Layout Tour #8 - Port Hope

     Welcome to Port Hope, Ontario.  Port Hope is a little more than 100 km east of Toronto and is on the shore of Lake Ontario.  The Port Hope Viaduct is a double track trestle bridge.  

To the west of the Port Hope Viaduct is an A-Frame hidden in the woods.  I really like this building.  It was one I wanted to make sure was on the layout.  I detailed the cottage with Adirondack chairs.  There is also a black lab waiting on the deck and a ginger cat waiting in the window for their owner to return.  The A-Frame is a Faller building and the figures are from Mini-Prints.

    On the east side of the viaduct is the Cameco Corporation.  Cameco is a uranium conversion facility.  It produces fuel for nuclear power plants.  It is rail served.  CN delivers tank cars of Hydrogen Fluoride Anhydrous throughout the week.  I scratch built the facility.  There are still a few details and some signage I need to add.

I added a model fusee on the crossing outside of the Cameco facility.  Fusees are road flares railroads use to catch the attention of motorists as they approach a grade crossing that needs additional protection.  Fusees are being uses at this crossing because of limited visibility on the hill and because the rail crew conducts several movements across the crossing as they move tank cars into and out of the facility.