NMRA Achievement Program Yahoo Group

NMRA Achievement Program Yahoo Group is a new way to find information, guidance and the sometime necessary kick-in-the-pants to help you earn your Achievement Program Certificates and become a MASTER MODEL RAILROADER.

If you are an NMRA member and would like to join, just go here…

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NMRAAP/

I’m Scott Perry, long time Yahoo Group host and found of several groups such as…

Traintools

Trainbooks

HOGRR

And others!

So come join the fun, make new friends and make a plan to Achieve!

Scott Perry

http://modelrailroadersnotebook.blogspot.com/

The Georgia Northeastern Railfan Store

I forgot about this!  I built a Cafepress store for the GNRR Railfan Group!

http://www.cafepress.com/gnrr

You can still buy GNRR stuff on line!

Favorite GNRR Shots

 

Maybe not the best shot in the world, but I was inside the shop hanging out with the crew and you were somewhere else!  Click on photo to enlarge.  I'll build a model of this one day.

The Blue Ridge smokin' into town.

Tunnels of Trees near Holly Springs

Parked to rest for the night, right on the main line.

This is a NARROW GAUGE caboose from the original railroad, the Marietta & Knoxville.  It is inside the marble pits and serves as the office.  That is not snow on the ground, it's calcium carbonate.

White marble is everywhere, so might as well make a nice bridge out of it.  This is in Canton, GA.

My all time favorite!  Hanging out in the kudzu after a long, hot day.

The Turnip Town Trestle.  The longest and highest in Georgia, and it is curved.

This was my Christmas shot in the GNRR calender published many years ago.

Long shadows at the Tate depot.

Hard working Geep's...a bit long in the tooth.

Airplane Time

While Delta holds me captive for hours on end refusing to give me more than 24 peanuts at a time, I invest the time in designing layouts.  My trip to Detroit (snow) and back gave me 3 hours of total thought time, minus a small argument with a bone head behind me that was playing his stereo too loud.

My big question for Jackson's layout is "can I get it all in and if I can't what gets dropped?"  Big question.  There are a lot of good features on the layout.  One thing to consider is a good mix of traffic.  There are a ton of industries that take tank cars so you don't want to be just tank cars running around.  The Nelson Marble Cutting operation is back up and running.   It doesn't take rail cars, but it is so cool to see the train run right through the middle of a business with all that white dust and stone.

I'm getting a good trackplan in my head now, but need to finish the drawing of the room and check it out.  I NEVER start drawing without the dimensions being thoroughly checked.  But we'll start soon.

More Dimensions

Over about three or four phone calls tonight I've gotten all the dimensions that I need for the layout.  I'll start finalizing these this week and produce a drawing.  Then I'll buzz over to I.D.'s house and we'll check them together.

ALWAYS CHECK THE DIMENSIONS

Even the best people with the best measuring tools make mistakes measuring a room.  I've made mistakes.  Use two people, make the drawing and use different people to check it.  I'll carry a buddy with me.

Then we can draw!

Towns on the GNRR

Towns on the GNRR from South to North

Elizabeth (Interchange with CSX)
Marietta
Blackwell
Woodstock
Lebanon
Holly Springs
Canton
Kentsburg
Ball Ground
Nelson
Tate (Yard and Loco Servicing
Jasper
Talking Rock
Whitestone
Ellijay
East Ellijay
Cherry Log
Blue Ridge
Murphy Junction
McCaysville
Copper Hill

What did I miss????

Map of the Georgia Northeastern