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Railroad Prototype Modelers Greensburg, Pennsylvania
REPORTING/Bill Schaumburg, photographs by the author PRR
498076 The variety of models at an RPM meet is one of the reasons they are so much fun to att end. Den- nis Lippert showed an R-T-R, HO-scale Bowser car in PRR sand service with added piping, Code 88 wheels, Kadee 153 couplers, and weather- ing. He also did a talk on Conrail 50-foot boxcars.
B&O
XM4785 Bill Hanley built this HO Westerfi eld kit, which represents a car rebuilt to supply ice for caboose and locomoti ve coolers at terminals. Two B&O cars were wrecked by Fruit Growers Express, and these were the replacements.
Judging by the weather in most
of the North Central and North- eastern United States, the end of March really wasn’t spring, no matter what the calendar said. Motorists could not throw their ice scrapers and snow brushes in the trunk to be forgotten for another year, and people left their light cot- ton jackets on hangers for a while longer. Nobody remembered what the groundhog saw. They only saw more winter. Model railroaders,
however, had a bet- ter deal (as we often do), one that definite- ly marked the onset of spring: the annual Railroad Prototype Modelers—East meet in Greensburg, Penn- sylvania, on March 27–28, with operat- ing sessions the eve- ning before and lay-
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out open houses on Sunday. This event has been alternating between Malvern, Pennsylvania, just out- side of Philadelphia, and Greens- burg, 30 miles east of Pittsburgh, for several years. While many an- nual “prototype meets” are held at the same time of the year and at the same venues, and they are a great success, the every-other-year format works well for this par- ticular group. It keeps everything
fresh, no one gets burned out, and it allows local modelers who open their layouts to make serious progress without being stressed because company is coming. It also allows time for presenters to develop new material and gives committees a chance to find new speakers. Being at opposite ends of Pennsylvania also provides added variety at these gatherings. Those who come appreciate it.
RAILROAD PROTOTYPE MODELERS
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