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Open Houses Scheduled for:
Saturday, November 11, 2023

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DELAWARE & SUSQUEHANNA MODEL RR CLUB     HO  
535 Station Avenue 
Haddon Heights, NJ 08035
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

MIKE MCNAMARA     HO
Northeast Kingdom RR
58 Stoneham Drive
Delran, NJ 08075
11:00 am
- 4:30 pm

Mike's layout features the Maine Central, Boston & Maine, Canadian Pacific and short line Lamoille Valley in upper Vermont and New Hampshire in October 1980. The 19’ x 40’ layout is 90% sceniced and features Digitrax DCC.


STEVE MOYLAN     HO
Oak Valley RR
835 Vermont Avenue
Deptford, NJ 08096
Noon
- 5:00 pm

Steve Moylan's Oak Valley PRR layout is a Digitrax controlled, steam/diesel transition layout set in Eastern PA with local Deptford community names. The layout scenery is complete and highly detailed. On the layout, PRR interchanges with Lehigh Valley and Reading, and has numerous staging tracks.

 

CHRIS JONES HO 
1605 Autumn Drive
Franklinville NJ 08322
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
 

RICK SPANO     N
The Sceniced and Undecided Railroad
7 Heather Drive
Ewing, NJ 08638
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The N scale S&U Rwy is built around a 45' X 28' basement with CP Rail, CN, BC Rail, and BN running through Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. The layout features mountains, farms, industrial areas, a large steel mill, a large city, many ports, rivers and waterfalls. It has operating mines, dumpers, cranes, excavators and fireworks. It was featured in 1999 "Great Model Railroads" and Nov-Dec 2006 "N Scale Railroading".


BOB JANS     HO 
PRR Cumberland Division

39 Cedar Circle
Newville, PA 17241
Noon - 3:00 pm

Bob's layout is PRR with B & O trackage rights based on the proposed route of the South Penn RR from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. Free-lanced, staging loop to staging loop, multi-decked layout with a 3-track helix to allow continuous running. Many scenes are re-constructed from previous layout including a "working thunderstorm".


GREEN RIDGE & BIG SPRING RR CLUB   HO    
210 Big Spring Road (Green Ridge Village)
Newville, PA 17241
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The layout is based on the Cumberland Valley RR in the1950's with the names of the towns served (Carlisle, Oakville, etc.). It is a rectangle with three peninsulas and two levels connected by a 3% grade and has 1,472' of a two track main with folded loops. Most scenes are rural with the background walls painted by a commercial artist.


JIM RICHARDS     HO 
Susquehanna and Jersey Railroad
35 Cedar Circle
Newville, PA 17241
Noon - 3:00 pm

Jim's layout is a free lanced, point to point line in the steam/diesel transition era with emphasis on appropriate structures most of which are fine scale kit-built, kit-bashed, or scratch-built.


MICHAEL JUNOD     O 
207 Windsor Avenue
Southampton, PA 18966
Noon - 4:00 pm
 

CHRIS SAPORITO     HO 
Pennsylvania Railroad - Kinzua Region

813 Kurtz Mill Road (PA Route 568)
Mohnton, PA 19540
11:00 am - 4:30 pm

The Kinzua Region layout is a continuous run, two track mainline and a branch line that serves the round house and diesel servicing. The main industry trackside is an oil refinery and a TOFC terminal. 95% of all turnouts are solenoid switch machines that are wired remotely. The railroad has a manual PRR position light signal system with no automated blocks. It is an autumn setting in the steam/diesel transition era.

 

DAVE WEBER     G INDOOR, GARDEN   Weather Permitting!
TJ Loop Railroad, Southern Pacific Mojave Sub  
76 Carriage Circle
Oley, PA   19547
10:00 am - 4:00 pm 

The Mojave Subdivision operates in the year 1994, the last full year of operations under the Southern Pacific, and Santa Fe flags. The RR  features the Mojave Sub from Monolith outside of Tehachapi to Caliente, highlighting iconic spots such as Bealville Crossing and Cliff, Woodford Siding, and of course the famous Tehachapi Loop, along with the town of Tehachapi and the Monolith Cement Plant.

 

BOB BUCKLEW     HO
Quaker Valley Railroad
18 Fawn Drive
Shillington, PA 19607
11:00 am - 4:30 pm

The Quaker Valley Railroad is a freelanced short line railroad operating in Western PA in 1977. The layout includes a double track Conrail main line and B&O traffic. The QV operates on NCE DCC and Wi-Fi throttles. It is controlled by a JMRI CTC panel featuring virtual signals. Scenery includes an operating rotary dumper.


CARL HUTH     HO
The Reading Lines

117 Walls Way
Bear, DE 19701
Noon - 4:00 pm

Carl's "Reading Lines" is a large HO railroad modeling a portion of the Main Line between Pottsville Pa. and Philadelphia Pa. Other branch lines are: Allentown Pa. to Rutherford Pa and Pottsville Pa. to Newberry Yard. The time frame is from 1950 to 1976, mostly diesels, DCC control, some scenery, and operating signals.


JOE WALTERS, MMR     HO
840 North Gwynn Court
The Northeast Lines
Bear, DE 19701
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Joe's Northeast Lines is an Proto Freelanced Short line that operates from Pittsburgh, Pa. to Cincinnati, Ohio. It is an operating model railroad, that uses card waybill for train movement. The railroad uses Easy DCC with locomotives having sound. Scenery is 80% done. 27 Trains are operated in a three hour session.


MATT BARTKOWSKI     O
1183 Valley Road
Hockessin, DE 19707
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

DAVID GUESSFORD    HO
Baltimore and Ohio
237 Green Giant Road
Townsend, DE 19734
Noon - 5:00 pm

David's railroad represents the B&O from Baltimore to Connellsville with some branches to Ridgley, Hagerstown, and Johnstown. The railroad is powered using Digitrax. Construction began in 2016.


ED KUSNER   HO
Delaware Lackawanna & Western
303 Walden Road
Wilmington DE 19803

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Ed's layout represents the Lackawanna Railroad in the early 1950s, when both steam and diesel locomotives were being used and depicts in many ways what life was like in the 1950s.”

 

PAUL JANN     O
32 Falcon Court
Wilmington, DE 19808
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Paul Jann’s layout is 10 X 38 ft and has 3 levels. It can operate 9-10 trains simultaneously using Lionel TMCC, including passenger, freight, and logging. It also has numerous operating accessories with activation buttons for visitors.


RAYMOND STINSMAN   HO, HOn30
R&R Steel Division
3911 Boteler Road
Mt. Airy, MD 21771
10:30 am - 4:00 pm