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I’ve been wondering if there are any clubs or fellow enthusiasts in the Lancaster, Lebanon, Harrisburg area of Pennsylvania.                                       The recent post by Mark Boyce about what they are doing in the western part of the state brought it to mind.

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I hope we get some more responses.

We may need to organize little sub chapters scattered out across PA similar to what mark and them are doing out west. I mean after all, we are in the old PRR stomping grounds so I’m sure there has to be others with similar interests.

Jay, the horseshoe curve is awesome! Always loved that region. I had a summer place near Tunkhannock that was on the Susquehanna River at the “Gooseneck” section. Voseburg tunnel is there and further down the line is the Nicholson Viaduct. Not sure why I just mentioned all that but the horseshoe curve just reminds me of up there.

In the Wilkes-Barre area you have the Back Mountain Club in Dallas with O and HO.  A little further is my modular group, The Anthracite Hi-Railers.  We typically have extended displays beginning at Thanksgiving and ending in mid-winter, depending on our host.  We are presently located in the Peebles building at Bill's Plaza at 921 Drinker Trnpk, Covington Twp.

Check us out on Facebook for days and hours.  We have been holding Saturday openings from 1-4 P.M. except for Saturday of the Allentown Show.  We are hoping to open for few Sundays in the near future. If our host will allow, we would like to stay through March.

Stop by and see us.

Earl               

In the Wilkes-Barre area you have the Back Mountain Club in Dallas with O and HO.  A little further is my modular group, The Anthracite Hi-Railers.  We typically have extended displays beginning at Thanksgiving and ending in mid-winter, depending on our host.  We are presently located in the Peebles building at Bill's Plaza at 921 Drinker Trnpk, Covington Twp.

Check us out on Facebook for days and hours.  We have been holding Saturday openings from 1-4 P.M. except for Saturday of the Allentown Show.  We are hoping to open for few Sundays in the near future. If our host will allow, we would like to stay through March.

Stop by and see us.

Earl               

Hello Earl. I was at your clubs display 2 weekends ago. It was great!! I took tons of photos and videos and posted several on another thread. Weather was icy this past weekend so didn’t make it back up. I’m hoping to make it there again. I did hear about the Back Mountain Club, I’ll have to check them out some more. Thanks for the tips! Appreciate it!

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-(updated 2/11/22, based on information provided in posts made after this was first posted)

Railroad Clubs in NC/NE PA:

Just an FYI:

* I attempt to keep a LIST of the clubs in the North Central and North East parts of Pennsylvania.

The web page is at  track2.com/pa/contacts.clubs.shtml .

I attempted to organize this list by "Regions".

  • The 1st below image shows the REGIONS on the PA map.
  • The 2nd and 3rd images show the lists of clubs by region.
  • The 4th and last image shows an alphabetical list of the same clubs.



Clubs Not Yet Added to the Web Page:

* Anthracite Hi-Railers O-ga. modular group, near Scranton PA:
Facebook page is at facebook.com/AnthraciteHiRailers . They appear to operate in the Covington Township area, which is just a little SE of Scranton PA.

* Back Mountain Railroad Club multi-Ga. group, in Dallas PA:
Web page at  BackMtnRRclub.com  , Facebook  facebook.com/BackMountainRailroadClub .

* Masonic Village and Elizabethtown Model Railroad club, multi-Ga. group, located on the grounds of the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown PA.
Web page at   mvetrainclub.com  , Facebook  facebook.com/MasonicvillageMRRC

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Following below, are 4 screenshots from the Track2 Railnet "Club Contacts" web page:
(You can CLICK ON these images, to open them LARGER.)

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Last edited by James Ingram

Thank you Randy, that looks like a good possibility. It’s about a hour away.

Jay:

I also live about an hour away in Baltimore. Though I am temporarily out of commission right now due to health issues, I hope to see you there. The President is Jerry Smith. Contact me through my personal E-Mail for Jerry's contact information. My E-Mail is in my OGR profile.

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