Contact: Ken McCorry, general manager.
Railroad currently in operation. Modeling the PRR's Harrisburg-Buffalo line circa 1962-1968. Layout size is 32x80 double deck. Construction started in 1992. Currently 95% of track is in service and signalling is the next major project.
A 950' mainline, mostly double track, is controlled by two dispatchers. "Kase" on the eastern end controls main line trackage from just west of Rockville to "Lyons" located across the river from Williamsport. Also included in "Kase's" territory are the Shamokin Br., Selinsgrove Br., Wilkes-Barre Br., Williamsport Br. and southern end of the Elmira Br. The "Lyco" dispatcher located in Williamsport controls the main line from "Lyons" to Delevan, NY., located 40 miles east of Buffalo. Also in "Lyco's" territory are the west end of the Bald Eagle Br. and the Driftwood Secondary.
Helpers are used on most trains over the 2.7% Keating Summit grade with the helper operations based in Renovo instead of Emporium as the real PRR did. Operating sessions require 20 people and are held once a month. Portions of the Reading RR, New York Central ,and EL are also included in the operations, as is a large 200 sq.ft. steel mill ficticiously located in Port Alleghany, Pa.
System One DCC is used for train control.
Layout Design (315K) - Copyright 1999, Model Railroader magazine, used by permission.
Photo Tour by Jerry Britton in Spring, 1999.
Construction Photos of Expansion by Jerry Britton in Spring, 2000. Ken's been hard at work on his 32' by 24' expansion, which includes Harrisburg, the Rockville Bridge, a new, higher Keating Summit, and the Bald Eagle Branch!
Digital photos by Jerry Britton.
Ken's layout was featured in the April 1999 issue of Model Railroader magazine.
In "World's biggest home layout? A multilevel Pennsy system", Ken describes the thought behind the design of the layout...with operations in mind.
Copyright 1999, Model Railroader magazine, used by permission.
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