Model Railroading > CB&W open house Sat. 7/26/14 near Yorktown, Va.

Chesapeake Bay & Western (CB&W) Model Railroaders OPEN HOUSE
~~FREE ADMISSION~~
SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2014 -- (1 Day Only) -- 10am to 4pm

Come see the largest HO scale layout in Virginia! We are located in GRAFTON, VIRGINIA, 7 miles south of Yorktown, along Rt. 17, behind the IHOP Restaurant and the Rite Aid pharmacy, at 110-F Dare Rd., Grafton, VA 23692.

A food truck will ALSO be there for those who wish to remain on-site, otherwise there is the IHOP next door, and other eateries just up Rt. 17 in either direction.

INFO:
http://cbw-mrc.com/images/club-events/OH%20Flyer%207-14.pdf

Phone:
757-890-0061

WEBSITE:
http://cbw-mrc.com/

A FEW RECENT PHOTOS from the layout (taken by various club members):
(1) CB&W station -- at night....
(2) LOGS ON THE MOVE, eastbound, one cut at a time....
(3) Gravel and Limestone loads on one track in the yard....



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 07/21/14 10:58 by rbx551985.

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MORE PHOTOS from the Chesapeake Bay & Western Railroad, another primarily COAL-HAULING eastern freelance road:
(4) An eastbound local freight crosses the river near Shennandoah....
(5) Older pic of a CB&W freight with a borrowed Virginia & Atlantic Rwy engine....
(6) A wood yard along the line (one modeled), of several along the CB&W -- seen here with outbound loads ready to go. Timber products of a variety of types are one of CB&W's primary comodities, sceond only to coal, as the mainline passes through primary forests of Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky.

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(7) Looking down at Keezletown, Va. -- view shows various levels of this massive HO Scale layout. When running "normal prototypical speed," a train can take up to an hour to get from either end-point on this line. Only the eastern HALF of the fictional CB&W is modeled.

(8) "ARSENAL" - eastern military base in Hampton Roads, Va. -- just up the line from Langley Yard.
(9) The rear of an NS coal train is seen street-running along the town-front, not long before many of the store fronts were revitalized by the folk who live there.

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Great looking layout, what a yard!
JB

3rdswitch Wrote:
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> Great looking layout, what a yard!
> JB

Thanks. It's been a LONG NUMBER OF YEARS for this to become what it has, thanks to the tireless efforts of more than 50 men and women. Current membership stands at around 50, and there have been MANY others who have come and gone over the years, too, who contributed to what the CB&W has become. There are LOTS of photos of this layout on the official website (linked to above), and here are a few more:

(A) This is a wider angle of "Arsenal" (presumed prototype location: Chesapeake Bay, just north of Ft. Monroe and the I-64 Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel route) showing the submarine anchored at the dock.

(B) A wide variety of equipment is interchanged from lots of other railroads, including (in the background), another CB&W covered hopper for hauling limestone (note the blue band across the top of the car denoting that commodity), a yellow UTAH BELT boxcar, various former Route Rock equipment repainted for the New Virginia Central RR ... and in the foreground cars from Allegheny Midland, Virginian & Ohio, a brown CB&W boxcar, a green "Mississippi Valley" boxcar, and many more freelance roads' equipment out of camera range.

(C) Below "Croaker" (actual Va. town named after the favorite fish locals like to catch in the York River), kids play baseball next to the a business served by the CB&W. The freelance CB&W RR basically runs from Hampton Va. to East St. Louis, semi-parallel to other routes, but with joint-trackage over some at various points along the way -- with the MODELED portion from Hampton Roads to "French Creek," which is the presumed half-way point to E. St. Louis.

IT SHOULD BE NOTED that all eras of railroading run on the layout; not everything is always "modern" era, although when we do run modern, many members like to run 'em LONG like the prototype. We have had many uber-long double stacks, auto rack trains, coal trains, and recently we ran a test train of 144 PULPWOOD cars. That last noted freight had 3 units up front, 2 in the middle, and 2 more on the rear just ahead of 2 cabooses. THAT was a lot of eastbound pulpwood!!



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/21/14 14:35 by rbx551985.

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Somebody REALLY likes log cars.

Thomas G

Go to you tube and search rapidpopeye or enter CB&W for some HD videos of the club layout.

coaltrain45

Splitrock323 Wrote:
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> Somebody REALLY likes log cars.
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> Thomas G

That "somebody" grew up in a Virginia paper mill town where both his parents worked at that mill, and those types of cars arrived by the dozens every day. While the cars in these next 3 photos are not on the CB&W model layout, they did indeed INSPIRE the painter of the models in the 2nd shot, above. These 3 weren't ITC-lime green, or Route Rock-inspired sky-blue, but they WERE all carrying 5-ft. pulpwood logs like those in the model photos here. Their true appearance was thus:

(1) A "HYDRA-RAKE" crane drags 5-ft. pulpwood off SOUTHERN pulpwood cars in West Point, Va., circa 1991.
(2) SOU 142567 shows off its assignment label, including the SAME "C" logo for "Chesapeake Corporation" seen on the end of one of the lime-green cars in the second photo, way up above. This one is LOAD ONLY TO "C" WEST POINT, VA." -- the only known example of a private company's logo being applied to a Southern Railway car.

(3) An empty SOU 141629, photo taken by John Whitmore, shows the "V-deck" of one of these cars. Downtown Richmond, Virginia's C&O viaduct is in the background along "Tobacco Row."



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/22/14 12:17 by rbx551985.

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