NEB&W Guide to Red Rocks (Willsboro Bay, NY)

Last Update: 2009-08-03

Layout Photo Gallery Table of Contents

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1. Village was originally founded in 1765 by William Gulliland, and eventually named after him.

2. Topographic maps.
   • [Map c. 1929. (Only one track going down to the pulp mill.)]
   • [Map 1941.]
   • [Map c. 1956.]

3. The cliffs as seen from across the bay.
   • [Photo.]
   • [Closer.]

4. This photo by Jim Shaughnessy was THE view we wished to capture on the layout.
   • [THE view.]
   • [Same photo, much bigger. (This is from a print we've had hanging on the layout wall for years, and the color has faded. I've tried to correct it as best I could.]

5. Same angle half a century earlier as a D&H mail train heads south.
   • [D&H photo.]
6. An NEB&W train heads south.
   • [Model view.]

7. Looking south.
   • [Model view.]

8. The milk train heads north, returning empty cars to the creameries.
   • [Model view.]

9. The "big cliff".
   • [Prototype photo, c. WWI.]
   • [Prototype photo, c. 1970's.]
   • [Looking down, c. 1970's.]
   • [Looking back, c. 1970's.]

10. North end of tunnel.
    • [Prototype photo, c. 1980's, looking north.]
    • [Photo from atop the tunnel, by Jim Shaughnessy. (Grains on the photo are my fault.)]
    • [Prototype photo, courtesy Bob's Photos, looking south.]
    • [Steam days, John Gardner photo, courtesy Jim Shaughnessy's Delaware & Hudson.]
    • [Prototype photo, c. 1980's, close-up of the tunnel.]
    • [Another photo, c. 1980's of the tunnel.]
    • [Layout view.]
    • [Another layout view.]

11. The south end of the tunnel (which is vaguely modeled on our layout at the north end of the scene).
    • [Steam-era view. John Gardner photo, courtesy Jim Shaughnessy's Delaware & Hudson.]
    • [Photo c. 1972.]
    • [Another photo c. 1972.]

12. The tracks skirt the rugged cliffs for about 7 miles. Here is another section that capture the effect, but isn't modeled directly on the layout.
    • [Prototype photo, c. WWI.]

    Willsboro, Not Being Modeled

13. The village of Willsboro was just south of the cliffs.
    • [Depot c. 1970's. It was built in 1876.]
    • [Willsboro Dock & Coal c. 1970's. (I think the depot is behind the building on the right.)]
    • [Bouquet River, I assume down at the base.]
    • [Highway bridge over the Bouquet.]
    • [Looking downstream, from the brige c. 1914.]
    • [Main Street.]
    • [Wolfsenite plant c. 1950's.]
    • [St. Mary's church.]
    • [Bank.]

14. The NY & PA Pulp & Paper Co. had a large plant here, down from the main line. (It closed in the 1960's.)
    • [Topo c. 1941 showing the wood yard.]
    • [D&H straight line schematic c. 1935.]
    • [NY & PA Pulp & Paper c. 1931, which was at the base of the Bouquet River below the falls.]
    • [Similar but not identical view.]
    • [Aerial view c. 1940. Photo from the Paine Memorial Library in Willsboro, courtesy Bridge Line Historical Society.]
    • [View of the office building, c. WWI.]
    • [Loco no. 3, Suzy, in the wood yards c. 1940. Photo from the Paine Memorial Library in Willsboro, courtesy Bridge Line Historical Society.]
    • [Susy in 1952, still in service. Jim Shaughnessy photo.]

See our Layout Guide for Red Rocks (Willsboro Bay).

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