Tag: Amtrak

Model Train meets Real World – New Amtrak Station, Wallingford CT

This image begins with a trip to Wallingford CT where, along with my wife Cheryl, we photographed the new Amtrak Train Station. This station was built about three years ago and ia 1/4 mile north of the original Train Station. Then the Conrail GP-40 locomotive, N-Scale (1:160) Atlas train, along […]

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Model train meets real world. Original trains station downtown, Wallingford CT

Using photoshop I merged a close up photo of an N scale (1:160) model train with an actual image of Wallingford CT’s downtown railroad station. The locomotive EMD SD P4 F and each passenger car is about 5″ long and about 1″ tall. They type 1 phase II which represents […]

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Steel Truss Train Bridge – Old Saybrook, CT

Obviously this bridge, by virtue of its name, connects the towns of Old Saybrook and Old Lyme, CT. It can be seen from the Raymond E. Baldwin Bridge which carries traffic north and southbound over I-95 and is located approx.. 1/2″ mile north of the train bridge. Both bridges cross […]

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