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John Whitby Allen (July 2, 1913 – January 6, 1973) was a prominent American model railroader.He pioneered or developed several aspects of the hobby on his HO scale Gorre & Daphetid model railroad in Monterey, California, popularizing them with numerous magazine articles and photographs starting in the 1940s.
San Francisco Belt Railroad roundhouse, the Belt Railroad Engine House and Sandhouse, San Francisco, CA, NRHP-listed; Lenzen Roundhouse, originally located in San Jose, California, currently disassembled while the California Trolley and Railroad Corporation searches for new site
The engine-house is a polygon of sixteen sides, and 190 feet (58 m) in diameter, lighted from a dome-shaped roof, of the height of 50 feet (15.2 m). It contains 16 lines of rails, radiating from a single turn-table in the centre: the engines, on their arrival, are taken in there, placed upon the turn-table, and wheeled into any stall that may ...
Buildings that housed a pumping engine for an atmospheric railway; House-built engines, where the engine is the house. A house-built engine is a large beam engine where the engine house itself forms the frame of the engine. The term "engine house" is also used, widely in the United States and perhaps elsewhere, to mean:
The Gorre & Daphetid ([ˈɡɔːri], [dɪˈfiːtɪd]) model railroad was a notable HO-scale layout built by John Whitby Allen in Monterey, California.. The Gorre & Daphetid, also known as "The Gorre" or just "The G&D," is a trio of three successive model railroads.
Other forms of surface and internal defects: corrosion; inclusions; seams; shelling; transverse fissures; wheel burn; One effect that can cause crack propagation is the presence of water and other liquids. When fluid fills a small crack and a train passes over, the water becomes trapped in the void and can expand the crack tip.
Armstrong wrote many books and articles on the subject of railroading and model railroading. His personal model railroad, the Canandaigua Southern, was the subject of many newspaper and magazine articles by other writers. In the late 1940s, Armstrong submitted a track plan to a contest sponsored by the magazine Model Railroader. His plan was so ...
Northern Pacific Railroad Shops, Brainerd, Minnesota Inside a diesel shed, Peterborough, South Australia Old railway depot in Suonenjoki, Finland A motive power depot (MPD) or locomotive depot, or traction maintenance depot (TMD), is where locomotives are usually housed, repaired and maintained.