Upon finding more info on the Hollidaysburg & Petersburg branch, I have decided to bend the truth with a branch of the PRR that closely follows the former Huntingdon and Broad Top from Huntingdon, Pa., to Bedford, Pa., and then continuing to Cumberland, Md.

I have modified my track plan to reflect the change. The modelled sections of the route will be the area around the coal mines in Broadtop and small classifying yard in Bedford area. In Beford, the line will have a cutoff and dissappear into a tunnel toward Cumberland. At the opposite end in the Broadtop area, the line will have one leg of a wye dissappear into a hidden staging area to represent the line north to Huntingdon.

The layout is roughly 9 x 13 in HO scale. The era is mid summer 1954. The average train is 10-12 cars. Typical motive power is first generation EMD. The line hauls coal from Broadtop to Bedford. Why, I have no idea because prototypically, it would move north to the mainline in Huntingdon.

Any comments would be helpful.

Last modified: April 11 2009.

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