McKinley branch: the Cookie Route

[goddrauG]

Yes, you read that title right. Yes, the main industry mass produces cookies. No, I have not gone mad.
While in Florida on vacation, my brother carefully cut a cookie like a lemon wedge with a little cut at the edge, then put it on the side a Martini glass full of milk. We joked about making a company based on producing cookies that you could fit on the side of your drink like a lemon wedge.
Well, guess what. One thing led to another and now I'm making a shortline in the north country of NH that is owned and operated by the cookie plant.
This isn't anything special, just something to get me in the route building mood when I get back from Florida. I still have the NEGS to make.

[goddrauG]

The former owner of the branch plies along the bridge over Johnsburg stream, a branch off of the Connecticut river, with two empty hoppers and a loaded boxcar.

[RickKfoury]

Looking good!

[Chacal]

And the railroad personnel will all be girl scouts.

[goddrauG]

And the railroad personnel will all be girl scouts.

And the workers at the factory shall be Old Grandmothers.

[buzz456]

[goddrauG]

Here's the same train from the first picture, in the town of McKinley. If you strain your eyes, you can just barely see the cookie plant in the background.

[goddrauG]

Here is the actual plant, Duffy Cookies Co.
The right track ships out the finished product, since trucking it to supermarket distribution centers is too expensive, since we're way too far up north.
(The Canadian border is three miles north of the end of the line.)
The middle track is for bringing in High Fructose Corn Syrup via tank cars.
And the left track is for hoppers of Sugar.

[goddrauG]

Fallton gravel spur in the 70's...

And today.

[JM1261]

Excellent work!

[NStrains]

Looks like a tight squeeze!

[goddrauG]

Indeed it was. Sadly, my route has it as abandoned, but you can reconnect it to the line if you want!

Last pic before I finish working on this route for the day.
During my favorite season:

Newford Lumber, the second industry on the line, in the early 80's.

[goddrauG]

I've decided that this route will not only be the branch, but quite a bit of the Mainline that connects to it as well. Only a little, though. Both sides of the mainline will end only about 5 miles away from the interchange yard.
A problem with this is we have no locomotives of the railroad that interchanges with the shortline, which I'm naming the West Hallsbury Railroad (Interchange yard and facilities are in a town called Hallsbury.)

On that note, anybody willing to do a St. Lawrence and Atlantic locomotive?

[RickKfoury]

On that note, anybody willing to do a St. Lawrence and Atlantic locomotive?

I could attempt a repaint of the Portland Terminal GP-40

[goddrauG]

Sounds good!
Back to the route, here's some shots of "Downtown" McKinley.