Baldwin B12s were the only PRSL diesel yard switchers on
their roster and had long useful lives in southern NJ.
The Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Company sent
their aging steam locomotives to NJ to die, an intermediate
stop on the way to the scrap yard. Here a PRR K4 4-6-2
Pacific takes on coal. In just a few years the water towers
would be torn down, and the coaling towers would become
dilapidated monuments to the bygone age of steam.
WY843 Delivering sand and concrete to Buzby Brothers Cement
PRR H30 Covered Hoppers
WY33 Empty Sand Hog heading south
This is the drops/pickups switch list for WY27 the Millville
Local. We originally ran a standard four-cycle Waybill card
system but as the train sizes grew, the operating crew became
less happy with handling a large stack of cards so I transferred
the card cycles onto a spreadsheet, copied them to a Microsoft
Access database and using SQL generated a switch list for
each train. Now we can handle up to eight waybill cycles for
cars being shipped off line and eventually returning on-line.
WY27 heads south through Westville with time-warped
PRSL GP-38s in the lead.
WY51, the Salem local, passes Broad Street Lake in Woodbury
WY51 working the icing tracks in South Woodbury
WY79, the Tank Sweeper, southbound through Westville
WY79 serving the Texaco refinery in Westville.
Soup’s
On! Or soon
will be. The
Camden local
slides by the
RCA spur to
Campbell
Soup to
deliver
another
cooled load
of local
vegetables.
WY840 is now straggling home with empties. It had to cross
over three tracks in Woodbury to continue right-hand running
back to the yards.
The Millville Local, now designated WY26, drops a loaded
coal car at Barry Bros. Fuel in Westville. Most spurs along the
double-tracked main line are, as on the prototype, conveniently trailing-point sidings.
A box car is used as a spacer to keep the engine's weight off the coal yard's wood trestle.
WY50, the Salem local, returning home to Pavonia Yard.
WY842, the returning Deepwater local, makes a delivery at the Woodbury Bottling Co.
Update: Right On Track Models has produced an accurate laser
model of the Woodbury station. The N Scale
version is now the crowning centerpiece of my layout.
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Merry Christmas! Just remember the "Reason for the Season!"
First snow of the season is cheering up the Christmas season. A first run ConCor RDC (re-lettered for the PRSL) pulls up to the passenger shelter as an old Trix 0-6-0 spots a box car at the local lumber yard. An old Micro-Machines log truck patiently waits to dump it load.
Continuing our “first snow of the season” theme with ancient N scale artifacts. Here is the Camden roundhouse with all first-generation locomotives. The original Atlas Pennsy RS3 is in the far stall while the later Atlas Reading RS3 is in the first stall. Then comes the Trix PRR 0-6-0 B6 switcher, the Bachmann Reading 2-8-0 Consolidated, and the Trix PRR 4-6-2 K4 Pacific.
The fifth stall contains the first Atlas GP30. I have four of them from the collection of Barry Wingard (he provided most of the pictures for the first Greenberg N scale price guide (Dallas Mallerick). He was an avid collector of everything produced in N scale.
On the turntable is the first run Atlas PRR FA1 along with the cut-off Reading FA1 (Bev-Bel???). The ConCor PRR crane in the background would also qualify as first-generation N scale.
At Christmas the serious 1950s freight trans take a break and the display cabinet queens come out to pull the Christmas and special run cars.
So sit back at Olive Street in Westville and watch the Christmas parade trains march by!
