Finally updated my website, so I thought I’d share a few pictures of my N scale Pennsy.
An A-B-A set of Alco freight cab units pull a mixed freight through M Interlocking at East Mifflin, PA in July 1956.
A diesel-powered freight rumbles through Lewisport (boy can those Alcos smoke!) while a class L1s 2-8-2 switches some PRR Merchandise Service boxcars at the freight station.
The Duquesne pulled by a newly repainted E8 passes a mixed freight at LEW Interlocking.
One of Pennsy’s Blue Ribbon Fleet passenger trains rolls out of the tunnel and over Jack’s Run past a father teaching his son to fish.
Cool. You have a nice layout in small space. I am adding a 36x80 extension to my 4x8 N scale Thats currently under construction. Good luck with your RR How much more are you planning to do to it? Tim
Dave. That’s a beautiful layout. I especially like the way you use your main road as a scenery divider. Makes the layout look much bigger than it is. Great job!
Thanks for the pics, its good to see a small complete layout every now and then. I didn’t know it was such a small layout from looking at the first few pics. Nice work!
I have to echo Bob Grech’s comments, Dave, your’s is one of the best small layouts I’ve seen on this forum in a long time. It’s scenery is well done, considerable thought seems to have been put into the layout of the terrain and the inclusion of man-made features/structures and, most of all, it is believable in its appearance. Excellent job.
Thanks for the compliments, guys. The layout is actually based on a Model Railroader project layout from the early 90s called the Mowhawk Division built by Lou Sassi and crew. I embellished it a little, but the main features from that project railroad are all here.
trainfreek92 - Plans for now are simply to finish the scenery under the steel grider underpass, add more details like signs, fences, etc., and to finish the coal mine area. Future plans call for some sort of operating scheme.
Bob - Wow, thanks! Compliments from the master… It doesn’t come close to the realism level on your layout, but given how many of your photos I’ve enjoyed, I thought it might be my turn. Of course, I can’t take credit for the road as a divider trick (see above).
YardGoat18 - The door handles (two on each end) are for transporting the layout. It’s not on wheels, but the legs fold and telescope. It can be lifted easily by my wife and I and transported to a show or to my next duty assignment. For interstate moves I have a plywood box I’ve built for it.
Some great photos as always! I haven’t gotten a whole lot done on the layout in the last several weeks, and what I have isn’t that photogenic… Unless you think wiring up torti is exciting… LOL I have done a bit more scenery at the Old Arthur Farm:
Old caboose # C 34 rolls by at the end of a local freight.
Also got the new bridges almost finished. Just need to add some weathering and scenery and it will be done.
But of course! Isn’t it required? It’s offered in 3 scales, fer cryin’ out loud![:)]
Eventually I plan to replace it with a standard Pennsy plan, probably an all-wood design like Banks or View. Lewisport will probably end up with its Walthers tower replaced by a wood-and-brick combo like HUNT. That’s the plan, anyway…[:-^]
Dave Vollmer, in the third picture down on your post I saw something I really liked. The ditch bank along the right-of-way in the foreground looks like a real, grown-up ditch. We see that a lot around here on the railroad, but it is seldom modeled that way. Usually, we modeler’s want nice mown grass and perfection! [:)] Great looking picture!
Anyway, there’s one off beat compliment for the day.
Thanks! I always feel like I never have enough weeds on the ballast edge… In the 1950s, the PRR had just begun to defer maintenace (eventually culminating into thousands of slow-order miles under Penn Central), starting with weed abatement. I try to depict an infrastructure that shows a few years of declining maintenance, but not a complete lack thereof. Pennsy had less cash in the 1950s, but still had lots of pride!
