Hi all, I grew up on the PRR (if I was good, my grandfather would drive the 15 minutes to North Philadelphia station Sundays after church so I could watch the trains.) My grandmother's church travel group did their summer trips by train, so I've been on the City of LA, The North Coast Limited, The Mainstreeter (28 hours late into Chicago!) The City of SF, The Daylight, The General, The Admiral, The Southern Crescent, and the Silver Star (the name of the NYG-Montreal train escapes me, but it was D&H motive power in Montreal). But never the Broadway. I've had cab rides in a GG1, the original GE Metroliner, an ex-PRR E8 (Iron Mountain in MO), and finally, did a "hand on the throttle" on the Essex Steam Train. Used to ride steam trips through STL when I got the chance, and did the 25th anniversary of NS steam. I've had model trains since I was 5. Never had room for a permanent layout until now, but I collected equipment galore, and my best friend from college is in the model RR business. For Father's day last year, my wife and son told me to build the layout of my dreams. He built the table, and she's taken over scenic design. Now I am busy designing the Anachronistic, Ambitious, and I Don't Care. It started from the Kato Salt Lake Route (trackage I actually rode on). Unfortunately, it will never see light outside my basement-it's too big. I'll post pictures once we get the wires dropped through the benchwork. I like to watch them run, so I have all passenger equipment, and an eclectic mixture of passenger equipment, mostly Kato these days, so I will have GG-1s, E8's, GS-4, FEF-3, P42s, a PA/PB pair and an AEM-7 pulling my PRR, UP, and SP equipment. That's the Anachronistic part. Ambitious? I'm re-equipping most of my equipment with DCC and sound as I can afford it, with the ultimate goal of having JMRI control. I'm going to have lots of questions... Thanks everyone!
Sounds like you know what you are doing and have a layout well underway. Kato doesn't make all those models in HO, so I'm assuming your layout is N scale. Could the Montreal train have been the Montreal Limited? D&H also had the daytime Laurentian on the same route. I am not an East Coast modeler, so I just looked those up on the internet and they seem like they could be correct.
Welcome to trainboard. If you've got questions you've come to the right place. I grew up in Bucks County.
Hey, BGG1, I Like It!!!! Please show us your plan, if documented, with industries, engine facilities, etc. That cutout smells like a table...steam???? Do you visualize catenary, even hot-wire? Personally I love juice-jacks, but that's just me. What you show us is fantastic. Keep it coming, friend.
