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Open Houses
Scheduled for: Saturday, November 11, 2023
Click
HERE for an overview map of all
locations open today.
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DELAWARE &
SUSQUEHANNA MODEL RR CLUB
HO
535 Station Avenue Haddon Heights, NJ 08035 2:00
pm - 6:00 pm |
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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. |
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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. |
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CHRIS
JONES
HO
1605
Autumn Drive
Franklinville NJ 08322
10:00 am - 4:00 pm |
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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". |
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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". |
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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. |
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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. |
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MICHAEL JUNOD
O
207
Windsor Avenue
Southampton, PA 18966
Noon - 4:00 pm |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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MATT BARTKOWSKI
O
1183 Valley Road
Hockessin, DE 19707
5:00
pm - 7:00 pm |
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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. |
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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.” |
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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.
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RAYMOND
STINSMAN
HO, HOn30
R&R Steel Division
3911
Boteler Road
Mt. Airy, MD 21771
10:30 am - 4:00 pm |
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