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Sunday 1:00-5:00	Rick Spano	N	Digitrax DCC
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The Sceniced and Undecided Rwy is a 42’ x 26’ N scale layout with about 98% of the scenery completed. In the 1980’s BN, CP Rail, CN, and BC Rail diesels (and S&U steam engines) haul unit trains of coal, grain, sulfur, iron ore, wood chips, etc. across the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada to the ports of the West Coast and to the ports and steel mills of the Great Lakes. Scenery and animation are the hallmarks of the S&U, where operating mines, cranes, excavators, rotary car-dumpers, Huletts, factory assembly lines, trucks, buses and fireworks are some of the many animated devices that can be seen along harbors, towns, cities, rivers and mountainous terrain with numerous tunnels and more than two dozen bridges and trestles. The S&U has been featured in Model Railroader (May 1980), Great Model Railroads 1999, N Scale Railroading (May/June 2002 and Nov/Dec 2006), and Kalmbach Layout Video Tour #4.

http://scenicedandundecided.net http://www.njdivnmra.org/Layouts.html  http://www.phillynmra.org/HomeLayouts/NJDiv_Layouts/Spano.html

Sunday 1:00-5:00	Rob & Sandy Arthur	HO	NCE DCC

The R&S RR is a 35’x 20’ double-deck, S-shaped layout running PRR and Reading. Two helixes connect the upper and lower levels, with scenery on the lower level about 70% complete. The layout features typical Pennsylvania mountainous scenery with several towns and villages and a very large, detailed steel mill complex.

Sunday 1:00-5:00	Bob Jans	HO	NCE DCC
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The PRR Mountain Division is a 25’ x 25’ double deck layout with a 4 track helix and 70% of the scenery completed. The mountain scenery, with its gorges and many bridges, disguises the double deck design. The layout has almost 500 ft of mainline trackage including a free-lanced secondary double track PRR mainline following the route of the PA Turnpike from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh and a single track B&O mainline from Hancock, MD to Connelsville, PA. The B&O interchanges with the PRR at the towns of Somerset and Bedford, PA. Also modeled is a WM mining branch with trackage rights on the B&O.

Sunday 1:00-5:00	Dick Genthner	HO	Lenz DCC
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The Arpee and Western is a 1600 sq ft layout, filling a 65’ x 20’ main room plus a second room which is 10’ x 10’. It is a single track bridge line connecting with four other railroads in the upstate New York Catskill Mountain area in the late 1930s timeframe. One of the connecting railroads, the Ulster and Delaware, includes a working cable car system based on the prototype that existed in the Catskills in the late 1800s until the 1930s. The A&W was designed for operations with fast clock, schedules and car cards/waybills. The A&W, which was previously based in Cary, NC before being moved to NJ in 2006, has 100% of the track work and 60% of the scenery completed.    http://www.njdivnmra.org/Layouts.html

Sunday 1:00-5:00	Rick Bickmore	HO	Digitrax DCC
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The Harrisburg Terminal Railroad is a 40’ x 20’ around-the-wall layout with 30 % of the scenery completed and features a fictitious subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Set in October of 1966, the HTRR depicts a seven mile long area of the Harrisburg, PA vicinity and is primarily focused on the movements required to service a large integrated steel mill complex as well as PRR freight operations in this busy industrial area.

Sunday 1:00-5:00	Keith Bergman	HO	Digitrax DCC
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The Wabash RR/Ann Arbor Rwy is a 25’ x 25’ around-the-wall shelf layout with about 90% of the scenery completed. It is set in the late steam/early diesel era and has a single track main line with passing sidings and backdrops dividing some of the scenes. It features a Great Lakes RR ferryboat being loaded and unloaded.

http://www.phillynmra.org/HomeLayouts/NJDiv_Layouts/KeithBergman.html

Sunday 1:00-5:00	Herb Gishlick	HO	Keeler Rail Systems CTC80
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The Windsor Railroad is a 27’ x 23’ modern era layout that concentrates on inter-modal trains and commuter service in the NJ/NY area. The scenery is more than 90% complete. The layout has very nice backdrops and beautiful fall scenery with many rural, suburban, and urban scenes that are typical of central and northern NJ. It was featured in SCALE RAILS, Feb, 2006 and in MODEL RAILROADER, Aug, 2006  http://www.phillynmra.org/HomeLayouts/NJDiv_Layouts/HerbGishlick.html

Sunday 1:00-5:00	Bob Liberman	HO	NCD DCC
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The Southern Pacific Cascade Division is an 800 sq ft layout, with about 75% of the scenery completed. It is owned by Bob Liberman and operated by the Northern Burlington MRR Club. The area modeled is the 99 miles of SP trackage in Oregon from Klamath Falls to Crescent Lake. The layout features beautiful floor to ceiling mountains, plus cities, towns and harbors. The motive power consists of first generation diesels and many beautiful SP steam engines, all with sound, running on handlaid track. The layout was featured as the cover story in Model Railroader, July 1993.  http://home.comcast.net/~rdliberman/wsb/  http://www.phillynmra.org/HomeLayouts/NJDiv_Layouts/bobLieberman.htm

Sunday 1:00-5:00	Mike Prokop	HO	CVP EasyDCC
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The New Jersey and Western RR is a 30’ x 25’ double-decked layout built around the wall with a peninsula. The scenery is 85% complete. It is a steam-to-diesel transition era, freelanced Northeast railroad, located primarily in New Jersey with interchanges with NYC, NYS&W, CNJ, PRR, and the Reading. Steam is the primary motive power, of which almost all engines have sound units (mostly SOUNDTRAX, TSUNAMI and QSI).  http://www.njdivnmra.org/Layouts.html  http://www.phillynmra.org/HomeLayouts/NJDiv_Layouts/MikeProkop.html

Sunday 1:00-5:00	Mike Prokop	Garden 1:20.3	CVP Airwire R/C
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The Hill Valley RR is a 60’ x 30’ Narrow Gauge Garden Railroad (loosely base on the EBT) running through a really nice garden, around an in-ground pool and over a pond. The layout features many scratch-built structures including a triple truss bridge over the pond, a few long trestles, a turntable and roundhouse, a station and other various railroad and industrial structures.