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S. Berliner, III
Consultant in Ultrasonic Processing "changing materials with high-intensity sound" |
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Technical and Historical Writer, Oral Historian
Popularizer of Science and Technology
Rail, Auto, Air, Ordnance, and Model Enthusiast
Light-weight Linguist, Lay Minister, and Putative Philosopher
- The vast bulk of my massive Web presence (over 485 pages) had
been hosted by AT&T's WorldNet service since 30 May 1996; they dropped WorldNet effective
31 Mar 2010 and I have been scrambling to transfer everything. Everything's saved but
all the links have to be changed, mostly by hand. See my
sbiii.com Transfer Page for any updates on this tedious process.
S. Berliner, III's
sbiii.com
Model Railroad Page
S. Berliner, III's
sbiii.com
Model Railroad Page
Consultant in Ultrasonic Processing
"changing materials with high-intensity sound"
Technical and Historical Writer, Oral Historian
Popularizer of Science and Technology
Rail, Auto, Air, Ordnance, and Model Enthusiast
Light-weight Linguist, Lay Minister, and Putative Philosopher
MODEL RAILROADING
Workers of the world, unite;
NOTE: Page size was limited by HTML to some 30kB; thus, I was forced to add a continuation page
to this page and separate pages to fit the lengthy Berlinerwerke sagas (HO and Z scales).
you have nothing to lose but your
trains!
Model Railroading Miscellany (moved there from this page on 09 May 2005).
Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Railroad
(now on its own page)
Degnon Terminal Railroad, plus
Murrer's Sidings
Kearney Sidings,
as well as (on an LIRR page):
Blissville/Laurel Hill,
Blissville Sidings
Laurel Hill Sidings
and Maspeth and Fresh Pond -
Maspeth Yard
Fresh Pond Yard
Marion River Carry Railroad Page (now on its own page).
LIRR CLass MP41 All-Steel Motorized Electric Passenger Car (1905) Page,
with 1906 text, dimensioned drawings, and photographs.
(08 Feb 2014)
I regret to note the passing of John H. Armstrong, model railroader par excellence, who died on 28 Jul 2004 after a brief illness. John did a lot for me without ever knowing it, especially through his classic 1963 "Track Planning for Realistic Operation", to which I still refer.
Your inclusion on page 61, Fig. 7-4, of a photo of an Erie boxcab working the carfloat terminal on the Harlem River was one of the things that ignited my abiding interest in boxcabs and your O-scale Canandaigua Southern Belpaired 4-6-6-6 Super Allegheny on page 75 helped inspire my subsequent lunacy.
We'll miss you, John.
One John Sing of San Mateo, California, has posted a " eulogy" to John Armstrong, with photos of the CS taken by Clint Hyde of the NMRA Potomac Division; I recommend it to you.
Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society
publishes an outstanding quarterly, THE KEYSTONE
Kalmbach Publications
MODEL RAILROADER
TRAINS
Carstens Publications
RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN
RAILFAN & RAILROAD
RAILPACE Newsmagazine {railroading in the Northeast}
Also, in the vicinity of NYC, there are three of the world's largest model railroads
(excepting my own, of course - all four are in HO scale):
There are/were two truly-fabulous local layouts I have especially enjoyed over these many years,
West Island Model Railroad Club in Farmingdale,
and the
the Montauk Valley Club in Williston Park
(which, unfortunately, had lost its lease - and it's URL!)
each very different in character, yet both quite outstanding.
I seem to have omitted (or lost) a link to the Rockville Centre Model Railroaders, home of the Sheepshead Connecting Lines (sorry 'bout that!).
For information about the many other wonderful clubs and LI model railroading,
visit Richard Einhorn's "Model Railroading on Long Island" site.
Glenn Whitener has a great model railroad index.
Now that I've moved from Long Island's North Shore to Boston's North Shore, in Massachusetts, the big local club is
the North Shore Model Railroad Club, home of the Chesapeake System.
(09 Feb 2011)
The BERLINERWERKE SAGA, the story of the HO Berlinerwerke pike,
is now combined with the story of the Horseshoe Curve on its own separate pages.
[They will have to be separated out again as the layout, unfortunately,
will no longer include a scale Horseshoe Curve.]
The full Z-scale pike story, the BERLINERWERKE-Z SAGA
now appears on its own page, as well, but has had to be continued onto more pages.
Visit these courtesy and official home pages:
Sunrise Trail Chapter,
Boston Chapter, and
NRHS (National Railway Historical Society)
Ztrack Magazine
The Newsletter for Z Scale Model Railroading
Z-Scale is only 1:220 with rails only ¼" apart!
It is about 2½ times smaller than HO!
Please Note: This courtesy home page has been moved to a new Z-Scale page!
Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Railroad
Degnon Terminal Railroad, plus
Murrer's Sidings
Kearney Sidings
Marion River Carry Railroad Page (now on its own page).
Accurail produces among the finest HO and N freight car models, Kalmbach is one of the two top RR publishers, and Jeff gives us an unparalled access to old articles on models and prototypes; I strongly recommend Jeff's great work to you.
Miller Engineering has a site at http://www.microstru.com; if you are not familiar with their line of
jewel-like etched brass structures, a business block, Victorian houses with gingerbread, a bank, a hotel, a movie house, even a stainless '40s diner
and a microscopic telephone booth, be sure to visit the site! For a preview, see the Z-Scale Continuation page.
[Also in HO and N Scales and 1:144 Collector's Scale.]
Image from Z-world
Schnabel Car and Trafo (transformer) Load.
Märklin Z-Scale Depressed Center Flat Car #8620 shown;
(actually, it is NOT a "Depressed Center Flat Car" at all;
in fact, it HAS no center at all, flat or otherwise,
it is a Schnabel Car which separates and bolts to a load)
Schnabel Car (and other giant cars) information grew so dramatically
(with photos) that I moved it (03 Jul 1998) to a separate page.
You may wish to visit the
HUB DIVISION and the
SUNRISE TRAIL DIVISION
both of the
NORTHEAST REGION of the
NATIONAL MODEL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION.
Pennsylvania Railroad Matters
Although I note my extensive coverage on my Pennsylvania Railroad Page, et seq., the total picture gets blurred by inclusion under RR, history, modeling, etc. If you have an interest in things Pennsy, I refer you to my pages noted, to the sites linked thereon, and especially to the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society.
One of the firms that I depended on heavily for Pennsy details was Don Stromberg's Cary Locomotive Works; although they also made boilers and other details for other roads,
they specialized in the Pennsy and I have some Cary nostalgia on my PRR pages, notably on PRR Continuation Page 0. Cary is now a part of
Bowser Mfg., although Bowser has discontinued both its own and Cary's steam loco kits.
(28 Jan 2014)
To which I must now add the New York & Atlantic Railway about which more will follow.
North Shore (Long Island AND Boston) Hobby Shops - I recommend several local (for me when on Long Island's North Shore in northern Nassau County, New York and now on Boston's Nortn Shore) hobby shops
I patronise(d), all of which have given me outstanding service:
(22 Mar 2015)
Willis Hobbies in Mineola, 516-746-3944 (press 1) - I bought my first HO engine (a new Ken Kidder brass convertible tank engine for $7.50!) and an MRC power pack (both still in use) ca. 1960 from the late Karl Boehringer, founder, and have continued with Willis through Karl's successor, Al Ford, and now Al's sons, Steve and Ken! (now with their own Web site)
Gold Coast Hobby, at the Glen Head station, 516-759-4094; owner Charles Gonder has an incredible stock of abstruse items I found useful in model railroading, such as architectural, racing, and ship modeling supplies.
There is also Joel and Barbara Berse's Trainville Hobby Depot at 3703 Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown (LI, NY, that is), 516-433-4444 (FAX 516-433-1691); their forté is N-Scale but they order and stock regularly from Micro-Trains Line, so they can serve Z as well. The store doubled in size since opening and moved from Hicksville to Levittown {as of Aug 2008}.
Hans Nagengast, Jr., runs a combination hardware store and hobby shop in Ridgewood, Queens, that has a goodly stock of Märklin rolling stock and track; while not expert in all aspects of Z, they discount Märklin at 30%! Convenient to the M train for Manhattanites and other NYC dwellers and accessible to those willing to brave the parking situation in darkest Queens (30 miles from Westbury): Hobbies 'R 'Us, in Nagengast's Tru-Value Hardware at 68-02 Fresh Pond Road, Ridgewood, New York 11385, Phone. 718-821-1319, FAX 718-386-2910. They are a ½-block south of the elevated Fresh Pond Road stop on the southwest corner of 68th Avenue and a few blocks north of the LIRR's Bay Ridge branch, off Jackie Robinson (ex-Interboro) Parkway for LI'ers, between Myrtle and Metropolitan Avenues, with limited parking on the south side of 68th Avenue in front of three garages just to their west.
Here on the North Shore of the Boston, Massachusetts area, the only big shops I've found so far are Charles Ro at 662 Cross Street in
Malden (781-321-0090) and North East Trains at 18 Main Street in Peabody (978-532-1615).
(07 Dec 2016)
[Gerry at Maine Trains in Chelmsford has retired and closed his store.]
(07 Dec 2016)
All of these shops are strong in mail orders (with discounts).
[The Caboose, Inc., in Huntington closed effective 15 Dec 2002; I bought my first Märklin mini-Club Z-scale equipment (an 8907A starter set listing for $99.50!, less its awful 6727 power pack) from late owner Charles Schaeffer in 1980.]
Dave's Custom Trains, at 845-758-5341*, e-mail: Dave@daves-custom-trains.com;
Dave builds, paints, and super details model trains of all scales and carries railroad supplies, such as unfinished kits, decals, wheels, couplers, detail parts, etc.
His paintwork is a joy to behold!
(20 Mar 2015 - * new tel. no.)
I am quite the BOXCAB fan(atic), witness my enormous coverage of boxcabs on this site; here's a GE 23-ton gem in O-scale, with a companion GE end cab (and a Mack Railcar in O):
Don't hold your breath, but rumor hath it that we might just see a Porter 22½-ton boxcab next and they've added a six-cylinder diesel engine:
Here's two more photos of the 23-ton end-cab:
Model Railroading Museum - on Long Island!
Also on Long Island, there are active HOTrack and Ntrak modular layout groups.
The HUB Division of the Northeastern Region (NER) of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) runs a major modular HO railroad.
You may wish to visit the Model Railroad Continuation Page 2, et seq.
of this series of Railroad pages.
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