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The New Jersey Division presents the:

 Thursday Sept 30, 2010

2010 MER-NMRA Convention
Princeton, NJ

 Layout Tours

This is the current list of hosts for the Princeton Junction 2010 Layout Tour.  They are listed in order by opening times, then alphabetically by last name.  Several of our hosts will be open during more than one day period. In those cases, the complete descriptions appear for each of the days so that you won’t have to search for them.  Below the times is a general direction and approximate distance indicator for your convenience in ordering your tour.  Maps and complete directions will be available at the convention. 

 

Thursday “on the way” tour maps and directions will be available for the asking for any member registered for the convention.  They will be emailed (preferably) or mailed about two weeks before the convention. 
 

Note that this list is not final. Updates will be made as additional layouts, pictures, and descriptions

become available. Check back to see what’s new

 

Thursday 7:00-10:00    

Keith Bergman HO Digitrax DCC

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
 

Thursday 7:00-10:00    

Dick Genther HO Lenz DCC

 

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

       

Thursday 7:00-10:00    

Herb Gishlick HO Keeler Rail Systems CTC80

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

 

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