Kings Mountain "Model" In HO Scale

NSyorktown · May 11, 2011, 08:50:53 PM

To E.M. Bell, or others with photographs of Kings Mountain:

I've been revising my CNO&TP layout for the past year, and will post tons of pics fairly soon.

But I'm looking for a photograph like the 2002 pic at the bottom of this Reply #28 thread:

http://www.jreb.org/ns/index.php?topic=91.msg450#msg450

The attached photograph shows why . . . . I'm trying to get my "by-passed" tunnel entrance to look somewhat realistic (prior to finishing off the trees, shrubs, etc. on the front face of the old tunnel entrance and on the top-side of my Kings Mountain vista). Plus, in this view, you can see that I haven't even started the entire east (right) side.

Does anyone have a "good" close-up of the south tunnel portal, to post here or e-mail me at:

Something like this would work: http://www.pbase.com/kd4jsl/image/93512403

Thanks in advance, RDS

E.M. Bell · May 11, 2011, 11:28:07 PM

Well, you posted the link to the pic I was going to send you! Thats the best detail shot I have of the South End of #2. It pretty much looks the same today, maybe grown up a tad more.

Call on our tunnel man, Butch Adkins. If Anyone here has the pics you want, it will probably be him!

butch · May 12, 2011, 10:03:07 AM

Here are a few angles I have. And I threw in a pic from the August 63 Ties Magazine that detailed the religinments that reduced the Rathole to just four tunnels. I hope they help.

NSyorktown · May 12, 2011, 12:43:29 PM

Great, many thanks for the images!

I might even include a small pool of water at the entrance, as that looks like a low spot where run-off might collect.

Appreciate it.

RDS

P.S. - If anyone else has some recent pics, post away . . . . they'll be helpful as well.

butch · May 12, 2011, 01:25:39 PM

Well, if you want water, you should consider the north portal. The last couple hundred feet is always a pool of water-or ice. And don't forget the ventilation shaft in the middle.

NSyorktown · May 12, 2011, 01:51:33 PM

I wonder if they make rattlesnakes in HO scale?

There have to be a few of them in the area!

( You know, to be totally realistic )

butch · May 12, 2011, 02:45:29 PM

Actually, I don't know if there're many around central KY anymore, copperheads maybe. Now if you get down into TN, then...

Badhorse79 · May 12, 2011, 03:59:51 PM

I don't know about rattlesnakes but yep there's copperheads one summer me and Ken hanks were walkin down the hill and sittin right on in the web of the rail chillin is a copperhead and I ran like a lil girl lol oh the memories

billworsham · May 12, 2011, 08:32:40 PM

Here are Steve's shot from our journeys over the last couple years...

https://picasaweb.google.com/ssmith1627/CNOTP#5446333008495601234

https://picasaweb.google.com/ssmith1627/CNOTP#5446333025121949810

https://picasaweb.google.com/ssmith1627/CNOTP#5446333057898551266

NSyorktown · May 12, 2011, 09:06:04 PM

Many thanks for the pics.

It sure is easy to see how a term like "rathole" was applied to the line (even decades ago, with the tunnels in much better shape).

Appreciate it!

I will say that it has been "fun" re-creating the long walls of the deep cut in plaster. The attached pic shows the process, obviously at a condensed perspective.