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s progress continues on the layout in my basement, the time is coming when we’ll actually be running trains up and over Horseshoe Curve and through the tunnels at the top of the Alleghenies. I’d spent some time considering just what trains to run during the layout design process and used that information to determine length of passing sidings and locations and types of on-layout industries. The plan is to operate an eight-hour ‘trick’ utilizing a representative sample of the trains that actually ran up the real mountain in 1956. This article explains how we did that.
The Prototype The Pennsy still operated a considerable number of passenger trains in the mid-50s, along with priority freights that included west-coast perishables, livestock, and a growing less-than-carload
Figure 1: My Pennsylvania Railroad layout has a total of eight staging tracks for mainline trains, plus a single through track that allows trains to bypass trains waiting in staging. Page 55 • Issue 11-10 • Oct 2011• Comme-N-tary, page 1
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