The Cashaway Valley Railroad
With connections to the Norfolk & Western Railway
"On time and on track to the future"
2 X 6 City Module
Plexiglass Control Panels
The New River Mine
New 4-27-2012
New Coal Mine on Branch
New Truck Dump at New River
New Conveyor at New River
Oak Hill Construction Photos
6 years in 34 minutes JMRI Decoder Installations
Electronics
CTC Panel
Rewiring the railroad
Updated 4/27/2012 Statistics as of 04-27-2012
Chronology
New Operations Video
100th Op Session
Updated 04-27-2012-2010
My Favorite End
of Train Device
Geez it has been awhile since this page has been updated. Lots of change on the CVRR in the past two years.
New Scratch Built Coal Mine on the branch, new Truck dump at the big mine at Layland, and the city of Oak Hill
is complete except for lights and telephone poles. But the big news is we completed
the 100th Operating Session on the CVRR on April 21, 2012.
Links to all the changes are in the index to the left, just click on the Sections that have items in
Red with an update date of 4/27/2012. Railroad Operations and Photos
have been updated as well.
The CVRR is an Operating Railroad. That is, at least twice a month friends gather for the sole purpose of moving coal and other goods over the railroad. It is a lot of fun, just think "very large board game". If you have plans to be in the Houston, Texas area, send me an e-mail and we will run trains on the CVRR.
About this Web site
Its only purpose is to, hopefully, provide information that will be useful to others in the Model Railroading Hobby. A lot of the pages are how to pages, with lessons learned as I have developed my hobby skills. Very few of us are born with the ability to build a tree or a mountain, much less lay track, wire it up, develop a train schedule or an operating concept. These are all, fortunately I think, acquired skills. I hope you find something here worthwhile and if you have a comment or question click my e-mail address and send me a note.
Hope to see you on, or at least along, the CVRR main.
Jim Thompson
Chief Operating Officer, Cashaway Valley Railroad
Yes, that was the whistle from the 611, on its
last run.
Thanks to Kipp Teague's Web Site;
http://www.retroweb.com/611.html
Home of the Orginal E-Pass!
E-Mail me to get yours!
jthompson999@att.net
My favotite Engine Ever! N&W Class J, #611 Roanoke Va. July 1997
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