NEB&W Guide to Cohoes, NY - On The Layout

Last Update: 2009-06-05

Cohoes Table of Contents
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• Originally I wrote this section back when there was little finished in this section of the layout, so this was an overall look at the scene. As progress advances and each component is discussed in turn, not sure if this section is useful, but here it is anyway.

• For a long time, our model was just up to the mock-up stage. A number of the mockups were covered with a picture of the intended prototype. A couple of Walthers freight house kits now have been kitbashed as a stand-in model for the 1914 building. A Walthers waterfront building is being used as a typical large Cohoes mill to cover the hole through the backdrop on the far right, even though Star Woolen Mills didn't have anything this high.
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  • [Model view - with Rutland yard in the foreground across the aisle.]
  • [Model view c. Jan. '04, with the freight house and Hope Knitting Mill kitbashes underway.]
    
  • [Model view c. Jan. '04, close-up of the Hope Knitting Mill progress.]
  • [Model view c. Oct. '04, of the Hope Knitting Mill kitbash progress.]
  • [Another view c. Oct. '04.]
  • [And another c. Oct. '04.]
  • [And another by Tom Amrine c. Oct. '04.]
  • [Star Woolen Mills, Oct. 2004. Will Gill started kitbashing a Walthers factory as a stand-in for this building.]
  • [Long view by Tom Amrine c. Oct. '04. (The Sage Valley boxworks was being used to prop up a mock-up wall of St. John's rectory.)]
  • [St. Bernard's Keveny Academy c. Oct. 2004. We are starting with the Walthers modern roundhouse as a stand-in kitbash.]
  • [Keveny Academy c. Nov. 2004. Walls painted orange and over-coated with "Bambi Brown".]
  • [Keveny Academy c. Nov. 2004. Another view.]
  • [Star Woolen Mills, Nov. 2004.]
  • [Another view.]
  • [Another view, a few weeks later. Will has painted the foundation and added most of the windows. A triangular section of brick was added for a gable at each end.]
  • [Leggett & Sons, kitbashed from the Walthers sugar factory again, Nov. 2004. (Note a close match, but a temporary space filler for now.)]

• The depot is being kitbashed from the Walthers City Station.
  • [Model being kitbashed, Jan. '06. (Brown colored brick sections are additions.)]
  • [Model being kitbashed, Jan. '06. The subroof is made of plain styrene.]

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