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
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