East Terminal & Newburgh

[Schraddel]

A first oversight over the railroads in historic Cleveland/OH will give these maps:
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They show only the railroads. Not shown are the most of the industrial spurs, the streetcar lines and the interurban lines.

At least 11 railroads were active in Cleveland:
New York Central RR
Pennsylvania RR
Baltimore & Ohio RR
Erie RR
Nickel Plate
Big Four (CCC & StL RR)
Wheeling & Lake Erie RR
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie RR
Cleveland Short Lines (NYC subsidiary)
Newburg & South Shore RR
River Terminal RR
Cuyahoga Valley RR


Here are some detail maps:
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Only a few maps of many which i found in the www.

And further with my small, small piece of Cleveland Flats.


One of my first purchases was this Walthers backgound building kit.
Some friends tolld me to avoid paralelling tracks to the front edge of the layout. Then the layout became easy a somewhat boring look.
So i decided to lay the tracks in an angle to the front edge.
But angled laid tracks will lead to angled strutures or angled cut away portions of them. So i made this out of the Walthers kit. The trains should appear and disappear behing this structure.
Two 40' boxcars and an 50' boxcar and an rather modern truck show the clearances an appearance.


A second look from an other angle. Still missing a backside structure on the oter side of the main (3rd track from left)


Meanwhile i saw in French forum photos of the Los Angeles industrial district. One picture shows the backside of an storage building in front of it a single spur and then another building. A real brick canyon, a huge brick wall without any structural aspects, only bricks to seen.
Here i made a background building out of cardboard an brick srutural walls. In addition there will be a capacity of three 40' cars which could disappear into it.
Meanwihle the modern truck was exchanged by an more period truck also.
The impression of an urban canyon became closer too.


The gate of this storage building with internal loading dock has to be moveable. Here the is the bashed drive, the wires are still missing.
Everythig here is a recyled item. The micro switches will stop the movemet of the gate in open or closed position.

Lutz