MER Clinic: Expanding the Long Island Railroad

Brian is currently expanding his layout. One of his main modeling objectives is to model the car floats and car float barges that the Long Island Railroad had in Long Island City in Brooklyn. The clinic will discuss the design of the expansion, discuss a little of the history of why the LIRR had car floats, and then show how he modeled the car floats, the car float bridges, and the car float yard. The clinic has lots of photos of both the prototype operations on the LIRR and the models of the car floats, car float bridges, etc. that he built. He also discusses the prototype procedures for loading and unloading car floats. Finally, he will discuss how he modeled the picturesque Brooklyn storefronts.

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