Percy Pierce's Seton Valley RR PRR D-16's | O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum

Carey WilliamsOGR Forum Member

Hello all

Hard to believe someone would find " model railroading " as a "fall back" hobby. Percy W Pierce's first passion in 1908 was aviation gliders & planes ...models & full size, manufacturing and flying. When the new Franklin Institute building opened in 1936 they requested Pierce's glider as a display ...Mrs Pierce was thrilled when Percy took up model railroading in the basement .
Percy lived in Philadelphia surrounded by many veteran model railroaders ..including Paul Egolf who was the first to offer O scale trains in 1927 ...and had built several of Percy's model airplane kits before going into trains ..the two hit it off .
Paul Egolf provided components for a PRR D-16 to get Percy on the right track. Percy's Seton Valley Railroad was heavily covered in various articles in Model Railroader throughout 1942. 20 years later Percy passed away and the layout was taken down.
To see Percy's 2 D-16's double headed pulling his scratch built passenger train please see link
https://youtu.be/lkeAyCm5_Xg

Cheers Carey

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roll_the_diceOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing the video!

8/9/234:28 PM

PRR ManOGR Forum Member

An engine not normally seen in O scale. Very nice, thanks Cary!

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