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Track Plans and Scenes: Coal Mines
The drawings in this booklet are taken from a collection of over 20,000 small sized drawings from the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Chief Engineer’s Office. These drawings used the prefix “X” in their numbering to indicate that they were of small (roughly 8-1I2xll) size. Drawings oUhis size lend themselves to easy reproduction in publications.
We have selected a number of these drawings which we hope the beginning or experienced modeler can use as inspiration for development of a small-scene module or for use as part of a larger model layout. Because these drawings were prepared for a single purpose, they alsmot always concentrate on a relatively small area, thus encapsulating the major elements for the modeler’s use in a constricted space. These “real life” illustrations show the modeler how structures, track, and facilities were arranged on the actual railway
and can lead to an exact replication in model, or can serve as an example of how things can be arranged appropriate to prototypical operation.
The drawings are grouped according to subject in this booklet, showing: Coal Company Scenes and Sidinas, Miscellaneous Interestin& Scenes. and End-or-line scenes, so that the modeler can find scenes to suit his/her need.
These drawings are full of detailed data. Don’t just look at the data block; the drawing may have been prepared for laying a sewer, but it might show the complete detailed layout of an engine terminal. Going through the tens of thousands of drawings not just in the “X-series” but in the many others that the C&OHS collection consists of, one tends to notice trends in each of the locations. Stations (depots if you
. prefer) are often surrounded by a coal house, privy, platform, or perhaps a motor-car set-off. If one sees a section foreman’s dwelling house on a drawing, more often than not, there is also a section tool house, section laborer’s bunk house, privy, and a coal house close by. Not all structures are always labeled, but they are fairly readily discernable after a little practice in looking at the drawings.
Legend for drawings in this packet:
IND = Industry
T. T. = Turntable
Coal Ho. or Coal Hse. – Standard C&O coal storage structure (Usually located near station or tower, but not
always labeled.)
1 SF Dwg – 1 story frame dwelling
2 SF Dwg – 2 story frame dwelling
2 St. Brick = 2 story brick bldg.
PL = Property line
CL = Centerline (also )
W. B. ML – Westbound Main Line
E. B. ML = Eastbound Main Line
Team track = Track at stations where freight cars were parked for consignees to remove their own freight ( for
use by customers who didn’t have their own sidings, but received car-load freight).
WT = Water Tank
– – – – = C&O Right of Way
49 pgs.
Track Plans and Scenes: Coal Mines
The drawings in this booklet are taken from a collection of over 20,000 small sized drawings from the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Chief Engineer’s Office. These drawings used the prefix “X” in their numbering to indicate that they were of small (roughly 8-1I2xll) size. Drawings oUhis size lend themselves to easy reproduction in publications.
We have selected a number of these drawings which we hope the beginning or experienced modeler can use as inspiration for development of a small-scene module or for use as part of a larger model layout. Because these drawings were prepared for a single purpose, they alsmot always concentrate on a relatively small area, thus encapsulating the major elements for the modeler’s use in a constricted space. These “real life” illustrations show the modeler how structures, track, and facilities were arranged on the actual railway
and can lead to an exact replication in model, or can serve as an example of how things can be arranged appropriate to prototypical operation.
The drawings are grouped according to subject in this booklet, showing: Coal Company Scenes and Sidinas, Miscellaneous Interestin& Scenes. and End-or-line scenes, so that the modeler can find scenes to suit his/her need.
These drawings are full of detailed data. Don’t just look at the data block; the drawing may have been prepared for laying a sewer, but it might show the complete detailed layout of an engine terminal. Going through the tens of thousands of drawings not just in the “X-series” but in the many others that the C&OHS collection consists of, one tends to notice trends in each of the locations. Stations (depots if you
. prefer) are often surrounded by a coal house, privy, platform, or perhaps a motor-car set-off. If one sees a section foreman’s dwelling house on a drawing, more often than not, there is also a section tool house, section laborer’s bunk house, privy, and a coal house close by. Not all structures are always labeled, but they are fairly readily discernable after a little practice in looking at the drawings.
Legend for drawings in this packet:
IND = Industry
T. T. = Turntable
Coal Ho. or Coal Hse. – Standard C&O coal storage structure (Usually located near station or tower, but not
always labeled.)
1 SF Dwg – 1 story frame dwelling
2 SF Dwg – 2 story frame dwelling
2 St. Brick = 2 story brick bldg.
PL = Property line
CL = Centerline (also )
W. B. ML – Westbound Main Line
E. B. ML = Eastbound Main Line
Team track = Track at stations where freight cars were parked for consignees to remove their own freight ( for
use by customers who didn’t have their own sidings, but received car-load freight).
WT = Water Tank
– – – – = C&O Right of Way
49 pgs.
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