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Cool to be here, modeling ARR's APU Spur. Check out the
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Chuck Geiger
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Welcome, Chuck. I have seen your layout elsewhere and like what I see!
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Hi Chuck and welcome aboard! Thanks for sharing your blog! Looking forward to updates.
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Welcome to Big Blue, good to see you.
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Thanks for the feedback. Great idea to model the South side of Anchorage as well.
I was modeling The SD&AE in El Centro in N before moving to Alaska.
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Chuck Geiger Wrote:Thanks for the feedback. Great idea to model the South side of Anchorage as well.
I was modeling The SD&AE in El Centro in N before moving to Alaska.
Chuck.
Your new layout location will require a lot more "greenery" than the San Diego & Arizona Eastern. I had a chance to run a C&NW train on the SD&AE layout in the San Diego Model Railroad Museum, in Balboa Park......not a whole lot of trees there.
hope to see more of your ARR, APU spur, here.
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JWB is this the same: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.alaskarails.org/industries/anchsand.html">http://www.alaskarails.org/industries/anchsand.html</a><!-- m -->
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Chuck, I don't believe so. A check for Alaska Sand & Gravel brings up this on Mapquest <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.mapquest.com/maps?cat=Sand%20%26%20Gravel&city=Anchorage&state=AK">http://www.mapquest.com/maps?cat=Sand%2 ... e&state=AK</a><!-- m --> which would put it pretty much where I think I saw it, south of the Anchorage airport. There's also this map on the Alaska Rails page <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.alaskarails.org/maps/S-Anchorage-2008.jpg">http://www.alaskarails.org/maps/S-Anchorage-2008.jpg</a><!-- m --> where what I shot I believe (though obviously not 100%) corresponds to "AS&G Cement Spur". It doesn't help that there's both an Alaska Sand & Gravel and an Anchorage Sand & Gravel that both call themselves AS&G!
But I think you can see from the track schematic that there's just as much interest in the South Anchorage trackage as the APU Spur.