Looking for holiday layouts in SE PA Delaware Valley/South Jersey area

You will need to go north my friend to Northampton & Leigh counties and surrounding counties;

1] Pocono Museum Unlimited o scale/3 rail layout at the merchant square mall [formerly @ leighton, PA] open fri, sat, 7 sunday $7.00 admission.

http://www.merchantssquaremall.com/

2] Black Diamond Society of Model Engineers

http://www.bdsme.org/bdsme_timetable.htm

3] Nazareth Area Society of Model Enginners

Stockertown PA Old Firehall.

http://nasme.tripod.com/openhouse.html

Also note in Merchatville, NJ there is the Cherry Hill Model RR club in the basement of the United Methodist Church.

And Don't forget the O scale layout in the Brandywine River art Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa

http://www.brandywinemuseum.org/trains.html

There is also this in Bordentown, NJ...

http://cityofbordentown.com/Ma...Show%20_1%20Page.pdf

and this one in center city...

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.c...liday-train-display/

http://www.uwishunu.com/2011/1...ent-making-and-more/

I usually post this Thanksgiving weekend but in the spirit of rushing the holidays I'll post it this weekend !  

http://www.wvmgrs.org/TrainGardens.htm

Jerry

The Christmas Putz (puh + tz) in The Lutheran Home at Topton, PA, will be open 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM Saturdays and Sundays from November 24 through December 30. The Putz was built piece by piece between 1909 and 1946 by Mrs. Ida Henry, Matron of The Lutheran Orphans' Home. It fills 560 square feet. It is the last and largest family Putz in America still under original ownership. For more information, go to Jim Kelly's online magazine, Tinplate Times (www.tinplatetimes.com). Click on "Archives." Scroll down to "A Tinplate Christmas Putz." Click on that.

Topton is located halfway between Reading and Allentown a few miles east of Route 222, along the East Penn Branch of the Reading (now Norfolk Southern). The Reading station there is now a bakery and deli. Topton is named for the top of the grade. Eastbound trains thunder through town blowing their horns for the crossing. A grand sight, indeed!

Come to think of it, Reading Terminal Holiday Railroad will open at 10:00 AM November 23 through December 31 in Reading Terminal Market at 12th & Market in downtown Philly, by PA Convention Center. Check it out at www.readingterminalmarket.org.

There's just a couple weekends left of these open houses, but there are some great layouts here to visit.  Most are HO but there's some nice "O" layouts too.

http://66.147.244.179/%7Emodelra2/modelindex.html

Also The Pequea Valley Model Railroaders will have several layout displays at the Paradise Township Building, 2 Township Drive, Paradise, Pa. (near Strasburg) on weekends (1pm-4pm & 12/26 1pm-8pm) from Nov. 24th to Jan. 13th.  Included are upgrades to last years "O" & "S" gauge displays along with a Thomas layout & Remco Mighty Casey Trains from the 1970's for children under 40 lbs. to ride.

A nominal admission fee for those 13 & up.  Kids 12 & under are free.  www.paradisetownship.org

After 12/11 both of you are welcome to see my 2 Christmas layouts, as well as the 3 small ones I have up year 'round (O,S, and N). I'm in Media, PA which is about 10 miles West of Phila.

207 open houses this month around the DE, PA,  NJ, MD juncture:

http://66.147.244.179/%7Emodelra2/modelindex.html