This is a continuation of my original blog which documents the design and building of a model railroad, the Paducah and Lake Erie, a free-lance bridge line set in the modern time to replicate the coal hauling railroads of southwestern Pennsylvania. To see the original blog, go to www.blackdiamondsroute.blogspot.com. Click on any photo to enlarge it. You can view some of my photos of prototype railroad action at http://billlinson.rrpicturearchives.net.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Tractors, Tractors, Tractors
Those rail fans who frequent Tom Davis's establishment, The Station Inn, in Cresson, PA will hopefully recognize this scene (minus the benchwork, of course) on the P&LE. A common site on the NS line between Harrisburg, PA, and Pittsburgh are trains with multiple flat cars of tractors, being passed by the Pennsylvanian, Amtrak's daily Pittsburgh-to-New York City passenger train. The building is an excellent replica of the Station Inn, kit bashed by Kenny Heyl of Ashland. The tractor train is always one that most photographers try to catch as it heads east on almost a daily run. The Station Inn is a B&B that caters to rail fans, and is an outstanding place to stay while checking out the busy railroad between Johnstown and Tyrone, PA. Innkeeper Davis is extremely knowledgable about railroading in general, and railroading in this area in particular; and one will have to travel some distance to find better breakfast fare than that provided by Sandy.
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