Model Train Journal

Happy Friday!

Some postwar layout memories -











NS SD80MAC 7205 (ex CR 4109) leads 35A westbound through Duncannon, PA on the eastern end of the Pittsburgh line.


With the sun just rising above the mountains, a trio of NS GE helpers grind upgrade w/ 236 through Northfork, WV on the Pokey.



NS ET44AC 3665 ducks under the new signals at Keystone, WV as it leads 194 eastbound on the Pokey


NS Dash-840C 8717 awaits the scrappers torch at Cresson Steel, in Cresson, PA


NS 16T heads through Shawsville, VA on the Christiansburg District w/ the N&W heritage unit leading on home rails

An interesting variation on ties.

The black & white photo with the Berkshire reminds me of pictures one would see in the late 40s early 50s in Model Builder or Toy Trains magazines.

The kids were in town and we headed to Station Square in Pittsburgh. We caught the Monongahela Incline (funicular railroad) up to Mt. Washington.

Here's a double-stack train passing under the incline while we ascend.





A little bit about the incline.



George

CSX 335 (AC44CW) on the point at Highfield, reaching the summit at the junction of the Dutch Line and the Old Mainline, both formerly Western Maryland:



Cropped from an iPhone6 shot by my daughter.

Healey

MODEL BUILDER DEC 1939 With Yankee Great Joe Dimaggio on the front cover with a Lionel 700E