Brooklawn Circle(s) - Merit gas station pole is the hint of the now missing 2nd circle
The Patk N'Eat (Murphy House) greasy spoon. Looks like a rare crowd tonight.
Timber Creek trestle. I had to curve it to fit.
The PRSL Power Plant closed in 1924 when it became cheaper to get electric from the local power company but in my time warp it is continuing to receive coal into the 1950s and thus generating operating traffic.
Buzby Bros. cement company in Westville. I still need to rebuild the damaged towers.
Station Avenue in Westville with the Mary Jane Florist and Embassy movie theater.
Decker's Mobil on Gateway Blvd/
Texaco refinery in Westville.
Looks like Olive & Broadway has a farmer's market going.
Checkers match on Olive St. in South Westville. Yuk Coke! Where's the Pepsi?
Holloway Lumber just got in some more boards.
Looks like trash/garbage day on Washington Ave. in North Woodbury.
Progress (Is Our Most Important Product) continues.
Ten car trains are running relatively reliably (if I could just keep the Bowser N5c cabins attached to the train ends). We will work our way up to the 25+ coal drags.
The Brooklawn/Timber Creek area received its second pass scenery. I still need to put in power house and Buzby Bros. parking areas. The creek needs to be refinished and work along the banks improved and then the people (figures) need to return.
Westville is back to normal along with part of North Woodbury. South Woodbury is in good shape but Woodbury proper needs a lot of work and the peninsula end needs to be started.
The Glassboro/Thorofare area has parking and trees.
This is a milestone for my Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines layout. (So, I’m excited!) After almost exactly one year, trains are once again running!
I tore apart (and reordered 75% of) the layout in order to get room for 9 tracks of staging - 4 from the Philadelphia side and 5 to serve as the turnaround points for the 3 southbound branches that terminate “at ocean’s edge”. This will enable my operating group to run the complete schedule of trains that the PRSL ran in the early 1950s.
Most of the layout still looks like a combination tornado/earthquake/hurricane hit it but at least the trains are running again.
0:00 We pick up a southbound local in Camden
0:22 Ignore the fact that Philadelphia’s 30th Street station is in the background (out of place but no switching)
0:35 Also ignore the Manayunk bridges
0:50 Back to reality: Timber creek bridge (Brooklawn to Westville)
0:55 Westville
1:00 Texaco refinery in Westville
1:15 North Woodbury
1:25 Meeting the northbound local in the unfinished end piece
1:35 Woodbury
1:50 South Woodbury marshalling yard
1:55 Glassboro (/Thorofare) junction (with lead to South Staging)
2:05 Loop to get up to high line (the North Staging enters at the top)
2:25 The 9 tracks of staging that caused all this trouble
3:00 Meeting the northbound local (behind Camden)
3:20 Back to the Camden Pavonia yard
