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These pages have a variety of scenes that might help other people model the former Green Bay and Western yard east of the Wisconsin River. Few of the pictures show the area 'perfectly', and with time and weather I might get better views. I didn't even build this web page correctly, the pictures might be slow loading because I processed them from west to east and then show them in the other order. Looking east from 1st Street. . . . . the roundhouse is to the right out of view. |
| First Street aerial, looking north up the street |
| An east-bound morning switch job arriving at 1st Street. |
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There are Taverns on both sides of the tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .To the North is the Buck Rub . . . . .. . . . .on the corner of 1st Street and Railroad Street. |
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On the south side of the tracks is the 1st Street Pub. At the time of this picture (2007?), I was more interested in the train and not the building. |
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. . . . . . . In 2003 it was . . . 'The Depot' . . . bar.
. . . .Notice the resemblance to the picture above.
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Before about 2004, the 4 tracks were protected by twin red light highway signals.
Now, it is crossbucks.
Trains from the west pull up and stop before proceeding across 1st street, making for a safe passage.
I haven't seen a night time switch job occupying the crossing in a long time.
Back then, they used a lot of red fusees to warn car traffic.
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| Looking west in 2003. . . . . .The Wisconsin River bridge is in the distant left. |
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Aerial view looking north at a point of land and the Wisconsin River. The four-track yard starts behind the grey warehouse. |
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| WC on the bridge |
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The steel rivet and weld pattern shows in this blurred picture. I looked for a better picture, but they have the detail washed out by no contrast in bright sun. Before the days of double stacks, this was steel trusses with beams over the top. Sometime in the ? 1980's ? , it was converted to these girders.
I don't have a good picture yet of the 2 city sewer pipes that are supported by the bridge on the north side. |
If you are modeling this area, you might want to include some structures within 4 blocks of this area.
Either by building them, or painting them on a backdrop..
In the railroad area,
there is an older style water tower with a railing around it,
NOT the new style shown here.
Although this one would be easy to build.
I don't have a close-up picture of the older style yet.
But ALL the water towers have this paint scheme.
I guess they've been painted like this at least since 2007.
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There is a distant view of the water tower that is near the RR on this page:
Grand Rapids Autumn river panoramic
Saints Peter and Paul Church is 3 blocks south of the taverns.
And if you could paint the River or the GRAND RAPIDS and the dam . . . . .
. . .then you would be a master at modeling with selective compression.
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Link to my original site, with no advertising, and a complete chronological list of my pages of ALL sites,
Bruce's RailRoad Pictures index page
wrote Nov 22-25, 2009. Pictures taken over a 6 year period.