News Item: : Muskegon Railroad Historical Society Board approves N-Scale Layout
(Category: News & Events)
Posted by gtmark
Tuesday 05 July 2011 - 18:00:26
In a unanimous vote, the Board of Directors overwhelmingly approved the proposal bought forward by N Scale chairman Mark Kelley. The board had many questions in their deliberations but in the end came together to make the approval for the members of the N Scale group to move forward in the tear down and then re-build of a more updated representation of Muskegon Michigan area rail traffic in N Scale
Members will pay $100.00/year or $10.00/month surcharge to be a participating member of the N Scale group. This surcharge and any monies from the sale of N Scale donations or existing N Scale equipment not pertinant to the time period being modeled will go to fund the new layout.
The N Scale group has chosen to model the Grand Trunk Railroad from Muskegon to Grand Rapids, via Revenna and Conklin then down through Penn Junction.
The layout will be double decked around the perimeter of the layout room, Control system will be DCC (Digitrax).
12/15/12 - New bench work construction continues. All usable track that has been taken off the exisitng layout has been cleaned and prepped for track laying to begin on the new layout.
2/05/13- Track work has started on the new N-Scale layout and bench work will continue just as soon as the rest of the old layout is removed. Track, buildings and all other usable items have been removed. Benchwork will be done soon.
3/15/13 - Old layout has been dismantled, New benchwork construction continues.
3/19/13 - Henry Street Yard tracks are in place on the layout.
4/10/13 - Power drops from the tracks in Henry St. Yard are being installed. The Railroad Car Ferry dock area of the layout is being formed and built up.
This news item is from Muskegon Railroad Historical Society
( http://www.mrhs-online.org/news.php?extend.32 )
(Category: News & Events)
Posted by gtmark
Tuesday 05 July 2011 - 18:00:26
In a unanimous vote, the Board of Directors overwhelmingly approved the proposal bought forward by N Scale chairman Mark Kelley. The board had many questions in their deliberations but in the end came together to make the approval for the members of the N Scale group to move forward in the tear down and then re-build of a more updated representation of Muskegon Michigan area rail traffic in N Scale
Members will pay $100.00/year or $10.00/month surcharge to be a participating member of the N Scale group. This surcharge and any monies from the sale of N Scale donations or existing N Scale equipment not pertinant to the time period being modeled will go to fund the new layout.
The N Scale group has chosen to model the Grand Trunk Railroad from Muskegon to Grand Rapids, via Revenna and Conklin then down through Penn Junction.
The layout will be double decked around the perimeter of the layout room, Control system will be DCC (Digitrax).
12/15/12 - New bench work construction continues. All usable track that has been taken off the exisitng layout has been cleaned and prepped for track laying to begin on the new layout.
2/05/13- Track work has started on the new N-Scale layout and bench work will continue just as soon as the rest of the old layout is removed. Track, buildings and all other usable items have been removed. Benchwork will be done soon.
3/15/13 - Old layout has been dismantled, New benchwork construction continues.
3/19/13 - Henry Street Yard tracks are in place on the layout.
4/10/13 - Power drops from the tracks in Henry St. Yard are being installed. The Railroad Car Ferry dock area of the layout is being formed and built up.
This news item is from Muskegon Railroad Historical Society
( http://www.mrhs-online.org/news.php?extend.32 )