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Post by keystonecrossings on May 7, 2012 4:27:25 GMT -8
If you're modeling the Pennsy, how about a shout out? What scale, what era, proto or freelance, link to web site, etc. I'm modeling the Middle Division in the 1950s in HO. Focus is on main line at Lewistown, the Lewistown Secondary, and the Milroy Secondary. S&L will be represented via staging. Blog: jbritton.pennsyrr.comSPF!  |
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Post by riggelweg on May 7, 2012 17:57:59 GMT -8
I can't say that I model the Pennsy, but I am planning a layout that will include a portion of the Pennsy's Schuylkill Branch. I'm still in the planning stage, just gathering information. I can't seem to find much on it.
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Post by Rockin' Rick on May 8, 2012 7:20:00 GMT -8
Trying (operative word) to model PRR ca
1955-56, early Shadow Key era when a lot of Circle Key was still around. Not enough room for a layout but am acquiring/building equipment as budget and time permit. Looking to protolance as far as location, or maybe the C&P around Hudson OH or P&Eup around Renovo.
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Post by keystonecrossings on May 8, 2012 7:24:00 GMT -8
Trying (operative word) to model PRR ca 1955-56, early Shadow Key era when a lot of Circle Key was still around. Not enough room for a layout but am acquiring/building equipment as budget and time permit. Looking to protolance as far as location, or maybe the C&P around Hudson OH or P&Eup around Renovo. Renovo has some cool possibilities. Justifies the yard and loco facility. Beyond that you could simulate any number of coal branches, if that's your thing. |
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Post by Rockin' Rick on May 14, 2012 14:47:19 GMT -8
Jerry I'm also very intrigued by what Ted Garner has done, and recently stumbled across his trackplan that was published in MR. His towns may be fictitious but everything is PRR to a T. The plan pretty much includes everything I want to do and would fit in the train room I'm planning for my retirement home ;D
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Post by pappy on May 14, 2012 17:41:30 GMT -8
I'm doing Pennsy in HO. I just started back up after the grand-kids got interested in Thomas. I was a closet modeler back in the mid 90's but with teenagers and upcoming college I sold all my Bowser kits. I'm planning on modeling a coal branch the early 50's. I started some bench work but just recently tore it down because were planning on relocating to North Carolina to be closer to the grand-kids (they moved last fall).
BLI is hurting me with all its offerings, I just picked up 2 T1’s (yea...a little out of place for the era and coal branch but they are my favorite) which came in and went straight into a packing box. I’m also planning on getting 2 M1’s, another I1, a K4 (or 2?), and a couple H10’s. The only good thing is that with moving I don’t need the funds for other stuff like bench work, track, or scenery… ;D
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Post by calzephyr on May 14, 2012 19:51:16 GMT -8
If you're modeling the Pennsy, how about a shout out? What scale, what era, proto or freelance, link to web site, etc. I'm modeling the Middle Division in the 1950s in HO. Focus is on main line at Lewistown, the Lewistown Secondary, and the Milroy Secondary. S&L will be represented via staging. Blog: jbritton.pennsyrr.comSPF! I collect Pennsy HO models having watched the PRR on the St. Louis mainline in Effingham Illinois, but not active in building a layout. Larry |
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Post by Rockin' Rick on May 18, 2012 5:09:39 GMT -8
Pappy you and I are on much the same beam here, you're a few years ahead of me with the NC move though, I've got about 4 years to go. That's the biggest reason I haven't started a layout, that and the fact I just don't have enough room. Looking to maybe do a diorama to get my chops back though.
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Post by riggelweg on May 21, 2012 4:26:43 GMT -8
Well, I figured out why I've had trouble finding information on the Pennsy's Schuylkill Branch. I guess not much has been written about it, but I did find this book by Benjamin Bernhart, who is a historian of the Reading Co.: www.amazon.com/Pennsylvania-Railroad-Schuylkill-River-Valley/dp/B000KSZCNCPennsylvania Railroad in the Schuylkill River Valley: the Story of the PRR's Schuylkill DivisionFrom the link: Late in the 19th Century the PRR decided to invade the territory of the Reading Railroad. A line was assembled running from Philadelphia to Reading and Pottsville. This, the establishment of the Schuylkill Division, gave PRR access to the heavy industries along the Schuylkill River. This area and its connections to the anthracite region had largely been the province of the Reading. The 90 miles of the division essentially paralleled the Reading along the division's entire length. It would be an understatement to say that strained relations between the two roads resulted. The opening chapter of Bernhart's book explains why PRR president George Roberts pushed for and constructed the branch. Successive chapters discuss the line's history in different geographical areas, and the detail of freight and passenger operations along the Division. Other than David Messer's Triumph III, very little has been written and published about the Schuylkill River Division and its workings in the shadow of the Reading. Anyone have any knowledge of this book, or David Messer's Triumph III? The Triumph III book looks really interesting. |
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Post by calzephyr on May 23, 2012 11:20:57 GMT -8
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Post by jamesbrodie67281 on Oct 22, 2013 8:48:18 GMT -8
Reading the MTH catalogue and the detail been put into their Premium models and a very good article on PRR catenary and the new scale GG1 electric loco which I have ordered a 40s to 50s version in green with five stripes along the side then when the railway pension allows will go in for a brown version to match the PRR coaches of the same colour. Need to wear my optivisors so I can read the railroad map of the PRR and see which other railroads I can legitimately run alongside. The write up for the new GG1 models says you can get scale wheeled scale lengthed versions and they will pick up the juice from the overhead wires via their pantographs. I'm converted so please add me to the list of PRR modellers.
0 gauge 2 rail and overhead supply electrics.
Not going to shew the bare baseboards or even the unballasted first circuit but once the scenery gets started am sure I shall have plenty of questions to ask about PRR practices and guidance.
James
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