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Friday 7:00-10:00	Herb Gishlick	HO	Keeler Rail Systems CTC80
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The Windsor Railroad is a 27’ x 23’ modern era layout that concentrates on inter-modal trains and commuter service in the NJ/NY area. The scenery is more than 90% complete. The layout has very nice backdrops and beautiful fall scenery with many rural, suburban, and urban scenes that are typical of central and northern NJ. It was featured in SCALE RAILS, Feb, 2006 and in MODEL RAILROADER, Aug, 2006  http://www.phillynmra.org/HomeLayouts/NJDiv_Layouts/HerbGishlick.html

Friday 7:00-10:00	Bob Jans	HO	NCE DCC
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The PRR Mountain Division is a 25’ x 25’ double deck layout with a 4 track helix and 70% of the scenery completed. The mountain scenery, with its gorges and many bridges, disguises the double deck design. The layout has almost 500 ft of mainline trackage including a free-lanced secondary double track PRR mainline following the route of the PA Turnpike from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh and a single track B&O mainline from Hancock, MD to Connelsville, PA. The B&O interchanges with the PRR at the towns of Somerset and Bedford, PA. Also modeled is a WM mining branch with trackage rights on the B&O.

Friday 7:00-10:00	Ray Machler	O	Digitrax DCC
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The PRR Schuylkill Valley RR is a 60’ x 30’multi-level (would you believe 5 levels?!!) O scale layout. Ray models the Schuylkill Valley Branch of the PRR from the 52nd St freight yard to the connection with the Lehigh Valley interchange at New Boston. The layout is set in 1950 with about 30% of the scenery completed. Ray is currently working on a car card routing system.

Friday 7:00-10:00	Rick Spano	N	Digitrax DCC
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The Sceniced and Undecided Rwy is a 42’ x 26’ N scale layout with about 98% of the scenery completed. In the 1980’s BN, CP Rail, CN, and BC Rail diesels (and S&U steam engines) haul unit trains of coal, grain, sulfur, iron ore, wood chips, etc. across the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada to the ports of the West Coast and to the ports and steel mills of the Great Lakes. Scenery and animation are the hallmarks of the S&U, where operating mines, cranes, excavators, rotary car-dumpers, Huletts, factory assembly lines, trucks, buses and fireworks are some of the many animated devices that can be seen along harbors, towns, cities, rivers and mountainous terrain with numerous tunnels and more than two dozen bridges and trestles. The S&U has been featured in Model Railroader (May 1980), Great Model Railroads 1999, N Scale Railroading (May/June 2002 and Nov/Dec 2006), and Kalmbach Layout Video Tour #4.

http://scenicedandundecided.net http://www.njdivnmra.org/Layouts.html  http://www.phillynmra.org/HomeLayouts/NJDiv_Layouts/Spano.html

Friday 7:00-10:00	Steve Staffieri	HO	Digitrax DCC
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The PRR Elmira Branch is a 40’ x 28’ around-the-wall layout with three large peninsulas and is about 70% sceniced. It is a point to point railroad set in the time period around 1948. The railroad starts in Newberry/Williamsport PA and winds through to Southport NY with a branch to Sodus Point. The Susquehanna and New York RR has a branch from Newberry to Towanda PA (modelers license gave the S&NY another 8 years of life). There are two large staging yards and two full service yards. With the exception of three switches all 126 switches are hand thrown using a unique throw system. The railroad uses mostly brass steam (many with sound, hope you like I-1s!), with a few first generation diesels.