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Working the float bridge, the log camp, and more

By Steven Otte | September 5, 2022

A gallery of inspirational model railroad images from the October 2022 Trackside Photos

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Model Railroader’s October 2022 Trackside Photos

A black-and-red diesel switcher uses a flatcar to reach across a float bridge and pull cars from a rail barge
A narrow gauge geared steam locomotive heads toward the viewer through a logging camp with a pulpwood car in tow
A small, black geared steam locomotive pulls a green wooden coach across a street bustling with pedestrians and horse-drawn wagons
Seated figures are seen through the open door of a dark red heavyweight baggage-coach
A silver Galloping Goose railcar rolls on the main line while behind it a black steam engine approaches a station
A small, old-fashioned 4-2-0 steam locomotive with a green tender pulls a wooden coach past a livery yard with horses
A black-and-red diesel switcher uses a flatcar to reach across a float bridge and pull cars from a rail barge
A narrow gauge geared steam locomotive heads toward the viewer through a logging camp with a pulpwood car in tow
A small, black geared steam locomotive pulls a green wooden coach across a street bustling with pedestrians and horse-drawn wagons
Seated figures are seen through the open door of a dark red heavyweight baggage-coach
A silver Galloping Goose railcar rolls on the main line while behind it a black steam engine approaches a station
A small, old-fashioned 4-2-0 steam locomotive with a green tender pulls a wooden coach past a livery yard with horses

Long Island Rail Road Alco S-2 No. 420 uses a reach car to pull cars from the car float docked at the Eastport float bridge. John Ciesla photographed the scene on his HO scale Eastport Branch modular layout, which was featured in the November 2021 Model Railroader. The float bridge was scratchbuilt from scavenged spare parts from old structure kits and styrene Micro Engineering girders. The barge is made from a length of 1 x 4 lumber. The locomotive is an older Atlas model.

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Trackside Photos is a showcase for the work of Model Railroader readers. Send your photos (digital images 5 megapixels or larger) to: Model Railroader, Trackside Photos, P.O. Box 1612, Waukesha, WI 53187-1612; or upload them to fileupload.kalmbach.com/contribute. For our photo submission guidelines, contact senior associate editor Steven Otte at  sotte@kalmbach.com.

 

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