Home and News

Battery Power

Changes Log

Club Information

Events

Guest Book

Items For Sale

Links

Miniature Pwr Site

Modeling Projects

Modeling Tips

Photo Gallery

Search

Site Index

Photos - Trackwork - Glen Hammond Junction

Show Menu

An unfortunate accident at the crossing between the tunnels, west of Hill Siding and east of Glen Hammond, resulted in the planned repair of the roadbed in the second tunnel being expedited.



Damaged track between tunnels
Track lifted, tunnel daylighted


Closer view of skylighted tunnel
View from low trestle


New retaining wall below Blue Mountain Mine
New bridge abutments


Closer view of new abutments
Top view of new abutments


New roadbed at the end of each trestle
View at Blue Mountain Mine


Lawrence working on new roadbed
Looking west at new bridges


Looking down from new bridges
Looking east at new bridges


Switches at Blue Mountain Mine
Switches at Glen Hammond


Glen Hammond Yard connected
First train across repaired track


Under the new bridges
Over the new bridges


Through the new switch
Into the Glen Hammond Yard


Glen Hammond Yard connected front and rear
Bypass and passing siding taking shape
Bypass to connect just west of Bellamy


Glen Hammond Junction siding and bypass
Re-aligned mainline at Bellamy North


The bypass and Glen Hammond Junction complete
Siding and bypass looking east


Looking north at Bellamy
New crossing and siding at Bellamy


New and repaired track in red
Doug MacKenzie presenting Fred Mills
with a momento of the occassion

A new branch line partner, The Rat Portage and Mattawa Railway, is now responsible for traffic within the old Glen Hammond freight yard and Bellamy. To avoid confusion, the freight yard has been renamed the Nelson Yard, while the IPP&W passenger station on the bypass will remain Glen Hammond.

The new branch line wasted little time upgrading the track work and installing new switches at both ends of the yard. Show here are a RP&M crew busy ballasting the Nelson Yard.

June 8, 2007
RP&M and IPP&W crews installed the roadbed for an extra siding on the Glen Hammond Bypass.

June 11, 2007
The switches and track have been installed. IPP&W crews will now be able to pick-up cars on the new siding left there by RP&M crews working the Nelson Yard. Cars destined for points on the RP&M will also be dropped there for RP&M crews to pick up.


To return to the Photo Gallery,
just click on the following link.
Photo Index


Comment on this Page
Last Modified 6/11/07 2:40 PM