*Here is the third photo. A view from hudson street looking west. It is from the front of the depot.

warflight, I do like those photos of the 1830's locos. The layout is very well detailed.  I am still trying out the way to post single photos from flicker and I did one here is a second view . It is from the east end of the Locomotive depot building still looking east to the trainshed and the rear of the depot building.
frank



well this one worked.

bbmiroku, The 1844 map showed a around 40' to 50' turntable. That is what I made. I think it was a 40'. I would have to measure it again.
frank

Terry,  I can see you have appreciated the amount of work it takes to connect 9 stalls of a roundhouse to the turntable.
And Terry, No I won't be doing that. The locomotive depot which is the the roundhouse, Locomotive shop and machine shop I don't think I could remove it from the warped plywood it is fastened to. The track work from roundhouse to the turn table is only visual and not functional. It would all needed to be redone. None of the doors open like a operating building would need. The car maintenance build and the trainshed and depot could be used. Placing doors on the Trainshed 3 entrances would be necessary.

Sid, yes it is prototypical. I have seen it in old photos of smaller 40 and 50 foot turntables. There is no way you can get the track to the turntable without all the crossings. 9 stalls, 18 rails, 16 of which must cross. The easiest way turned out to be the installation of the 8 frogs, and leading the tracks in and out of the frogs..


frank

 Well I'm done with my build of the First Railroad Depot of the Hudson River which provided rail service between New York City and Philadelphia, also points west and south. Though opened for service in 1834, I modeled the 1840 view with the complete terminal in Jersey City. It included Depot, 3 track train shed,  roundhouse, 2 story locomotive assembly and repair building, machine shop, and Car assembly and repair building. If you get to see the photo it is a single view looking east from Washington street. I used all or parts of the John Bull, Prussian, Lafayette, Pegasus, Dewitt Clinton train sets. and a few others. Trix Der-Adler, and Triang Rocket. All are from that time period but some just never made it to Jersey City.  
I don't think anyone ever made a Model of this Depot before.

Link to flickr photo.

* I could not find any parts sheets on the 4-2-0 type locos. Are any parts still aviable for these locos
frank?

* Bachmann made three I think. Prussian, Lafayette, and I maybe one called Pegasus which is one I have never seen. I am building a diorama of  the first terminal built on the Hudson River in Jersey City. Once started I have to totally stop any work on my Ho trains. Concentrating just on the project. The Railroad was the New Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company. Lots of Railroad History in this Company, but very little information. I do think I can build it anyway.
* Now what this is about is I will be trying to get a few of these locomotives for the diorama. They don't have to run. Just sit and look nice.
* If forum members have these locos and wish to part with then please contact me. toptrain1@aol.com   .
frank

 The roofs easily come off on the 6 Lafayette cars I have. And they pop back on.
frank

I have tried to do a second post with a photo. Upon trying i was told that at 600 to 500 it was to big . I made it smaller to 490- 380. This time I was told my upload folder was full. How can that be if i haven't uploaded anything here in over a year. If it is still to big I'll make it smaller.
frank

* Does anyone or you Mr. Bach Man have any info on a Bachmann, " Master Railroad Series " train set the " George Washington ". It has a C&O USRA heavy mountain # 546, and is named George Washington. There are 8 cars, all heavy weights. A Combine, 3 Coaches, a Dinner, 2 Sleepers, and a Observation car. I am wondering when it was released ? How many were made ? Was it a general release made to all the public or only through a Historical society, or museum ? It is a beautiful set ! I do have photos but it is big and wont show very well at 128KB.
* if you can help, that would be nice. If nothing like that is available, then at least members here are now aware of this sets existence. To bad you don't have a way I could download to you a larger photo to be put in a forum file section with a link which could be posted to open a set of larger photos. Whichever is possible is OK !
* Thank you Mr. Bach Man !

 Bach-man : Following your instructions I looked for and could not find, with the loco, the replacement jumper board. Installing jumpers is easy so can you tell me what pins need to be jumped across to complete the circuits. Pin 8 on the main board is clearly marked, and drawing H833X-IS001 clearly shows the other pin locations of the pins 1,4, and 5. Is it 2 to 8 and 4 to 6 as drawing shows. The jumper 2 to 8 appears to cross over pin 1. And the jumper 4 to 6 apears to crossover pin 5. Is this true, or are they joined with 1,2, and 8 being comonly joined and 4,5,and 6 also.  ? ? ?

 * I am kind of repeating what everone said and adding a little'
* If it is small layout, single track, and you are running 1 train at a time.  You can use 1 power pack. Haveing a inslated sideing isn't enough.  A run thro parallel siding with a switch that alows you to pull into the siding off the main line, keep advancing in the same direction on the siding, to another switch to alow you to pull back on to the main line. That is a parallel run trough siding. You can isolate both parallel tracks and switch control the power to one or the other.
* So you would run 1 train on your loop,  around till it pulls on to the parallel section. Both parallel sections should be long enough tohold a train. Stop it there. Shut off power to that section. You change the position of the two switches, in and out of the sidinng,your other train is on the other parralel track which you now switch on .  Once you turn up you throtle off the other train goes. It is caller block wireing.
toptrain

Thankyou Bach-man. Now to find out where the chip and the jumper plugs are and do it.
 

 today I purchased a HO USRA 2-10-2 loco. it is a DCC its instructions states, Quote [ Your Bachmann DCC-equipped locomotive is also 100 percent backwards-compatible with standard DC (non-digital) railroad layouts. ] end Quote. I take this to mean when I put this locomotive on my DC layout it will respond like a DC locomotive without any programming or change. No removal of DCC chip is necessary. In other words this locomotive will run on DC as well as DCC with no modification. I wonder if it is true? I can just put it on my layout and it will run.