My First Modular Experience - Anthracite Hi-Railers

Chris,

Thanks for the great PR.  WE will be open on New Year's Day and Sunday from 1-4 PM.  We will be announcing more dates in January after this weekend. Go to our Facebook page, Anthracite Hi-Railers, for updates. 

Wow ... seems like a great club. Your CR NW2 coal train is cool, too.

Excellent layout and great videos........modular clubs are a blast! A great way to meet others in the hobby and share it with the public!

Peter

Wow!!! Great Pics and video! Your CR NW2 sets are very nice! The the whole setup is really nice!

Here is a short clip of our layout that I call "Pocono Raceway" from a previous open house. It features two Weaver DL&W Poconos running side-by-side.   

Took PNER 1751 and the Anthracite Excursion to the modular group today. Only had a short amount of time today but it was great to stretch the legs of my passenger equipment. As usual had a great time! Looking forward to going up again!

Nice layout... and facility, it looks like. 👍

Mark in Oregon

First time I’m posting anything but have been reading up on the forum for about a year now. Finally joined the forum on Wednesday and really wish I had sooner! Came across this post after being able to search on the site and I’m looking forward to checking out this layout today. I’m currently redoing my 8x8 L shaped layout that has 3 lines and 2 levels ( top corner is a winter/ Christmas village). Did my layout about 15 years ago and basically just threw it together. After getting lost in YouTube for several hours watching creative ways to do scenery, buildings, lighting, etc. and just simply seeing how amazing some layouts are and the INEXPENSIVE techniques that are out there, I’ve decided to redo my layout. Coming across a modular layout like this is perfect to see all the different ideas on each modular. Very nice trains you’ve brought along as well. I’ve only ever had Lionel postwar engine’s but looking to expand. Unfortunately, that portion of the hobby isn’t inexpensive.

@Richizzle07 posted:

First time I’m posting anything but have been reading up on the forum for about a year now. Finally joined the forum on Wednesday and really wish I had sooner! Came across this post after being able to search on the site and I’m looking forward to checking out this layout today. I’m currently redoing my 8x8 L shaped layout that has 3 lines and 2 levels ( top corner is a winter/ Christmas village). Did my layout about 15 years ago and basically just threw it together. After getting lost in YouTube for several hours watching creative ways to do scenery, buildings, lighting, etc. and just simply seeing how amazing some layouts are and the INEXPENSIVE techniques that are out there, I’ve decided to redo my layout. Coming across a modular layout like this is perfect to see all the different ideas on each modular. Very nice trains you’ve brought along as well. I’ve only ever had Lionel postwar engine’s but looking to expand. Unfortunately, that portion of the hobby isn’t inexpensive.

Welcome to the forum.

Check out this thread too. Lot's of great ideas and advice offered.

https://ogrforum.com/...6#158955947676361496

@RSJB18 posted:

Welcome to the forum.

Check out this thread too. Lot's of great ideas and advice offered.

https://ogrforum.com/...6#158955947676361496

Thanks for the welcome and the thread advice! That thread will definitely take more than a few hours haha!

Welcome aboard, great advice on this forum!

@Artie-DL&W posted:

Welcome aboard, great advice on this forum!

Thanks for the welcome! There sure is some great advice on this forum!

What a cool modular set up! I spent over an hour and a half just taking in all the different details on all the different Modular’s. Must have circled the layout at-least 20 times haha. Very wide range in numerous scenery scenarios which is quite unique. Some extremely nice trains running too! 45 car train of nearly all containers, Awesome! Wish I got there earlier to chat but roads were snow covered. Definitely going to try to make it there again. Great job Anthracite Hi-Railers!

A few videos I took of the different trains running. Enjoy!

@Conductor Earl posted:

Chris,

Thanks for the great PR.  WE will be open on New Year's Day and Sunday from 1-4 PM.  We will be announcing more dates in January after this weekend. Go to our Facebook page, Anthracite Hi-Railers, for updates.

Hello again Earl. Figured I’d track down the videos I mentioned in another thread for you. Hopefully I’ll make it up again to see the modular. Seems every weekend we have horrible weather.

Took pretty much all my freight cars to the modular layout last night, first time I’ve ran all of them together! My Williams NW2’s didn’t even get warm after 2 hours of doing laps. Another fun night, and it was great meeting you Rich!

Great fun!

Peter

Great meeting you too Chris! Sure is fun seeing a train pulling a high number of cars, especially when there’s 3 of them running! As always I took in the scenery and noticed even more little details that make the scene pop. Thanks again to Eric for opening up for us.