The Fort Pitt HiRailers were invited to set up our modular layout at the Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show at the Convention Center in Pittsburgh. The layout set-up is 18' x 68' and is located in the portion of the hall that is cantilevered over 10th Street just at the edge of the river. Here are some photos from Saturday 2/28. If you live in the area, stop by & say hello.
Our layout & view looking at the NS (former CR, PC, PRR, P.FtW.&C.) Fort Wayne bridge over the Allegheny River. This is NS's mainline to Chicago-View is RR west.
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Small Bridge/ Big Bridge
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Junior Club Member "Skippy" lubes some wheels.
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TV200 heads east on track #4, but wait a second. Better get the signal maintainers out there---the WB signal on track #4 is giving a clear indication!
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Mike CT demonstrates his turn-table
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And if 1:48 scale isn't good enough:
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Plug: Come to the NMRA Div. 2 Jamboree on March 21st at Robert Morris-Sewel Center. Mike and I will be giving a clinic on this turntable project construction and detailing.
Saturday was crowded
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Junior Club member "Skippy" feels the need to
re-define hi-rail and blaspheme prototypical modeling each show by running at least one ridiculous train or engine consist. Yesterday's edition was a 69-car double-stack-coal-mixed freight-roadrailer concoction powered by doubleheading PRR M1/NKP Berk steam locomotives.
Head end:
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Same train:
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Who could have been at the throttle for this little incident? Let's see, steam engines rear-ending road-railers, which, until about 45 seconds before impact, had been coupled to the train the steam engines were pulling......Hmmm...
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Our view as NS 18G (Conway to Oak Island) heads east across the Allegheny River on its way to Oak Island yard in Newark, NJ. This train had been working across the river at Island Ave. yard, before continuing east. The train is light today at ~4700 tons, so it takes the main-line from here to Johnstown (CONPIT). On days when tonnage is higher, 18G often takes the less-steep Conemaugh line east to avoid the grades (and helpers) on the main line between Pittsburgh and Johnstown.
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