East of the harbor area off of state road which ran north and south were large chemical plants, a General Electric Motor plant, and another reclamation plant where they repaired rolling stock. These plants were and still do supply a great amount of the jobs in the area. In addition to the smaller plants that were off Ann avenue, which included the Fork and Hoe, Itenfiber Co., Corrugated Box Co., and the Tannery. There was another tannery in the gulf on the bank of the river. The hill where main avenue went down in to the Gulf was called Tannery Hill. There was a seat cover factory also but I don’t remember just where. We had two bottling plants on the east side, one was Coke, but I don’t remember what the other one was.
I did have the one round house installed along with the sorting track, and main train station in the up town area. Most of that was lost when I had a map crash, and I have not replaced the content yet. I have been concentrating on the harbor area where I have one of the sorting areas completed and three of the bridges installed. One bridge was made by Valcan, and the other two by me, since I could not find models of these two particular bridges on the DLS. The screen captures you will find here is of the completed and uncompleted areas of the harbor. I will show the up town areas later as I go along.
The first pictures start on the next page. The first one is of the harbor lift bridge, modeled after the actual bridge which is still in use today. The bridge was constructed in 1926, and under went revention in 1976. It is The Brown Mystic Type Tunnion Bascule Bridge, designed and built by the Brown Engineering Co. out of Cleveland. It is 156 feet long with a main span of 124 feet. Some detail was left off of the model to conserve polys. Traveling east from the lift bridge, picture 2 shows the second road bridge, that passes over the tracks from the sorting yard.
The layout is not exactly like the area, because of a lack of information on the time period. Most of what I do have is from what pictures, and historic writings about the area I was able to find, and from my own memory. |
