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Official Publication ofTHE SUNRISE TRAIL DIVISION, INC.
Northeastern RegionNational Model Railroad Association
VOLUME 35 NUMBER 2 SUMMER 2005
MODELING MINEOLA
JOE KAVANAGH BUILDS A BIG RAILROAD
THE PREVIOUS ISSUE of the proposed trafficdensity as one of the important factors in settling upon an era tomodel Mineola. Historical timelines for Long Island Railroad(LIRR) branches with trains that passed through Mineola at onetime or another showed that the potential for the greatest varietyand density of traffic existed from the late 1890s through the mid1960s, when trains could have passed through Mineola on theirway to or from destinations on the mainline and five branches.After that period service on the original Hempstead Branch wasdiscontinued, the tracks from Mineola south were removed androuting possibilities were reduced to the four that exist today.Those seventy-odd years provide a wide window for modelingpurposes and greatly facilitate the other consideration for era: theavailability of scale motive power and rolling stock appropriate forthe time period to be modeled.
Timelines are also useful in determining the service periods forlocomotives and rolling stock and, therefore, can be an excellenttool for choosing an era to model. The LIRR equipment timelinechart on page 5 includes many of the steam and diesel locomotivetypes employed by the railroad between 1945 and 1977. In additionit includes timelines for the railroad's Budd rail diesel cars (RDCs)and MP70 multiple unit (MU) cars, as well as the P-54 and P-72class passenger cars. Note that these timelines do not reflect howmany of the various pieces of equipment that the railroad owned(e.g. the LIRR rostered just one Baldwin VO660 and a singleBaldwin DS44-1000). Paint scheme timelines are at the top of thechart. provides an excellent pictorialreference for those.
Of course everyone has different reasons for selecting an era tomodel. But if wanting the greatest variety of locomotives and
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Diesels of the Sunrise Trail
IT IS NO SECRET that Joe Kavanagh likes really large scalemodel trains—the kind you can ride on. His account of a visit to theWimberly, Blanco & Southern, a 7½ inch gauge railroad created byNick Edwards and Bob Hornsby on Edwards’ 40 acre ranch inWimberly, Texas, appeared in three issues of thebetween the Summer, 2001, and Spring, 2002 issues.
Since making that trip, Joe, a long-time member of the SunriseTrail Division, and his wife, Daisy, have moved from White Plainsto Lake Luzerne, New York, where he has begun creating a a reallylarge scale railroad of his own. The pictures on this and subsequentpages will give you an idea of Joe’s progress.Cannon Ball
more photos on page 4
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Mixed ConsistMixed Consisteditor’s notes / WALTER WOHLEKING
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EDITOR and PUBLISHER
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Walter G. Wohleking
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John MacGown
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is published quarterly by Sunrise Trail Division, Inc. of theNortheastern Region of the National Model RailroadAssociation, Inc. for the benefit of the model railroadingcommunity.
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the Mailbagthe Mailbagcontributions may be edited for clarity
Dear Walter,The front page photo in the Spring 2005
intrigued me. As I sat therestudying it I made two observations. First,the Alco diesel is spewing as much smokeas the "steamer" coming towards it. Theywere notorious for that, and a photo in oneof my books points out that the MineolaBlvd. overpass actually had more smokestains on it after the road was 100%dieselized than before. Lastly, I think thediesel noted as an S-1 is probably really anRS-1. If you study the photo you will noticea short handrail aft of the cab.(parallel to thelong front one). The S-1 had no rear/shorthood aft of the cab as did the RS-1.
Ken Szekretar, via email
Dear Mr. Wohleking,Just finished reading the Cannon Ball
Spring 2005 issue and your commentary"Alice in NMRA Land". For a Divisionofficer to write a critical review of aNational Organization action is refreshing.Thank you for stating the obvious and notcontinuing the practice of defending theNMRA right or wrong. Couldn't agreemore with your reasoning regarding thedues increase and the total lack of regard forthe membership by those in charge. BobHundman, writing inJanuary 2004, stated about 35% of NMRAmembers opted not to receive .The dues increase, applied only to the groupnot receiving , is a blatantattempt by the NMRA to force one third ofthe membership to subsidize the continuedpublication of a magazine they choose notto receive.
I'm a former NMRA member andresponded to a commentary by TonyCapato in the back in 2003. Noneed to rehash my comments here and therebuttal that followed. This latest actionconfirms to me, that despite the LRP andnew bylaws, the attitude at the nationallevel has not changed since I left theorganization.
The membership of the STD owe you adebt of gratitude for speaking out in theirbehalf against NMRA officials protectingtheir "turf" with another destructive duesincrease.
Matt Herson, Oceanside NY,
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Scale Rails
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Ken’s right. It an RS-1.
Stay tuned. The Fall, 2005 Cannon Ball willinclude a proposal for increasing NMRAmembership and annual revenue, whilereducing member dues.
is
via email
SUMMER DOLDRUMSA seemingly endless parade of contrac-
tors bent on sprucing up our 50+ year oldhome has redefined normalcy around heresince early March, when it all began.Doldrums due to the inability to use placesand things we ordinarily employed in ourday-to-day lives set in. Limited, sporadicaccess to my office, where this noble rag isassembled, effectively laid waste to the
schedule and content, as thescandalously late arrival of this issue bearswitness. With almost everything done forthe time being and only the rug merchantleft to deal with, model railroading affairscan begin anew, or at least until one of thecontractors has to return to fix something hedidn’t get right the first time.
Model railroaders should be able to em-pathize with people who don’t get thingsright the first time. While it’s pretty muchthe modeler’s modus operandi, it shouldn’tbe for the editor of a model railroading re-lated newsletter. In other words, me.
While regularly striving for clarity andcorrectness in the printed word, there’s an-other side of me that hopes readers regardthe more than occasional error and vague-ness as the output of an aging, editing ec-centric—someone who really enjoys sittingon the depot baggage cart spinning yarnsand then writing them in letters to a guynamed, “Clem”.
On occasion, however, some things de-mand clarification, and such is the case for aportion of last issue’s . In it, Iwrote in regard to the fact that relatively fewpeople attend national or regional conven-tions when their own division is not thehost, “at the NER 2003 Fall Convention inIslandia, attendance from outside the STDwas less than 3%.”
That made it sound like only 3% of theattendees were not from the Sunrise TrailDivision. What I should have said was “atthe NER 2003 Fall Convention in Islandia,attendance from outside the STD was lessthan 3%
.” This in fact waswhat was originally written, but while try-ing to squeeze a lot of long-winded proseinto the space available, some valuablewords were excised. My apologies to all.
The omission from this of aplan that could turn the tide of decreasingNMRA membership and thus increaseNational’s revenues while reducing thedues of individual members wasn’t the re-sult of editing (it will be in the next issue). Itwas the summer / house repair doldrums.Which is where we came in.
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rolling stock passing through Mineola as frequently as possible isthe primary goal, then equipment and historical timelines point to1955 as the year to choose. As shown on the timeline chart, thefollowing collection of diesel motive power was active to onedegree or another:Baldwin VO660, DS44-600 and DS44-1000 switchers
Alco S-1 and S-2 switchersAlco RS-1 and RS-3 road switchersFairbanks Morse H16-44 road switcherFairbanks Morse CPA20-5 and CPA24-5 cab units (the onlyCPA20-5 engines FM ever built).
While steam was essentially gone, a few G5 Ten-Wheelers, K4Pacifics and H10 Consolidations were still active. The railroad'sBudd RDCs were in operation in 1955, as well as MP70 MU self-propelled passenger equipment. The diesel and steam locomotiveswere on the point of trains made up of venerable P-54 “ping-pong”and spanking new P-72 coaches.
No other year offers such variety. A year earlier and no AlcoRS-3s or Budd RDCs were in service, nor were the P-72 coaches. Ayear later and the year-old Alco RS-3s had signaled the end of
steam for good. Furthermore, 1955 falls within the time period ofthe largest route options for traffic passing through Mineola. Trainsmight have been coming from or heading to locations along themainline to Greenport, as well as branches to Oyster Bay, PortJefferson, Montauk, Hempstead and Valley Stream.
Other notable timeline-related years were 1964, when Alco420s replaced all the Fairbanks Morse equipment, and 1976, whenGP38s replaced all Alco road units. Because the FM units wereused as credit toward the Alco 420s, no operational overlap wouldhave existed where the both FM and Alco 420s were in servicetogether, even briefly. The LIRR had disposed of a third of its Alco420 fleet by March of 1976, and the remainder by year's end, so it ispossible that a few 420s continued to operate after the arrival of theGP38s. By 1976, however, the more cost effective equipmentmakeup of the LIRR had made it less interesting from a modelingstandpoint, and the branches to Hempstead and points southwestwere gone.
A goodly number of LIRR models are currently available forthe 1955 time period. A listing of some, along with informationsources for modeling Mineola, are provided on page 7.
LIRR Equipment Timelines
1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975
Baldwin VO-660
Tichy
Baldwin DS44-660
Orange Nose
Baldwin DS44-1000
World’s Fair
Dashing Dan logo
Alco S-1
Alco S-2
Alco RS-1
Alco RS-2
Alco RS-3
Alco C420
GM GP38
FM H16-44
FM CPA20-5
FM CPA24-5
Budd RDC-2
MP70B,C
P-72
H-10 [2-8-0]
G-5 [4-6-0]
K-4 [4-6-2]
P-54
Modeling Mineolacontinued from page 1
4 THE CANNON BALL
Joe Kavanagh Buildsa Railroad
IN A LITTLE PUBLICIZED EVENT, the National ModelRailroad association (NMRA) has had the portion of its
magazine available for download on the internet since
the beginning of the year. The publication is in PDF format.from January, 2005 on can be found at
http://www.nmra.org/bulletin.html.Bulletin
Scale RailsBulletins
NMRA is available on the InternetBulletin
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SUNRISE TRAIL DIVISION, INC.Northeastern Region National Model Railroad Association
38THANNUAL CONVENTION
Saturday, November 5, 2005 – 10 AM to 5 PMFirst Church Baldwin United Methodist Church – 881 Merrick Road, Baldwin, N.Y.
LIVE CLINICS
MODEL CONTEST
PHOTO CONTEST
TIMESAVER SWITCHING GAME
WHITE ELEPHANT TABLE
RAFFLE
DOOR PRIZES
AUCTION
NMRA Merit Award judging
Bring your favorite model & prototype pics
O, HO and N scales
NCE Digital Command Control System
OPERATING MODULARLAYOUTS
Lots of real model railroad bargains
ADMISSION $5Children under 12 & Scouts in uniform
admitted free with paid adult
(does not include banquet)
BANQUET$25 at the door
$20 in advance(limited availability)
(prior to October 22nd)
(718) 528-2308
www.sunrisetraildiv.com
Advance reservation form on back.
Directions on back.
For more information
Banquet at 6PMwith entertainment by
Mike Martin
If you only have time for one train show this season, make it this one!
of the
OPEN TO EVERYONE
Play John Allen’s Timesaver
Win a DCC System
Celebrate Model Railroad Month
all at the
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Please make checks payable to:
and send to:Sunrise Trail Division
Fernand WashingtonSTD Convention Registrar
179-65 Selover RoadJamaica NY 11434–3411
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GETTING TO THE SUNRISE TRAIL DIVISION CONVENTIONFirst Church Baldwin
United Methodist Church881 Merrick RoadBaldwin NY 11510
FROM THE WESTSouthern State Pkwy. east to Exit 20,Grand Ave. south about 2½ miles to Merrick Rd. Turn left.Church is about 2 blocks down on the left (north).
Grand Ave.
PARKINGThere is ample parking behind the church.Use the rear entrance.
FROM THE NORTH & EASTMeadowbrook Pkwy. south to Exit M9,Merrick Rd. west about 2½ miles .Church is on the right (north).
Merrick Rd West.through Freeport to Baldwin
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FALL MARKS THE TRADITIONAL BEGINNING
THE ONTARIO & WESTERN RAILWAY
THE GREAT SOUTH BAY MODEL RAILROAD CLUB,
of the trainshow season, and the next issue of the Cannon Ball will include alisting of open houses and shows in our area. In the meantime, hereare two notices we received recently.
Historical Societywill be hosting its 42nd Annual Convention on November 13th atthe Orange County Community College Dining Hall, South St. &East Conkling Ave. in Middletown NY. Local tours of remainingO&W Ry. sites will start at 10:00AM from the Society's ArchivesCenter at 20 Cottage St. Convention registration starts at 1:30PM.Model, collectible and prototype displays will be featured, alongwith dinner in the evening. Admission is $30 including dinner or$27 without. For more information contact Charles Van Der Eems,333 Van Winkle Ave., Hawthorne NJ 07506-1036.
Inc. will hold its Fifteenth annual Winter Train Show andExhibition between 10:00AM and 4:00PM, Sunday, January 8,2006, at the Freeport Recreation Center, 130 East Merrick Rd.,Freeport. Admission will be $5.00. Children under 12 years of agewill be admitted free when accompanied by an adult. For furtherinformation contact the show coordinator, Kevin R. McKay,66 Van Buren St. Freeport NY 11520. He can be reached by phoneat 516-223-9357 or via fax at 516-608-9268.
AN EFFORT IS UNDERWAY to build up thearchives. If you have back issues that you've thought aboutdiscarding or are willing to part with, please review the list ofmissing issues below. If anything on that list matches what youhave, please get in touch with Walter Wohleking, editor of theCannon Ball. Contact information is on the masthead.
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Train Show season nears Modeling Mineola continued from page 3
Just an hour of your time can help the STD
Cannon Ball back issues sought
Year Vol. Issue(s)2000 30 41989 19 31987 17 1,2,31986 16 1,2,3,41985 15 1,2,3,41984 14 1,2,3,41983 13 1,2,3,41982 12 1,2,4
Year Vol. Issue(s)1981 11 1,3,41980 10 2,3,41979 9 2,31978 8 2,41977 7 2,3,51976 6 2,51975 and prior: All
THE GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES of the Sunrise TrailDivision (STD) are formed by the boroughs of Manhattan, theBronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, and Nassau and Suffolk Countieson Long Island. At last count, the National Model RailroadAssociation (NMRA) identified about 270 members living withinthose areas, which, therefore, is the number of members that makeup the STD. Like many, if not most, organizations only a smallpercentage of the membership involves itself directly in carryingout the aims and objectives the organization. In the STD's case thatnumber is somewhere between 6% and 10%. The STD Board ofDirectors (BOD) would like to see that change and not simply toease the burden on those that do participate. Broader participationby the membership in the affairs of the division will guarantee thatmore and varied ideas will be aired and implemented to the benefitof everyone.
In an effort to encourage participation, while making it aspainless as possible, the Division has created the “One-HourClub”, which asks anyone and everyone to pledge at least one hour
during each quarter of the calendar year to some STD activity oranother. It doesn't have to be as an officer or director (although theSTD is always looking for fresh blood for those roles). It doesn'thave to be as a clinician at a meet or as an author for aitem or article (although those are great ways to help othermodelers directly). Instead, it can be for one hour of work at a meetor other event, helping to setup, to collect admissions, to sit intemporarily for someone else for an hour, or just to be a jack-of-all-trades for one of the hours during the event. Because STD eventsoccur quarterly at most, joining the One-Hour Club wouldgenerally mean a commitment of less than four hours a year towardmaking the division better serve its members. To join the One-HourClub and help serve the New York metro area modelingcommunity, contact STD Membership Coordinator, WalterWohleking, using address, email or phone information provided inthis newsletter's masthead. He will discuss with you when andhow the STD might best use the valuable hour your participationrepresents.
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REFERENCES
SELECTED MODELS
Diesels of the Sunrise Trail
Steel Rails to the Sunrise
The Long Island Railroad 1925-1975
The Long Island Railroad
Victorian Railroad Stations of Long Island
MTA-Long Island Rail Road - An All Time RosterExtra 2200 South
The Long Island Railroad Comes BackTrains
Parlor Car EastTrains
Long Island: Back from Loonyville? (Part 1)Trains
Modeling [New Haven’s] CPA-24-5 passenger locomotiveRailroad Model Craftsman
Long Island’s Oyster Bay branchModel Railroad Planning 2004
kits without decalsnot in LIRR livery
not in LIRR livery
not in LIRR livery
LIRR livery with orange nose & Dashing Dan logo
not in LIRR liveryPing Pong
kit with decals & trucksPing Pong
kit with decals without trucksoriginal & rebuilt
kit with decals without trucks
by John J. Scala (Weekend Chief, 1984)
by Ron Ziel & George Foster (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1965)
by John Keller & Steven Lynch (Arcadia Publishing, 2004)
by Frederick Kramer & John Krause (Carstens Publications)
by Ron Ziel & Richard Wettereau (Sunrise Special Ltd., 1988)
by Dan Dover ( , Jul-Aug-Sep 1978)
by William D. Middleton ( , Dec 1957)
by H. Stafford Bryant ( , May 1968)
by William D. Middleton ( , Jan & Feb 1971)
by Robert Gross ( , Oct 2001)
by Steve Lynch ( )
G-5, K-4, H-10 steam locomotivesBowser
K-4 steam locomotivesBachmann Spectrum, Broadway Limited
Alco S1 diesel switcherLife Like (Walthers) Proto 2000
Baldwin VO660, Baldwin DS44-1000 diesel switchersStewart (Bowser)
Alco RS-1, Alco RS-3, FM H16-44 diesel road switchersAtlas
Budd RDC-1, RDC-2 rail diesel cars, Alco RS-2 diesel switcherLife Like (Walthers) Proto 1000
P-54 coach, P-72 coachImages Replica
P-54 coachFunaro & Camerlengo
N52A cabooseFunaro & Camerlengo
MODELING MINEOLA
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