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 Posted - February 03 2019 : 09:16:57 AM
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Prarie Schooner. Turned up in my junk box, now has a home. Maybe Mormons
headed to SLC.
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Posted - February 03 2019 : 9:12:45 PM
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Nice, Chops!
Here's my AOTW week offering:
Recent additions of station accessories and HO-Scale railroad workers have enhanced the scenes of the Schuylkill Valley Station and Nazareth Crossing.
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven." - Matthew 5:16
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Posted - February 04 2019 : 8:51:18 PM
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Wicked nice, RP. Really captures the feel of a time and place. Great vintage finds for a vintage
layout.
The Spanish ox cart was the SUV of its day. The solid wheeled cart was pulled by a team of
oxen, at about 3 mph. Not exactly speed wagons. Traveling out of Chihuahua City, in New Spain,
as Mexico was then known in 1598, they took four days to travel to the Pass of the North, later
known as Onate's Crossing, the Hart's Mill Crossing. The oxen, the soldiers, the friars, were so
parched that when the Rio Grande hove into sight, they broke into a stampede, all. Contemporary
writings state that some of the oxen and horses drank so much water that they rolled over and
promptly died.
The Pass of the North was a very important geological feature, as it allowed a level crossing place
from one side of the Sierra Mountain chain to other. Getting one of these wagons over these
steep mountains was pretty much impossible, otherwise.
This piece was scratchbuilt by the late "Doc" Harrison of the El Paso Model Train Club.
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