Greys Ferry Junction: How it started, how it's going.

[Hiroe]

It was really these prototype location photos that got me started on modeling this spot.
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How it started:
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[Hiroe]

How it's going:

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[pjm20]

Great modeling! Are your modules part of a greater master plan, or just what strikes your fancy on the NEC?

[Hiroe]

Great modeling! Are your modules part of a greater master plan, or just what strikes your fancy on the NEC?

Mostly just what strikes my fancy, although the club as a group does eventually plan to tackle 30th Street Station and Zoo Tower as a whole set of modules.
Right now though, we're working on 58th Street module as part of the 2021 NMRBO (but we probably won't enter it officially as the work has halted on it due to a housing situation complication). When 58th is done, I will likely fill in two 5-foot modules (PHIL Interlocking North, and PHIL Interlocking South) between 58th and Greys Ferry, to 'complete' that area.

[Bob]

Wow!  I work at CHOP, and so am through Grey's Ferry all the time - outstanding work!!!

[Ed Kapuscinski]

That's where Grays Ferry Ave crosses the NEC, right?

[Hiroe]

That's where Grays Ferry Ave crosses the NEC, right?

That would be correct.

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[Hiroe]

Here's the next two modules to the south/west on the Corridor that have planned.


4900 Greys would have the 36 trolley route curving south from 49th St onto Greys Ave along the front of the module, with the Ironworks in between the street and the corridor. Also, the switches for MAB Paints and the trash plant across Greys would be included (complete with an at-grade street crossing of the 36 trolley with the industrial siding).
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Next to the south from 4900, would be PHIL Interlocking on the corridor, and MAB paints on a separate trolley-only module added to the front of PHIL.
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South of PHIL is 58th Street where CSX passes over the Corridor with a long skewed truss. This module is already in progress as a club project.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I always liked that MAB plant.

[Hiroe]

I always liked that MAB plant.

Finding photos of it when it was still a paint factory, is something I've not had much luck with.

[Missaberoad]

Older postcard view...

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Finding photos of it when it was still a paint factory, is something I've not had much luck with.

Not much help, but I remember seeing a Ti Pure tank car on the spur many years ago.

[Hiroe]

Not much help, but I remember seeing a Ti Pure tank car on the spur many years ago.

I actually have a handful of Ti-Pure tanks already, as well as a pair of two-bay airslides patched for MABX.
I've also got some Ti² tanks from both National Lead and NJ Zinc.
Other local freight cars:
-Breyers RBLs
-domino sugars tanks for both Breyers and Publicker
-Jack Frost/diamond sugars tanks and covered hoppers
-Publicker tanks in 8k, 16k, and cryo sizes
-GE tanks for their switchgear plant at 62nd
-GAF hot-tar tanks for the shingle factory in Wilmington
-PQ tanks for Stony Creek
-CF Simonin & Sons Vegetable oils tanks
-Rohm & Haas tanks
-90-some G38, G39, and G39a ore jennies for Greenwich ore service (I need about 20 more G38's)

[Ed Kapuscinski]

-GE tanks for their switchgear plant at 62nd

Which cars are these?

[Hiroe]

Which cars are these?

Just older Athearn 40-foot 8k tanks, painted for GE Lamps, that I justify as hauling epoxy resins.