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Here's a view of the staging yard. The track curving to the left in the foreground is the Delaware and Hudson to Au Sable Forks (see two photos down). The three tracks to the right are D&H staging. The center track runs through the yard and exits to the back left representing, for now, the W&NY coming from Wilmington, and later, the New York Central from Lake Clear Junction (but that will be a while... possibly a long while). The three tracks on the left are W&NY/NYC staging.
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A little bit of custom work in the staging yard, most notably one of the Wilmington's PS-1 type boxcars. New York, Ontario and Western Railway fans will recognize and hopefully appreciate the herald! (It's two-thirds of the O&W's.) To the right of the W&NY boxcar is a Micro-Trains Southern boxcar on which I've changed the door to the correct eight foot size, see "Door Thing" in the UMTRR section of the website. The Rutland boxcars are stock Atlas product but renumbered.
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An overall shot of the lower Au Sable Forks area. The track curving into the tunnel is the D&H, back to the staging yard. The D&H switches the two spurs in the photo. On the left is Grover's Mill Products, which occassionally receives a car of lumber or ships a boxcar of finished goods. On the right is Interstate Fuel and Oil, which is a fair bit busier. The Wilmington's trackage begins just to the left of the trees in the lower center of the picture. In the background is my kids' HO layout... but that's another story...
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Pulling into the W&NY street trackage in the upper Au Sable Forks area is an NYC RS-3 on loan to the Wlimington with a short cut of cars. There was a prototype for the street running in the real Au Sable Forks, as the D&H ran down the center of Route 9N for a few blocks to reach industries west of town. Sadly, that track was torn up in the 1970's but in my basement the memory lives! In the right foreground of the photo is a Sinclair gas station. Not sure whether far Upstate New York actually had them, but so what? I'm planning to put a number of gas stations on the layout, since I think they're pretty cool, even if they do represent "the competition."
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Just to the west of the previous photo is the continuation of the street trackage, along with some of the structures in the area. The large building in the center right is Miracle Chair Company ("If it's a good chair, it's a Miracle", the name of which is a nod to a backdrop/scenic divider structure article in the January 1971 issue of Model Railroader by master builder Earl Smallshaw. At the foreground is a hardware store and over to the left hard up against the retaining wall is Red's Bar and the local lunch counter (a handily recycled caboose).
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