The Pennsy - Six Miles West of Altoona and More

[ACL1504]

Bill and Kris,

Great job on the entire scene. The scenery looks as if it has been there forever. I really like the blend of color in the trees - looks very natural.

The FOS tower gas looks better without the witches hat on the building cupola. Nice job on the structure. The junk cars give the scene a touch of realism.

Well done Butties.

Tom

[PennsyJ1]

Bill and Kris,

Great job on the entire scene. The scenery looks as if it has been there forever. I really like the blend of color in the trees - looks very natural.

The FOS tower gas looks better without the witches hat on the building cupola. Nice job on the structure. The junk cars give the scene a touch of realism.

Well done Butties.


Tom

Thanks for checking in and the kind remarks. You and Bob Butts have been the main inspiration to do structures for the layout. Hopefully my quality will improve.
Bill

[ReadingBob]

Two thumbs up Bill and Kris!         Nice job on the structure and the scene.  The fine folks of Gallitzin now have a place to fill up and get their car serviced.   

[GPdemayo]

What a terrific scene.....great work Kris & Bill. 

[PennsyJ1]

Two thumbs up Bill and Kris!         Nice job on the structure and the scene.  The fine folks of Gallitzin now have a place to fill up and get their car serviced.   

Thanks Bob, now for the next build.
Bill

[PennsyJ1]

What a terrific scene.....great work Kris & Bill. 

Thanks for checking in Greg, we appreciate the support.
Bill

[jrmueller]

Well done!  Jim

[PennsyJ1]

Well done!  Jim

Thank you Mr. Jim
Bill

[PennsyJ1]

Well it is time to add some more character to the Pennsy. My good friend and Pennsy Railroad expert Jon Schubert, have decided to add some signal bridges to the layout, which should amount to 13 signal bridges. I purchased the signal bridges from Oregon Rail Supply (very nice people ) and circuit boards and LEDs. Jon asked if he could take on the task of assembling the bridges. I don't think he knew what he was getting into. Most of the bridges had to be modified in width to give us clearances needed. This entailed disassembling the girder section and adding new panels as needed. When a signal bridge was in the interlocking area 2 targets were used for each track, a upper and lower target. This gave the engineer the correct info to operate. Each target head has 5 magnet wires running from it to a terminal strip under the layout. In this case 20 wires per bridge was needed, a lot of tiny soldering points. Some bridges will be hard wired, and others are activated by a tortoise machine until the day comes for setting up blocks etc. At least for know a little splash of color and character. This morning when I walked into the layout room the sun was coming thru the open sliders so I snapped a few photo's to share.   

[ReadingBob]

Very "Pennsy" looking!     That's a really nice addition to the layout.   

[jimmillho]

That really looks neat.  Love the sunlight across the tracks.

Jim

[PennsyJ1]

Thanks Bob and Jim for checking in. More to come as we add more signal bridges.

Bill

[Zephyrus52246]

Nice pictures.  Signal bridges look great.


Jeff

[ACL1504]

Bill and Kris,

The Pennsylvania, The Standard Railroad of the World, just behind the Atlantic an Southern RR.


The signals look wonderful, John did a great job getting them all together.

Thanks for sharing to updates.

Tom

[PennsyJ1]

Thanks Jeff and Tom for stopping by. Every little bit that gets added to the layout seems to give that area more depth. Thanks again.
Bill & Kris