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East end Rutherford yard hump diorama 7 years 7 months ago #5532

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I made this diorama of Rutherford Yards east end hump for displaying. The hump office was scratch built using only pictures that I could find. The signal was almost a match for the one used at the hump and is lite up using a hidden battery connection under the display. My goal was to capture the Look of the hump as much as possible. There is a nice picture taken from the bridge in the book Reading Company in color among other photos taken that can be seen on the web. I displayed this at the Modelers meet.

Ron

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East end Rutherford yard hump diorama 7 years 7 months ago #5535

tomjacobs OFFLINE Superintendent Posts: 177 Thank you received: 37	Beautiful!
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East end Rutherford yard hump diorama 7 years 7 months ago #5536

2771-chris OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 634 Thank you received: 94	Outstanding modeling...You really captured the scene,what size is the diorama?
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East end Rutherford yard hump diorama 7 years 7 months ago #5538

rdg5310 OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 265 Thank you received: 39	Thanks Tom and Chris, The diorama is 1 ft x 2 ft long. The base is cut foam insulation and doubled up. Then I had to cut away the drop off down the hump and add height and angle to run around track.
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East end Rutherford yard hump diorama 7 years 7 months ago #5540

RRDavey OFFLINE Engineer Posts: 98 Thank you received: 24	Very nice!!!
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October, 1962

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