Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Two New ELHS Exclusives
MAITLAND TOWER HO
Maitland Tower
Erie Crossing Shanty
The Maitland Tower kit builds into a model of the tower's initial configuration and can be modified to represent a number of other Erie west end towers. Maitland also broke up the block between Glen Echo and Cold Springs on the Dayton Branch and was used by the DT&I to issue trains orders. This served to extend the tower life more than anything else and remained in service well into the Conrail years. Crossing Shanty not included
Member price $5200
plus $8.95 s&h (US Funds Only)
Non-member price $6500
ERIE CROSSING SHANTY
This kit builds into a model representing crossing shanties located throughout the Erie west end.
Member price $1400
plus $8.95 s&h (US Funds Only)
Member price HO $5000
plus $8.95 s&h
Non-member price $1750
★ ★ STILL AVAILABLE ★ ★ DL&W Vestal, N.Y. Station
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HO $5000 N
Member price $3800 (US Funds Only)
$8.95 s&h Books from
Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Erie Steam Locomotive Diagram Book Book No. 2 (1944)
Erie Passenger Equipment Diagram Book Book No. 76, May 1952
DL&W Locomotive Classificaton Diagram Book Revised July 1st 1939
DL&W Classification of Freight Equipment Corrected to May 1, 1952
Erie Lackawanna Passenger Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 15, Issued Aug. 30, 1966.
Erie Lackawanna Freight Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 78, Updated May 9, 1975
plus $8.95 s&h (US Funds Only) (Book prices are non-member. Please allow 4-6 weeks delivery)
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Between a one industry and one town layout? Perhaps both. This is Brian Pate’s car ferry and associated modules on display at the 2011 Trains Show in Burnaby (Vancouver area), B.C., last fall. The yard lead goes off into the distance and a switcher works the boat and yard. Since we have to crop our layout scenes tightly, this could be a whole model railroad.
than one town. If there is room fine. If not, why not leave all but the main one out? That chunk of metropolis or medi- um-sized city is going to be modeled down by the tracks anyway, so we must be selective with what we do with our scale real estate. This kind of layout is easy to visual-
Non-member price HO $6500
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Erie Waldwick Interlocking Tower HO & N plus
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Non-member price HO $6500 $4800
ize, so let’s go on to time. Besides positioning, the era is the
other key factor in determining what a layout’s urban places (especially) will be like since it affects so much: the equip- ment, industries at trackside, where the layout can be (if at all), operations and facilities. Much of the industrial base of the country east of the Rockies was there or headed there by the time of flivvers, flappers and Prohibition. While it filled in and spread to the West Coast and elsewhere, variations on “Trenton Makes, The World Takes” were and are found from coast to coast. “Things railroad” followed industry. That is why the ICC Valuation Maps are still so useful for track planning even though they date from so long ago. Among other things, depression, war, suburbanization and a global economy held back, eliminated or pushed on rail- roading, as in other aspects of life, but many things did not change much for a long time, then they changed a lot. We live in the “a lot” part. For example, rail operations on the
New York waterfront in 1890 and sixty years later were organically alike in that the freight handling and work was done the same way, even though they used different cars and motive power. Go there now. It doesn’t. It is gone. Pick your harbor: Baltimore, Chicago’s Navy Pier or Lake Calumet Harbor, San Francisco. With a few ex- ceptions, such rail-marine operations
are now found only in history books, old photos, and on several really fine model railroads. Break of bulk has been replaced by containers trans- ferred to trucks or trains. In New York Harbor that mostly happens in New Jersey. It is not just the equipment, ei- ther; it is how the railroad industry op- erates on such waterfronts and its sup- port facilities. What applies to these examples ap-
plies to everything else, but it also of- fers leads for making choices. A lot of small towns no longer have even one rail siding in use, while others still have local freights stopping. This might seem to push the preferred time slot for a layout back in order to get more operation and modeling opportu- nities, and I will admit it does, but “back” might not need to be so long ago. It might not even be “back.” There are so many possibilities when picking the where and when of a rail- road. I just think it is worthwhile to re- consider what the focus of a layout might be and how much of the world can be modeled. It may be that “less” could end up being more, as in more complete for what is being done and more satisfying. Sometimes that “less” can also be transported to the next house or apartment and added onto in a new layout room. To close, none of this even hints at the Someplace Halt layouts/modules/dioramas the British like to build and write about, and as Trevor Marshall once said, tuck next to the jelly cupboard between shows or operating sessions. As I replied to him at the time, maybe we need more jelly cupboards over here. That would get more layouts up and running, and maybe encourage more modelers to ex- plore alternative design ideas.—BILL S. JUNE 2012
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