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From 1987 to May 1989 he built a layout in S scale (see fig. 1) at his then residence at 1097 Boulevard du Cap. At his new location, 971 Boulevard du Cap, the original layout was reduced to 8' x 9' (fig.2).
Denis models his own freelance railroad called dfRAIL. An appropriate uptogreen and white paint scheme is applied to his locomotives and home road rolling stock.
His Modern fictional railroad interchanges with the Canadian National [CN]; the outer loop of his layout (fig.2) is the CN with dfRAIL being represented by the inner loop and the industrial sidings.
Denis's modeling is scale S, and as evidenced by his photos does a fine job of painting and detailing his models.[jm]
Now that I have moved to 1 rue Duchesne, my layout has become three modules operated with Digitrax and run by my computer with Winlok, but the diesels are still equipped with Onboard sound, QUITE A COMBINATION! see NASG Dispatch article of April 1995, Volume XX, Number 2, pp.18-19
Diesel roster consist of two GP38-2Ws in dfRAIL colors and two GP38-2s on order!
dfRAIL's roster,
consists of 4 locomotives, 28 freight cars and 2 cabooses.
S86 (I pretend was bought from CN: in fact #5586 GP38-2W was actually retired by CN in 1986) is a painting done by Robin Ross of Québec City, which a photo was published on the front cover, in NASG Dispatch, April 1995, Volume XX, Number 2, and
S-1 is a photo published on the front cover of NASG Dispatch, April 1994, Volume XVIII, Number 2.
-Here's my control panel!
All this equipment can be seen, by clicking the appropriate number on your left...
Venez visiter mon réseau. Come and visit my layout!
Last updated: March 9 th., 2007. This dfRAIL on the Web page is written, maintained and hosted
by:
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Denis Fortier,
capaigle@netrover.com