PHILADELPHIA DIVISION
Shortly after WWII, ten model railroad enthusiasts decided to start their own club. Founded on February 7, 1946, the club was originally called the Germantown HO Engineers. Their meeting place was on the second floor of a paint store in Germantown, and their first layout was completed in June, 1946. … More...
PHILADELPHIA DIVISION
The Logan Model Engineers are a group of people that share a love of railroading for over 40 years. We get together once a week to try to recreate on a smaller scale the grandeur that once was American railroading. Located in Souderton, PA, Logan Southern Railroad is a fictional railroad … More...
PHILADELPHIA DIVISION
The Schuylkill Valley Model Railroad Club started in 1968, and held its first open house in 1975 and then every year thereafter. The Schuylkill Valley Railroad has a prototypical theme, being modeled after the Reading’s main line from Philadelphia to Reading with many of the towns along that route. There are several points of animation … More...
PHILADELPHIA DIVISION MEMBER
The rugged mountains of Maryland, with their emphasis on coal mining, have long captured his interest. The layout, set in 1950-1954 and earlier, is in two connecting rooms with a swing down bridge. Dimensions are 18 x 23 and 26 x 8. It is a point-to-point, around-the-walls configuration. … More...
PHILADELPHIA DIVISION MEMBER
All PRR Steam in the 1950s. If you like to operate, this layout is concentrated operation! Nicely scenicked. DCC by NCE. Steam Locomotives run over this folded dogbone with branches to a second level. The era is 1952 to 1956. Dispatcher controlled.… More...
PHILADELPHIA DIVISION MEMBER
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PHILADELPHIA DIVISION MEMBER
PHILADELPHIA DIVISION MEMBER
In 2014, I converted this 12 x 24 N scale layout from a freelance railroad to one based on the prototype. A recent trip to North East and Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio convinced me that I wanted an operations oriented railroad, centered on the coal industry. What began as the Maplevale Division of the PRR is now the … More...
