Photos – HO Main Layout – 2017 – June – STEAM Tour

On June 13, 2017 students from the Barre City Middle School visited the NWV. A dozen students from Mr. Shane Aldrich’s 7th and 8th grade STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) class participated in a full operating session on the NWV, where they learned about operating under dispatcher control and using the NWV’s waybill system to control car movements like on a real railroad.

Back home, the students built an impressive 16×4 foot HO-scale layout at their school. The layout was built as a STEAM project in Mr. Aldrich’s classroom over the winter and featured complete scenery depicting central Vermont. That layout was also featured in an article in the Times Argus newspaper on April 18, 2017. They displayed their layout at the NWV’s Vermont Rails show at the Barre Auditorium on November 18, 2017.

Here are photos from that session, we apologize that they are a bit fuzzy, but everyone had a good time!

Their fearless teacher, Mr. Aldrich, looms large over the bluff at Glenn’s Bridge in Evergreen while an unsuspecting freight train travels in the valley below.

Guiding a freight through Armstrong.

Mr. Allard instructs on the fine points of model railroading!

She’ll be comin’ round the mountain…!

No operating session would be complete without running the NWV yellow wheat train, A.K.A. “the Yellow Snake Train”

Doing some switching in Plainfield.

Anxious anticipation of Amtrak emerging from the tunnel for arrival at the Evergreen station!