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'The Railroad' |
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THE
NORMANED RAILROAD follows no specific prototype but rather is a composite of railway
scenes, settings and operations observed on many commercial, tourist and
model railroads in the eastern part of the country.
Due to its birth in Connecticut and subsequent growth in Upstate New
York, it may be possible that a visitor could detect a somewhat biased
reflection of those real railroads which were to become the now-defunct
Penn-Central; i.e., the Pennsylvania RR, the New York Central, and
the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. |
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[2] As the mining crew (topside) keeps the coal bins full, the
“ground crew” services NORMANED RR's 4-6-2 Pacific #1246 (a modified
Marx die cast locomotive). A muscular rail workman stacks ties at the
lower right of photo, as an Interstate Truck Lines 18-wheeler speeds
by on the highway in the foreground. |
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However,
since the NORMANED
represents a “what if” connecting line between Monroe County (N.Y.) and the
rest of the continent, you are apt to see locomotives and rolling stock of
many railroads other than those most familiar to Easterners; in fact, trains
from the north side of Lake Ontario occasionally appear carrying freight to
or from Canada using joint trackage rights shared with the NORMANED.
(The management of the NORMANED
RR maintains membership in the
National Model Railroad Assn. and its Niagara Frontier Region, which
includes Central and Western New York State, Northern Pennsylvania, and
Ontario, Canada). |
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A
Canadian National Railway empty refrigerator car waits on a NORMANED
RR interchange track to be picked up and taken home by a returning
freight. |
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All
is serene at the NORMANED RR's pay car parked in a valley by the
mountains as dawn breaks into the early fog on a Friday morning; by
day's end rail workers and crews will be flocking here to gather their
week's wages. |
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Two
Lionel cars which are now obsolete, but for different reasons -- the
abandonment of wood “Bobbers” (and nowadays nearly all caboose cars),
and the cessation by law of tobacco advertising. They await the
possibility of a future request for display as historical artifacts in
some railroad museum. Meanwhile, they gather dust. |
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Since the NORMANED
does attempt to reflect a microcosm of American railroading from the turn of
the 20th
Century to the present, all types of equipment share its tracks - old and
new, early and modern, steam and diesel. Buildings, structures, lineside
equipment and highway vehicles reflect the same time span.- |
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An Amish couple from the "Pennsylvania Dutch country" have found a
comfortable resting place for themselves and their horse and buggy,
near the large Rico Station, as they await the arrival of a train on
the NORMANED
RAILROAD. |
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