Valuable older views,
Of local working “choo-choos”
Abounding detail
Of where and which vale,
Researchers like to be less confused!
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I think this photo is neat,
My love of the NEW HAVEN is sweet…
That paint scheme I’ll attest
I do love the best,
Details here make my knowledge more complete!
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–Jonathan Caswell
(A Google image)
ABOVE: a NEW HAVEN RAILROAD Rail Diesel Car* (BING IMAGE)
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Worked on the Train layout,
An N scale one laying about (!)…
An eleven-inch curve
On his truss bridge (what nerve!),
Just happened to work out.
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His N scale RDC*,
Rolled through easily…
Cemented the track
So it won’t spring back,
Prevented catastrophe!
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A scale Eighty-five feet-
Long (N scaled) from his passenger fleet…
It took that curve
With nary a swerve,
His work in that end is near-complete!
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–Jonathan Caswell
**NOTE: He actually used a double track truss bridge which he shortened and removed the original two tracks from to lay his 11-inch model track curve inside—a bridge like the one below:
Image source: ebay.
The good old switcheroo,
A thing that horse thieves may do…
But this is mental–
Take a “New York Central”
Switch the shell for “New Haven” to view!
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Knuckle couplers are on this chassis,
Can’t think of much more classy…
My New England road
Another RS-3* is owed,
This orange-and-black now has he?
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–Jonathan Caswell
Another RS-3*…a road switcher locomotive model produced by the American Locomotive Company up until the early 1960’s.
THE ONE THAT…YOU KNOW!
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He went back on Ebay
Io catch the one that got away…
An ALCO RS-1
Painted for New Haven,
An orange and brown display,
Just like in Massachusetts
An RS-1 has uses…
In excursions
And freight incursions–
Economics without excuses!
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–Jonathan Caswell
(atlasmodelrrco.)
THE ONE THAT ALMOST GOT AWAY!
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He went back to Ebay
For the one that had gotten away…
It took years
Of search to appear,
He has it now–HAPPY DAY!
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–Jonathan Caswell
(atlasmodelrr.com)
