Layout Update - Tyrone, PA town scene

Guys thanks for the kind remarks.  What I like best about the OGR forum is that it's a convenient place to share modelling tips and be encouraged through photos by the work of others.  While I enjoy doing scenery,  I see it as a means to an end - that being to provide a setting for prototype based operations.   My railroad was designed with five locations to provide operating interest. They are:

Oceola Mills: Coal collection yard and engine terminal on the Tyrone and Clearfield Branch supporting 4 mines

Tyrone, PA :  Junction for coal traffic coming down to the Middle Div. mainline from Oceola Mills

Horseshoe Curve:  Heavy 4 track mainline and helper district  

Altoona, PA:  Base for helper operations, engine changes, division point yard

Huntingdon ,PA : PRR interchange with the H&BT short line (coal and milk)

The first 3 can loosely be termed "finished".  Altoona and Huntingdon are operational but a number of structures need to be built/modified for the scenes to be ready for a feature article.  After Tyrone my next focus will be the Huntingdon scene (mostly false fronts)  and H&BT rolling stock.  As work progresses I'll post photos on the forum. 

A full feature article on the railroad is still sometime in the future.

Gives us all something to shoot for. Your town building is well ahead of mine so I've got a lot to learn. Really nice layout!

Beautiful work! Your town in amazing! I see details in yours I need to add to mine.

Who made that corner building with the onion top on it?

Ed, I live 30 minutes from Tyrone and it never looked that good!

Ed,

great scene.

alan graziano

Hey Ed,

I'm speechless! This is truly a masterpiece in the making. Your eye for detail is second to none. Thanks for the vibrant inspiring pictures.

Dave

I believe the onion dome corner drug store was a Thomas Yorke hydro cal plaster kit - it's very heavy.  I purchased it 3rd hand years ago from a fellow who was selling off his O scale in favor of HO.   It's first owner was Dr. Bill Truscot.   

If I had more space I would like to have modeled PRR's Bald Eagle Branch  street run past homes in Tyrone.  The real Tyrone and Clearfield Branch to Oceola Mills used a short section of the Bald Eagle Branch tracks through Tyrone to connect with the PRR Middle Division at a small yard controlled by Gray tower.  I was in Tyrone on a rainy morning in 1987 to video restored K4s 1361's first run.  In dramatic fashion it stalled right in town on wet rails.  To restart it backed down the street and made a run for it!.

Yes, it’s the Yorke Borscht building.  

Beautiful Ed!

Don't forget the two most important buildings in PA railroad towns.  Bars and  churches. 

Every corner had a bar and every ethnicity had a church. 

Nothing less then wonderful!

Rule292 posted:

Beautiful Ed!

Don't forget the two most important buildings in PA railroad towns.  Bars and  churches. 

Every corner had a bar and every ethnicity had a church. 

As a Pennsylvania resident born and raised, I can vouch for this! ESPECIALLY in the coal region. This layout is absolutely incredibly!

Outstanding Ed,  another "thank you" for sharing the method and providing the materials used, the step by step procedure and excellent photos.  I am definitely borrowing this method for building my two town scenes.  

Great looking town and Layout.  I like the way you snuck in the Joe's Diner phone.