PRR's famous "Dark & Lonely", officially the Downingtown and Lancaster RR , thru Lancaster & Chester counties, PA could be modeled with freight action and one diesel powered BROADWAY LIMITED passenger set. On the evening of Nov 1st, 1970, PC re-routed the BROADWAY over the D & L, because they dumped a freight train in what is now my back yard,( LEAMAN JUNCTION ) at prox 1030 that Sunday morning. The wreck tore out the two remaining tracks, the catenary, signals, etc. They were 'caught" attempting to bury brand new 1970 FORDS, destroyed in the accident on a neighbors property. The neighbor took offense to that action. I am told there are still car parts, axels, etc along the bank on the north side of the tracks. Sounds like a modeling opportunity. BTW, the remainder of the D & L was massively rebuilt by CONRAIL now has welded rail on most, if not all of it. Jim "livin' on the PENNSY Main" Lyle In a message dated 3/2/2011 12:34:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
--- In [email protected], Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote: > I don't think that funerals are necessary if you model the SP. > Although the GS-4 was a "long ago"brass import, they appear on E->bay >frequently. And GS steam locos are also not absolutely necessary to model the SP. A mid 1950's era branch line like the Santa Cruz could be modeled completely prototypically with 4 plastic GP9's and 2 cupola cabooses. I would not be surprised to find that GS streamliners never set foot on the branch although I did see an SD45 and a tunnelmotor over here in later years, and today all one needs is one old GP20 and a few freight cars to be correct. Most modelers don't have the space for a convincing representation of mainline operations anyway so smaller locos and shorter trains simplifies the design decisions.....dave ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
