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Date: 12/04/16 15:17
Football and Model trains
Author: DKay

Just watching the Steelers V Giants on TV  down here in Australia.Commentators just mentioned a huge model railroad in downtown Pittsburg.
Am not familiar with this club/museum.
Any info appreciated.
Regards,Daryl Kay
 

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Date: 12/04/16 16:14
Re: Football and Model trains
Author: santafedan

It is at the science museum.  A large Lionel layout.

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Date: 12/04/16 17:11
Re: Football and Model trains
Author: bigkidpgh

It was the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum - very cool place. If you're ever in the Pittsburgh area it's a must see. Go Stillers!

http://wpmrm.org/

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Date: 12/04/16 20:09
Re: Football and Model trains
Author: RuleG

Neither are located in Downtown Pittsburgh.

The Minature Railroad & Village is at the Carnegie Science Center which is located across the Allegheny River from Downtown Pittsburgh.  Here is a link with more information:

Minature Railroad & Village

The Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum is located in Gibsonia, a northern suburb of Pittsburgh.

Both are worth visiting.

 

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Date: 12/04/16 21:26
Re: Football and Model trains
Author: RayH

DKay Wrote:
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> Just watching the Steelers V Giants on TV  down
> here in Australia.Commentators just mentioned a
> huge model railroad in downtown Pittsburg.
> Am not familiar with this club/museum.
> Any info appreciated.
> Regards,Daryl Kay
>  

THAT was the highlight of the broadcast...

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Date: 12/05/16 04:43
Re: Football and Model trains
Author: WrongWayMurphy

I thought maybe you were referring to this train on the way to the Super Bowl in Houston

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Date: 12/05/16 11:29
Re: Football and Model trains
Author: DKay

Now you're talkin Shane.
Regards,dK

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Date: 12/05/16 20:17
Re: Football and Model trains
Author: jberlin

A few more pix of the Western PA Model Railroad Museum in Gibsonia PA.  Photo 1 - the scene highlighted on TV is of the downtown Pittsburgh area.  Photo 2 - along the Monongahela River valley.  Photo 3 - mine spur.  



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Date: 12/05/16 20:29
Re: Football and Model trains
Author: jberlin

Photo 4 - Rural Farm Landscape.  Photo 5 - You can't have Pittsburgh without Steel Mills!  
The Western PA Model Railroad Museum houses a 4,000 sq ft display modelling the former B&O and Western Maryland Railroads between Pittsburgh PA and Cumberland MD in the late 1950's.


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