Phillips to Madrid Junction

The covered bridge, across the Sandy River, just north of Phillips, built from individual pieces of stripwood, with complete interior framing, just like the prototype -- and to full length.  This is a view looking upriver, with Phillips to the left (south) and the Old Stone Fort to the north (behind the bridge and around the curve.  On the prototype, there was a long siding in that area, which crews often used when they needed to store cars or clear out the Phillips yard.  I was not able to include it on the model, unfortunately -- it would come in handy during some operating sessions!

Here is a similar view, also taken from the downstream side, but this time looking north, with the P&R (upper) Yard and teh town of Phillips in the background:

The model and the prototype -- in the upper photo, extreme top center, notice the Mooselookmeguntic House hotel in Rangeley, on the upper deck:

  

 

The "Old Stone Fort" was originally built for the Phillips & Rangeley, then abandoned -- built using plaster walls cast in stripwood and paper molds, and then scribed and painted.  This is the current site of the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad museum, which operates a section of restored track.  The derelict locomotives are a variety of old hulks of uncertain origin, purchased on eBay.

Here is another set of model vs. prototype photos:

  

The Davenport Flat was located a short distance north of the Old Stone Fort.  It flooded every spring, because of ice dams.  Because I model in the summer, I thought that it would be fun to replace the ice dam with a beaver dam.  Of course, there is a SR&RL crew trying to blow up the dam, and of course the beavers are at the same time trying to blow up the railroad -- they are nature's engineers, after all.

 

Continuing north, we come to Madrid Junction

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