Part three, JTJ revisited

More images



































Jädraås

(images here on this side are clickable)


I revisited JTJ in June of 2007 in order to look a little more on this interesting preserved line. I was lucky to find one of their steamers fired up and a diesel powered dinner train at the platform.At Jädraås which back in the heydays was the hub of the narrow gauge railroad with an intersting background. Much of it remains and does offer you a trip back to somewhere 1920-1950 era, which was some of the busiest time on the line.


Though the yard itself is way to big to be an average yard in a average sized yard, it does offer a lot of ideas and actually modelling it as it is or some sort of modified form would end up as a most interesting display or a modul. It is among very rare places where much of the original lines charm has been saved. Jädraås does boost itself as small but tourist friendly small hamlet. Still there are a number of modern buildings in the hamlet, the majority of buildings are old workers acommentaions from the days when the blast furnace and the railroad was constructed.


So right now I am down sizing my plans, there was a very nice switching layout in one Gazette in the eighties that could be adopted to my space and theme. I would like to beef it up with another passing track so the town would have a slight feeling of being important town along the line. First Ineed to get some evalution pieces of Peco tracks. My plan is to purchase three turn outs and few pieces of flex. Luckily I ordered and received the largest engine on my fleet first so I can check out both clearences and performance.

Here we see a few photos of the eastern end of the yard near the "new" shop complex. The image to the right shows the now dismanteled main to the town of Ockelbo. The second from left, a view from the shop towards the roundhouse and the engine facilities. Next the road bed of the spur which loope around and in down grade reached the old foundry near the river. On the next you see a red barn like building which actually recent add to the facilities to shelter passanger cars form the elements of the weather. The second from right, the west end or the opposite end of the yard. And finally, the street side of the depot, allthough it seem to be perfect illustration of a dust bin.

Jädraås Shop area


Bob Brown of the Gazette wrote an interesting article in Gazette in the eighties about messing up the layout. Unlike what many modellers usually does, the prototypes keep things organized, depending of future need for parts. Some junk is junk, waiting for disposal. But the preserved old engines and cars does not have any stock parts so I guess some of the junk will stay on the properety a bit longer than in commercial roads, but things are kept organized.

Leaving the yard heading on to west. //// A look on some the equipment on the line. //// More various photos from 2007-07-29 in Jädraås.

Webdesign & Photos: Ollie Ahokas,e-mail: Olliehokas@.yahoo.se.
Copyright © 2007 Olavi Ahokas