01-24-2011, 10:09 PM
I have said article, I think it was by Jim Hertzog or one of the other local Reading modelers. Shouldn;t be too hard to adapt to any of the various proper open hoppers, although I'm pretty sure I have an example of every road number 55 ton hooper kit and RTR produced by Stewart, Accurrail, Atheran, and Kadee.
As for cement plants, mine specifically represents the one that stood in Fogelsville of old Rt 22 until the early 70's, although it will likely look more like the one that was at 248 and 191 in Nazareth, as I remember passing that on the way to my grandparents, and I also remember seeing trains there, even LNE RS-2s (although by that time CNJ had taken over so they might have been CNJ RS-3s). That one is still there, although highly modernized and with no rail service anymore. There used to be a lumber yard across 191 from it, also rail served. I distinctly remember the tracks crossing 191 on two different levels, one level with the base of the cement silos, the other that led on to a heavy concrete trestle divided into sections for different raw materials. There was one, maybe 2 plants along the Delaware, one which is probably the one you remember was at Sandt's Eddy, there's a big PP&L power plant in that area now.
--Randy
As for cement plants, mine specifically represents the one that stood in Fogelsville of old Rt 22 until the early 70's, although it will likely look more like the one that was at 248 and 191 in Nazareth, as I remember passing that on the way to my grandparents, and I also remember seeing trains there, even LNE RS-2s (although by that time CNJ had taken over so they might have been CNJ RS-3s). That one is still there, although highly modernized and with no rail service anymore. There used to be a lumber yard across 191 from it, also rail served. I distinctly remember the tracks crossing 191 on two different levels, one level with the base of the cement silos, the other that led on to a heavy concrete trestle divided into sections for different raw materials. There was one, maybe 2 plants along the Delaware, one which is probably the one you remember was at Sandt's Eddy, there's a big PP&L power plant in that area now.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad of the 1950's in HO
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