Pennsylvania Railroad

The other day, I posted a ficticious Pennsylvania paint scheme on a Dash 9 in response to a post by forum member, One of One-Sixty. This morning on the drive to work, I started thinking…... [Read more]

Let’s take a look at New York City’s Pennsylvania Station — one of the most architecturally-significant pieces of railroad history — as seen through the Hollywood’s... [Read more]

It’s time to continue the Pennylvania Railroad Hunt Tower built from part 1, and start building some windows and assembling walls.  Photo by Flickr member, McIvory. Used with... [Read more]

And so begins my adventure in scratch-building a structure. Sure, I’ve scratch built things for my model railroad before — newsstands, kiosks, a pigeon coop and other small... [Read more]

In part one we raised the stations walls, added windows and did a little painting.  So lets move right into it and continue where we left off. Construction I gave a warning in the... [Read more]

It has been my quest to help tare down the walls and stereotypes of scratch building.  The level of satisfaction that you gain from creating a structure from scratch verses kit built... [Read more]

When N Scale Limited visited several Eastern cities during our “On Location” tour, Chris Brimley and I stopped in Philadelphia (see our Philadelphia photos here). We agreed... [Read more]

Continuing our East Coast tour, Chris Brimley and I stopped in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, home of the Strasburg Railroad and the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. After a relatively quick... [Read more]

A mid-50s Pennsylvania Railroad promotional film titled, “Wheels of Steel”. Features PRR GG1s.  In two parts.  [Read more]

A 1983 NJ Transit documentary detailing the legendary Pennsylvania Railroad GG1, featuring the tuscan red GG1 with road number 4877 known as “Big Red”. The film starts with... [Read more]