Yes, the bar is most certainly ... open.
Lets hop back in our time machine to Summer of 2015
Re: New York Divsion-Bergen Line
Postby minerman146 » Mon Jul 13, 2015 10:43 pm
NYWhiskey - stay tuned - we gotta go East before we go West again.
I just checked and its 5.05 miles from where our track ends in Highland Mills, NY to the Moodna Viaduct.
If you have the route - were going to relay everything from HIllburn, NY to Highland Mills, super-elevate then take it to Campbell Hall.
Ha! That's right I said 2 years ago I would go to the Moodna and Campbell Hall. Lo and behold, here we are. So, I build Whiskey's bridge and I haven't heared from him yet. Now mind you, this gentlemen did present me with a fine bottle of Jameson's Black, just about a year ago, not 1 mile as the crow flies from the trestle. C'mon Whiskey take a ride and take a picture of the bridge will ya?
Now, I made it a point of making promises and then keeping them. So, I my word can be my bond. And I've been talking about the end of construction for a long time. ( I don't think I really know how to stop) We are definitely going to Campbell Hall. I have some cool stuff planned for that area. So, I have been day dreaming, as I do on my ride home, and I get to envision what I'm a gonna do. I have many houses to put in to finish up the Moonda and environs. That will be the immediate focus.
I finally, after all these years, got hold of a track map that gives me the grades from Harriman to Binghamton (no, I am NOT goin that far). So, I see and I kinda figured out we got a .18 percent down slope from MP 54 to past the station. My bridge is .0, I decided to not dip the end of the Moodna 3 foot, as I was not going to try and tilt those bridge sections. But, were gonna hook you up with as real as possible track gradients for the rest of this run. And I found the Conjob "ZTS" map, which gives me the consignees for this entire area. I see local freight jobs out of Campbell Hall. That's a good thing as I envision this as a freight route. So if you can hang on for the next 9 miles or so of trees, I promise to make Campbell Hall very interesting for you guys.
Time for tonight's build session...