[Pery Scope]

The new US tracks have caused me to adapt my project of the Charles City Western in Iowa slightly and to continue building (and finishing! :D ) the route. Here are a few pictures:

Switching in the industrial area in Charles City



The wye in South Charles City




The bridge over the Cedar River


The junction with the Rock Island in Marble Rock

[natlam]

Hello Fireman,

It’s really a great achievement, it’s a chance to be able to travel there.

Have a nice day
Nathalie

[engmod]

Looks like my kinda route as well.
I like the small routes that have switching/shunting.
And this one is really in the public eye.

[damo]

This is great mate...

I dabbled in something similar a while back

https://www.elvastow...__1#entry113232

[natlam]

Hello Damo

damo, on 12 March 2024 - 12:59 AM, said:

This is great mate...

I dabbled in something similar a while back

https://www.elvastow...__1#entry113232

...and it was very beautiful too.

Have a nice day
Nathalie

[eric from trainsim]

Having seen the real thing, this is quite interesting. Hope it eventually is released.

[Weter]

There were many videos on YT seen about that network.

[steved]

That's really well done. I'm impressed.
If it's the 1950s or earlier the stop signs are yellow.

Randy

Been down that rabbit hole.
Found it, https://www.elvastow...post__p__290836

[Pery Scope]

Hello all,

thank you for your positive contributions. I am currently concentrating my work on just this route in order to complete it as soon as possible. I would like to publish them then.

@Nathalie: I also really like small routes like this, but I attach importance to small details like this. :)

@Damo: I remember and found the little “Iowa Traction” very interesting. Mmh, it could add such a short traction line to the LSRC. Oh no, another new building idea... ;)

@Randy: Thanks for the tip about the stop sign. As a European, I didn't know that. I had already seen the yellow stop signs in photos, but assumed that this was regulated differently in each state. (I was already looking for a complete overview of traffic signs from the 1950s, but couldn't quite find anything on the Internet.)


It is no longer possible to explain why the Mason City & Clear Lake locomotive runs here on the CCW. It probably borrowed for a short time. Mason City is not that far away from Charles City.

Greetings

[Jovet]

Pery Scope, on 13 March 2024 - 12:46 AM, said:

Thanks for the tip about the stop sign. As a European, I didn't know that. I had already seen the yellow stop signs in photos, but assumed that this was regulated differently in each state. (I was already looking for a complete overview of traffic signs from the 1950s, but couldn't quite find anything on the Internet.)

STOP signs changed to red octagons in about 1954. It was a national standard. Before that, most were black on yellow and octagonal, but not all were. YIELD signs stayed black on yellow until 1971, but obtained their equilateral-triangle shape in 1956. Many of the US textual road signs we know the looks of today were standardized in the late 1950s and 60s. So, depending on the exact years you're intending to model, you can get away with some leeway. For example, you won't find any red STOP signs before 1954, but you can find older yellow ones decades later than that.

Older signs could vary quite a bit based on location and local tradition. I have made a small set of basic "vintage" road signs. For example, with speed limit signs, after the mid-50s they usually look like they do today, but for before that I designed them with an older flair:
https://msts.jovet.net/files/images/JJHRoadOldSigns5_Preview.jpg