PRR/Conrail Juniata Division Engineering Report

[Bsklarski]

Funny you say that, because as I look at the picture with the new signal, for whatever reason it makes the code 80 look less offensive to me.  Not sure why.  I think the giant signal heads (wider than the track) exacerbated the rail height.  Maybe it's just the photo.

You know this may sound funny, but I see what you are saying. I compared the two pictures side by side and I think Dr Dave is right, the code 80 looks smaller now lol. Cant figure that one out!

[kelticsylk]

It's alive!!! The signal runs through all 3 aspects as operated by a photocell between the rails where the cabin car (caboose) is. once the train clears the photocell, a timer keeps each aspect at 10 seconds until clear.

Wow!
That photo looks great Dave. Those signals look good too 

Signals are far down the road on the Allegheny Eastern, but I now know what I'd like to use.

Frank Musick

[Dave V]

Nothing says old Pennsylvania town like an old stone farmhouse. This is a one-piece casting I picked up at a train show 10 years ago; no idea who made it. I had used it in my old layout but it was painted much darker. I stripped and repainted it. It replaces an Atlas house kit whose colors I was never happy with.





I coated the windows with gloss medium to make the blackness seem like window glass.  It's not really a foreground model by any means, but sitting as it does in the center of the layout its lack of sharp detail is not distracting.  I wish the roof didn't have a sag to it, but I've seen much worse in real life in Lancaster County, PA.

[eric220]

Nothing says old Pennsylvania town like an old stone farmhouse...

It's not really a foreground model by any means, but sitting as it does in the center of the layout its lack of sharp detail is not distracting.  I wish the roof didn't have a sag to it, but I've seen much worse in real life in Lancaster County, PA.

I very much agree.  Nice piece to help reinforce the setting.

[davefoxx]

Speaking as someone who literally lives within five miles of the Pennsylvania border, that stone farmhouse really does help set the theme on your layout.  The roof sag doesn't bother me, because I've seen worse in the real world, too.  Nice work, Dave.

DFF

[Dave V]

As much as I would like to rest on my laurels with the one signal, now it's all the more painful to look at the old NJIs.  I will have to make some time to build the other three and denude the layout of its NJIs.

That said, I have been thinking that I could make some dummy PRR dwarf PLs on Shapeways:

[Bsklarski]

You can light those dwarfs..  no need for them to be dummy.

[Dave V]

You can light those dwarfs..  no need for them to be dummy.

Is it physically possible for one to build a functional N scale PL dwarf?  Yes.  Possible for me to do it?  Not so likely!

[John]

Is it physically possible for one to build a functional N scale PL dwarf?  Yes.  Possible for me to do it?  Not so likely!

what color are the lamps?   white?

[Bsklarski]

Dave if you are really serious about lighting them, I would need more info on the signal housing, ect. But yes. I know the man who can do it.

[C855B]

Hmm. CP Sneezy. One of the Seven Dwarf Signals. 

What I would do is Shapeways with holes all the way through, paint the resulting tubes black for light blocks and poke 0402 LEDs down the holes. Finish the fronts with translucent/matte clear, finish the back by filling the holes with paint. As signal projects go this would rank as a moderately easy DIY.

[Dave V]

what color are the lamps?   white?

Yellow.  Amber, technically.

[wm3798]

There are similar dwarf signals at the wye in Perryville.  They control the traffic coming off the Port Road onto the NEC.

On the other side of Perryville, there's a strip club that has dwarves.  But that's a different topic.

[Dave V]

[MichaelWinicki]

Wow!