Model Railroading > Delaware Valley Traction Project Completed

The relocation of the car storage yard, freight loading dock, station, and terminal loop has been completed.
1. The finished project with all track ballasted, scenery elements in place, and overhead wire hung.
2. Stan and Fred handle the freight for Bucks County Electric express motor No. 5.
3. Inbound East Penn car No. 123 entering the street trackage.

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4. The new yard is full.
5. Passengers waiting to board newly arrived PTC 5201 for their outbound trip to New Hope.
6. PTC 5201 at the station.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/17 15:14 by birdman.

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EXCELLENT!!!

Looks great!

- Jeff Carlson

Man, that was fast! Great job. More pics please.

ChrisCampi Wrote:
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> Man, that was fast! Great job. More pics please.

The project took about three weeks.  I didn't post the first set of photos until after I had been working on it for a few days.  I'm retired and was able to spend 4-5 hours almost every day working on it.  The project area where the rebuild took place is about 30 square feet in size.  Things go quickly working in 1/2 inch scale.  Of course, scratch-building a trolley car or interurban is a different story.  That could take months.  If you look closely, you can see that I am definitely not a fine scale modeler like TR member Warren Preis.  I am in awe of people who can do the kind of work that he does in 1/2 inch scale. I subscribe to the "good enough for me; then, let the cars loose to run" school of modeling. 

...and, you have time to go trackside to post 1:1 photos as frequently seen on the Eastern discussion board.

boejoe Wrote:
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> ...and, you have time to go trackside to post 1:1
> photos as frequently seen on the Eastern
> discussion board.

Fortunately, for the rebuild, we have had a lot of days where the weather has not been very good for photography which kept me in the basement. On the couple of days that I was able to get trackside, I was only out and about for an hour or two each time.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/20/17 07:50 by birdman.

Excellent job with the rebuild - change can be hard but you make it look easy and expected.  Kudos!!

~RGDave

"I subscribe to the "good enough for me; then, let the cars loose to run" school of modeling. "

Holy S**t! If that is just good enough, I would hate to see anything less. Fantastic work. Everytime you post I have to look. Is there a post of the trackplan anywhere?

CPRR Wrote:
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> "I subscribe to the "good enough for me; then, let
> the cars loose to run" school of modeling. "
>
> Holy S**t! If that is just good enough, I would
> hate to see anything less. Fantastic work.
> Everytime you post I have to look. Is there a post
> of the trackplan anywhere?

No, but I'll work on that for a future update and post.  

Dick,

As always, it looks great.  It seems that every time you do something, it turns out better than before.  I particularly like that shot through the archway.

Best regards,

Warren Weiss

I apologize Warren for mispelling your name.