a woodworking shop), Sico Paints (still there) and J.A. Raymond Sawmill. There will be enough action to make an operator busy there.

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In a modelling perspective, I find the new changes much more interesting. First of all, they are all industries I've seen when I was a kid and that are rooted deeply in my railway memories. Also, most of them are quite typical of the area and will make the layout easily recognizeable to visitors unfamiliar with trains (It's much more interesting for me to model specific locations dear to me than fiddle with generic scenes). Finally, modelling the QRL&PCo industrial district will put in good use the cars I've built so far for this railway and that were often kept in captive service.

Matt
Proudly modelling Quebec Railway Light & Power Company since 1997.

Hedley-Junction Club Layout: http://www.hedley-junction.blogspot.com/

Erie 149th Street Harlem Station http://www.harlem-station.blogspot.com/
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#65
While browsing archives pictures, I found out this amazing view of Quebec City taken from CPR Palace Station Yard in 1930 (few years before the downtown wnet into disrepair and suffered the so called urban renewal which discarded Palace Station for a while).

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I'm thinking about using it as background for the Bassin Louise area of the layout to get the right feel for the place. Most recognizable landmarks are gathered in this picture (Palace Station, Price Building, Chateau Frontenac, Cathedral, Laval University, City Hall and Hotel-Dieu Hospital before it was butchered in 1954). I'm not sure if I'll try to lightling colorize the picture or just give it a bluish hint to give it some depth).

The picture is 8 feet long, 3 feet high. The funny thing is that boxcars in foreground are almost HO scale!

Matt
Proudly modelling Quebec Railway Light & Power Company since 1997.

Hedley-Junction Club Layout: http://www.hedley-junction.blogspot.com/

Erie 149th Street Harlem Station http://www.harlem-station.blogspot.com/
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#66
Matt:
I was only in Quebec City once. Could you identify the buildings, possibly by the bits that stick up, for me? Thanks.
David
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#67
BR60103 Wrote:Matt:
I was only in Quebec City once. Could you identify the buildings, possibly by the bits that stick up, for me? Thanks.

No problem! The picture is taken from Limoilou (former Hedleyville) and looks toward the south. St. Lawrence river is located behind the city.

From left (east) to right (west):

UPPER TOWN

1) Old University Laval: the large building with a central steeple, mansard roof and various frontons. The main campus was moved in the suburb, but the School of Architecture is still in the old 1664 original Seminary. I studied there from 2002 to 2007.

2) Post Office: the dome in the background.

3) Notre-Dame-de-Quebec Cathedral: Chuch with two differend steeples.

4) City Hall: The square tower with a peaked roof

5) Chateau Frontenac: most iconic feature of the City, self-explanatory, your typical Canadian Pacific railway hotel! Thumbsup

6) Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral: the dark steeple is in front of Chateau Frontenac's tower (right side)

7) Price Building: The Art Deco/Chateauesque "skyscrapper"

8) Business School a.k.a. Commercial Academy: The last dome right from Price Building. It moved in the 1960s and became a CEGEP (kind of lousy college system that only exist in Quebec and make you waste a lot of time before university), I went to that institution new campus in early 2000s.

9) Hotel-Dieu Hospital: Just under Chateau Frontenac, it's a chateauesque structure, on its left you can see a white long building, that's the original build (monastery) built in 1690.

LOWER TOWN

10) Palace Station: CPR terminal located under Hotel-Dieu and behind the string of boxcars. At lright you can see the baggage building and the furnace.

As you can see, no wonder the typical canadian Chateauesque style, popular from the 1870s to the late 1930s, originated in Quebec City! Lord Dufferin started this fashion when he salvaged the fortications and rebuilt the gates in a european romantic fashion.

The scenery changed a lot on the lower town. Now there's a highway and an ugly and large government building behind Palace Station. Snapping this shot in 2013 would be worthless because the office building would hide most of the scenery. The Chateauesque part of Hotel-Dieu disappeared in 1954 to make room for a new tower (that prompted officials to protect Old Quebec from this mistake). Business school's dome was toppled in early 1960s to cut maintenance cost when government acquired it Nope . Except that, most old upper town didn't change a lot over the last half-century. The part not shown on the picture at right however suffered a lot of urban renewal in the 1960s, only the Parlement buidling survived in this area.

Matt
Proudly modelling Quebec Railway Light & Power Company since 1997.

Hedley-Junction Club Layout: http://www.hedley-junction.blogspot.com/

Erie 149th Street Harlem Station http://www.harlem-station.blogspot.com/
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#68
I printed a large scale mockup and installed it tonight on the layout.

Now, you know were you are. Next time I print the backdrop, I'll scale it a little bit smaller so that boxcars in the foregroung are the same scale as a HO scale car.

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Old brick warehouses will blend the backdrop together with the layout.

Matt
Proudly modelling Quebec Railway Light & Power Company since 1997.

Hedley-Junction Club Layout: http://www.hedley-junction.blogspot.com/

Erie 149th Street Harlem Station http://www.harlem-station.blogspot.com/
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#69
Wonderful plane - before a very European looking background. Wish you success and many pictures for us all!
Cheers, Bernd

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#70
Thanks Bernhard! That city is a kind of hybrid in the landscape, somewhere between Europe and America.

Thanks to Google Streetview, I was ableto pinpoint the same location. As you can see, most of the panorama was lost.

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Lower left is the government building, lower left is a 80s housing project built on CPR freight yard when Palace station was shutdown for a few years. (I bet my shirt they superficially decontaminated the site back then!!!). In upper town, left to Chateau Frontenac, you can see the new Hotel-Dieu tower.

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Weathered and replaced the backdrop building with one with a more 1880s look.

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Matt
Proudly modelling Quebec Railway Light & Power Company since 1997.

Hedley-Junction Club Layout: http://www.hedley-junction.blogspot.com/

Erie 149th Street Harlem Station http://www.harlem-station.blogspot.com/
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#71
I continued to plaster and started to paint the mountain yesterday.

I used the leopard technic to paint, however, results are so-so. Paint seems to dry to fast before I wash it out. I used American folk acrylic (1:8 paint-water for the color, 1:16 paint-water for the wash). For this reason, I had to retouch a lot of areas, drybrush them and weather them again.

I guess the result will be better when ground cover will hide some less realistic areas.

The styrofoam base is roughly shaped with a knife. In some part, I used a hot iron (and a mask) to sculpt rock face.

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The finish result with a weathered freight train.

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About half the mountain is now plastered and 20% painted. Probably a month worth of work at one evening per week.

Matt
Proudly modelling Quebec Railway Light & Power Company since 1997.

Hedley-Junction Club Layout: http://www.hedley-junction.blogspot.com/

Erie 149th Street Harlem Station http://www.harlem-station.blogspot.com/
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#72
Matt: on paint drying, at our meeting today, one of our older club members said that he uses oil instead of acrylic (on stone buildings) because the ac. dries too fast to be blended.
Thanks for the key to the photo.
David
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#73
BR60103 Wrote:Matt: on paint drying, at our meeting today, one of our older club members said that he uses oil instead of acrylic (on stone buildings) because the ac. dries too fast to be blended.
Thanks for the key to the photo.

Thanks for the input. I habitually work with oil paint for weathering. Didn't thought about giving it a try for scenery. To keep coloration consistent, I'll have to finish the job on this side of the mountain with acrylics. But I'll experiment oil on a less visible part.

Matt
Proudly modelling Quebec Railway Light & Power Company since 1997.

Hedley-Junction Club Layout: http://www.hedley-junction.blogspot.com/

Erie 149th Street Harlem Station http://www.harlem-station.blogspot.com/
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#74
Totally unexpected, but I found a picture of the sawmill located at Giffard. Will be useful when I'll rebuild the area. The shot is taken from the QRL&PCo overpass. Unfortunately, the picture doesn't show the dust bin at right... I'm pretty sure it once was rail-served.

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Matt
Proudly modelling Quebec Railway Light & Power Company since 1997.

Hedley-Junction Club Layout: http://www.hedley-junction.blogspot.com/

Erie 149th Street Harlem Station http://www.harlem-station.blogspot.com/
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#75
One side of the mountain painted.

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It should look like this once completed:

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I did some basic scenery on the marsh:

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And the new Brique Citadelle plant mockup at Villeneuve:

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Matt
Proudly modelling Quebec Railway Light & Power Company since 1997.

Hedley-Junction Club Layout: http://www.hedley-junction.blogspot.com/

Erie 149th Street Harlem Station http://www.harlem-station.blogspot.com/
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