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Indiana Branch of the PRR in 1950
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Indiana Branch of the PRR in 1950

The Indiana Branch of the PRR basically arose from a reading of Tony Koester's Realistic Model Railroad Building Blocks. Somewhere in that book he mentioned that a switching layout might be just one Layout Design Element. I knew it might be a year or more before I could run trains on the Rock Ridge and Train City II, and I had thought about building a switching layout so I could run trains during the RRTC construction period. I took Tony's book as a challenge.

I searched several different areas before I settled on the town I was living's downtown area. The PRR Indiana branch terminate here. I found a 1938 aerial photo and was hooked. I tracked down a Sandborn Insurance Map and I was off. I designed the layout close to the prototype, but I did use some selective compression. Originally, I had planned for sliding staging, but space negotiations and a pole eliminated that idea. If the layout is moved to a future office, I left the extension detachable.






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