Broad Street (Woodbury) Lake

I took a quarter of the end of the peninsula to try to replicate the Broad Street (Woodbury) Lake section in North Woodbury.

Here is a Bill Lane shot from June 23, 1970 with RDC M409 on the culvert:

And here is my effort to replicate with PRSL RDC M413:

The End of the World

I am coming to the end of my 70% rebuild and it is finally time to attack the peninsula turnback problem.

Turnbacks are always a problem to hide so most times you are forced to go to a hill or mountain to hide/break up the non-prototypical 180-270 degree curve. Then there is the issue of keeping your expensive engines and cars off the floor. With only an inch or two to work with you need to create barrier between the “end of the world” and the floor.

I decided to make as much of a Sculptamold rise as I could in the limited space. So I got a roll of duct tape and taped it to the end of the 5/8” plywood and then bent it back on itself so it wouldn’t stick to the Sculptamold (and to make it sturdier).

When that was in place, I added bottle fir trees to the outer edge. Their wire frames are definitely sturdy enough to bounce the cars back onto the layout if the ridge itself doesn’t stop them.

K4s on Freight Trains

Someone on the PRSL Historical Society asked whether PRR K4s ever ran in freight service.

Another member posted a photo from Don Ball's Pennsylvania RR book showing one in action in Maple Shade, NJ. It was led by the PRR's lone red Baldwin VO-1000.

I loved the photo so I tried to recreate it on my N scale layout. Atlas manufactured the red 5916 and it is a fine model. I used a no longer running Mini Trix K4 to complete the set-up. I couldn't find my MoPac hopper so I substituted a PRR H30 covered hopper.

Time to Check In!

It has been 8 years and 225 posts since I started this blog at the suggestion of a friend and the view counts have been healthy but I wonder if 99% of them aren't web crawlers.

So if there are any real readers out there please leave a comment below and why you bother reading my ramblings:

• You like the real Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines
• You are a friend I forced to read it
• You are looking for ideas
• Nothing better to do
• You found it through N Scale Magazine
• ...

P.S. I sent in a "tip" on storing trains to the on-line Model Railroad Hobbyist Magazine and they turned it into 7 pages so please forgive my sloppy English, I didn't expect it to become an article.

And if you read it please give the article a higher than normal rating because of my good looks. (My wife could not recognize me in the magazine photo.)

The real me. Where did all my hair go?

P.S.S. The last 2 areas needing first pass scenery (Sculptamold and paint)

The end of the peninsula.  Turnbacks alway create a challenge to hide. (You also usually need to provide a barrier to keep the trains from changing from outbound to floorbound.)

Woodbury Lake (actually prototypical) will occupy the right side (framed by tree slopes).

Except for the track curvature this is also prototypical for just beyond the Woodbury Station

This end of North Woodbury is not so prototypical but the scenery does need to blend (Doesn't it?)

The Glassboro loop is mythical but is needed to get altitude to complete the mainline return.
The scenery will attempt to hide the access hole and the ugly pole lamp.