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My layout is called the Pennsylvania & Western
and runs around the walls of a 28x52 foot basement room. It is designed
so that prototype railroad operations can be duplicated. To that end,
the mainline is 5 scale miles long (550 feet) and there are a total of 20
staging tracks (most in a separate adjoining room) to provide a place for
trains to come from and go to. Feel free to visit my web site (http://i.am/pennwest)
for much more information.
The Pennsylvania & Western recently expanded
its coal service with the addition of a new heavy freight engine, class N1s,
and a new order of hopper cars. Below are three photos of the new cars
rounding Horseshoe Curve on the way west to the mines. The quantity of cars
required a shove from a pair of I1s "snappers". The 30 drive
wheels on those 3 locos made short work of that train!
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