NEB&W Guide to Summit, VT

Last Update: 2009-08-05

Layout Photo Gallery Table of Contents

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The Long Cut

• The "long cut" c. 1800's, from Jim Shaughnessy's The Rutland Road.
  • [Prototype photo.]

• In the 19th century, there was a covered bridge crossing over the tracks.
  • [Postcard c. 1906.]
  • [Another view.]
  • [And another. (Bottom of the covered bridge is just visible at the top of the photo.)]

• The long cut was featured on the cover of Bob Nimke's Green Mountain Railroad book. (Photo was probably taken in June. In the winter, there is more ice!)
  • [Book Cover.]

• I took this photo during a fan trip in 1980.
  • [My photo c. 1980.]

• The "long" cut (greatly condensed) on the layout.
  • [Model view.]
  • [Longer view.]
  • [Train time.]

The Terrain

• The prototype photo, taken from a Green Mountain RR fantrip, was the inspiration for the model scene. Note the flatness of the terrain, the row of modest pine trees and the "summit weed" bushes in the field.
  • [Prototype view c. 1980. THE photo we used as a reference for modeling this.]
  • [A pair of Green Mt. engines pass through the scene.]
  • [And on they go.]
  • [Photo, fall of 2002.]
  • [Photo, fall of 2002.]
  • [Green Mt. train rumbles through, fall of 2002. (Never, NEVER, in my years of "chasing" the Rutland would I ever have thought I'd live to see the day when a trio of mightly locos would be needed to handle the traffic.)]

• Our HO scale recreation.
  • [Model view.]

Summit Depot

• The station was around the bend from the field that we copied. There was a wye located up here so that helpers could be turned and sent back light.
  • [Double-headed Rutland train reaches the top of the grade. Photo courtesy Bob Nimke. (Note the low water column we should include in our model, and the track going off to the right as part of the wye, which we don't have room to model.)]

• This was a fantrip recorded on film by Gerrit Bruins, probably mid-'60's. (Attack of the killer bees - or just gunk on the slide that won't come off?)
  • [Prototype view.]

• The station in winter, c. 1972. The stick in the photo was used to scale the building in order to model it.
  • [Prototype photo. Greg Whittle holds up the club's scaling stick.]

• Valuation notes.
  • [Val. notes courtesy Bob Nimke.]
  • [Val. notes, cross section, courtesy Bob Nimke.]

Our Model

• Looking across the tracks in early spring. Notice the mirror on the model view.
  • [Prototype view.]
  • [Model view.]

• NEB&W No. 424, a 2-8-0, hauls a local way freight around the curve on our layout. Photo by Kyle Williams.
  • [Model view.]

See our Layout Guide for Summit.

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