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West Virginia Northern Railroad
in N scale by Mark Stephens. also see my old Working on the Railroad planning page, and the old WVN HO plan. |
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A small coal hauling short line over steep grades and very sharp curves, a perfect railroad for my small basement.
Let's start with photos of the railroad: on June 23rd, 2002 I went to the WVN to take photos before the
rails were ripped up. 12 hours of driving to take 3 hours worth of pictures!
I haven't added captions to the photos yet, but they start in Tunnelton, make there way around the Marion curve, the Marion siding, the Jessup curve area, the Howesville siding and station, past the Birds Creek branch, the Pioneer siding and abandoned loader, and up to the switchbacks. All these photos were taken with an Olympus d490Z digital camera in SHQ mode. Below is a profile map of the WVN. Thanks to Matt Adams for scanning it. |
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click for the complete map. |
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Matt Reese wrote a detailed article on the WVN that includes annotated topo maps, and the names of the mines as they existed in 1985. You can see the some of the mine names differ from the drainage map names. I've decided to use Matt's names, though I have no idea what set of names is correct. I suspect they both are, but represent a different time. Below is my N scale plan. I have compressed out the railroad between the Marion siding and Howesville siding. The area above Howesville, on the other hand, is included pretty much as is, with the Birds Creek branch serving as a connection to provide continuous running. I needed to keep both the Marion and Howesville sidings to preserve operation detail. Empty trains were backed down to Marion from the interchange, then (I believe) carried power first from Marion up to Howesville, with the siding used as a small yard to switch the mines above Howesville. |
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Some related links:
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