Bridgeport, harbor -1888

Bill Pontin

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The Valley NTrak has a member who is constructing a new module. I posted earlier pictures of his initial layout under the "Valley NTrak corner modules" thread. Took pictures of Richard's progress today. . . just amazing, thought it would be of interest to everyone. He is modeling Bridgeport harbor during the year 1888.
 

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Bill Pontin

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Working from library books and pictures. like the one above, he is making progress
 

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Bill Pontin

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He chose 1888 because that is when the new iron swing bridge over the Pequonnock River was opened
 

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Bill Pontin

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Yup, that is an elephant on the bridge. Seems P.T. Barnum arranged to have it tested with twelve elephants.
 

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Richard is casting up more elephants and wants to depict the entire event on his module. He is starting to detail some of the waterfront. He plans on having a lot of actual animation on his module.
 

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Here he setting up the track ramp for the freight car ferry that ran at that time.
 

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belg

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WOW

That is one great looking module alot of great modeling went into it so far and plenty more to come I'm sure.Definately let us see the progress.
 

Strthoky

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bill,

how do you get the rails to stay in gauge? it must be hand layed then.. man hand laid n scale... hurts my eyes just thinking bout it.. looks awesome..
 
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