NEB&W Guide to Our Model Yard at North Bennington

Last Update: 2009-06-12

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• The yardmaster's tower was modeled after the D&H's one at Mohawk yard, just outside Schenectady, NY.
  • [Prototype photo, c. 1931, from our NEB&W D&H Collection. Note the detail, such as the outhouse, the sort of garden area just beyond the tower, the parked cars, etc.]
  • [Prototype photo looking from the other side, c. 1931, from our NEB&W D&H Collection. Check out the use of white stones to mark the grass area.]
  • [Prototype photo, c. 1950 by Jim Shaughnessy.]
  • [On the layout, NEB&W switcher 106 pauses for instructions from the yardmaster. The yardmaster's office was scratchbuilt by Geoff Hubbs. No. 106 was kitbashed from a brass NYC switcher by Kyle Williams. Lou Sassi took the photo.]

• Looking east at the Whitehall yard, the terrain is very flat, almost like a sea of grass of islands of trees.
  • [Photo c. 1980's. (Sorry for the white spots on the print.)]
  • [Photo c. 1980's.]
  • [North Bennington landscape, 1990's. This is similar except the grass is mown.]
  • [Model view.]

• Yard looking north, photo by Mike Matula.
  • [Model view.]

• Same view at track level.
  • [Model view.]

• Another view of the yard, with lots of computer magic to enhance it.
  • [Photo by James Lauser.]

See our Layout Guide for North Bennington.

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