Dave,
Do you have pictures?
I'm in the planning stages for the Pennsyltucky RR which will be
interchanging with a narrow gauge also based on the EBT.
Any suggestions before I plan myself into real trouble would be appreciated.
thanks
Carey
Carey Probst
Member, M.I.T. Educational Council
S Scale, Sn3 and S High Rail/AF
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On 12/16/2011 7:25 PM, David Heine wrote:
>
> Roy,
>
> I don't actually model the EBT, but my layout is strongly influenced
> by it,
> and I do have models of some of the equipment lettered for my own Lehigh &
> Western. My standard/3' interchange yard, currently under construction, at
> Lehigh is dual gauge and has a coal washing/sizing plant, so it has
> some Mt.
> Union influences. I even have a BTS kit (unfortunately currently unbuilt)
> of EBT #6 to switch there. My model of Orbisonia station (built from the
> BTS kit) will be at a division point yard with shops, etc. (think
> Orbisonia).
>
> Like you, I still have some stand-in hoppers built from HO cars that date
> from before the BTS kits. And I still have some Chicago Express boxcar
> kits
> to build, which again predate the BTS kits.
>
> If I modeled only the EBT, I would have to model it in earlier times so I
> could have more wooden equipment. I wanted a railroad that had both coal
> and the wood industries. Actually today, the wood industries (logging,
> lumber, tanneries using hemlock bark, wood chemical industry) are more
> important to me than the coal. So I'm sort of modeling a hybrid of the EBT
> and the Tionesta Valley. Actually, if I had to pick one railroad to model,
> it would probably be the TV, but that would not be easy to do in Sn3.
> Besides my freelance approach lets me include all the locomotives and
> rolling stock that strikes my fancy, including that from the "western"
> railroads. After all some of their equipment was built by Baldwin in
> Philadelphia/Eddystone, Billmeyer & Small in York, and Jackson & Sharp in
> Wilmington, Delaware.
>
> Dave Heine
> Easton, PA
>
> <snip>
>
> Besides Lee Rainey and myself, is anyone else modeling the EBT in S?
>
> Roy Hoffman
>
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