Cool! Looking forward to it!

Me for sure. Most of the stuff I model isn't available commercially so it's either extreme kitbashes or scratchbuilding.

This is very true, unfortunately.

I’ve been trying to organize an oral history project at the RF&P HistSoc for these same reasons but it’s quite a task to undertake. Progress is slow.

IC is really under-appreciated, and this bubbles over into model production.

Wow

I cycled thru many scales before landing on HO as my primary. Nowadays I mostly restrain myself from purchases outside of HO unless they’re from pre-1990 Eastern Europe. Then I’ll buy TT or N stuff.

It’s always sat poorly with me because its “humor” posits that an interest in trains and being on the spectrum are things to be ashamed of. Neither are.

CE-15 is at the B&O RR Museum in Baltimore, although its design is a little different. I feel like the Detroit Photographic collection has a pic of a clearance car but not being that into MoW I don’t think I ever paid it much mind.

I’ll look for the reference. I think it was the subject of someone’s electrical engineering dissertation. I mostly remember it because the document had real photos glued into it.

It’s been years since I read about it but IIRC at one time the PRR had (or planned?) a substation over the tracks in, I think, Philly. Maybe that approach would free up room?

That bed looks amazing!

FWIW one of the early executives of the M&PA came from a WB&A predecessor. Also, if I can play along, maybe add in the Chesapeake Beach Railway to the system.

I thought to myself “ok, that’s a *really* niche reference; but this being bsky, maybe I’ve found someone else who knows late 80s East German music.” Accidental laughter is also good tho.

Stille Invasion?