The Path Valley Lines is my new name for the Blacklog & Shade Gap Eastern layout that lived digitally on the former RR-Line forum from 2009-2025. The new name reflects both its geographical setting & the presence of two HO model railroads: the narrow gauge B&SGE and a branch line of the standard ("of the World") 😉 gauge PRR.
I'll start the tour with a couple before and after (actually, after and before) views of the scene that greets visitors as they enter the layout. The B&SGE mainline loops around Richmond Hill as it runs northerly between the terminal yard at Richmond Furnace and Springtown, PA.
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I hope I spell Sellios correctly in the probation section. 🙄
I'm trying, again, to embed an image in a post.
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I think I figured it out.
Enjoyed the photos Vagel, I'll be looking in.....
Looking forward to more photos!
dave
We'll start at Chambersburg, which was the historic HQ and operation hub of the PRR's Cumberland Valley Div. (downgraded to Branch by the 1930s). The roundhouse area is not true to the prototype, but not totally fictional, either.
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The diseasal servicing facility IS fictional; in the diseasal era there was an EMD SW-something or other assigned to C'burg for duty but the Hagerstown, MD engine house for maintenance.
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Recent work in this area involved installing water stand pipes & details around the coaling bunker.
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I captioned the last image, "It's all fun and games until a pigeon poops on you."
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More in my next post.