PRR in South Pittsburgh in the late 1940s

Exhibition Information

to be completed

Exhibition Managers Information

Contact: John H. Wright, 9 Wear Tce., Columbia, Washington, Tyne & Wear, NE38 7AZ

Tel: 0191 4166280 E-mail: johnhwright@xclent.freeuk.com
Web site: http://www.xclent.freeuk.com

Three operators

Van ( Transit type )

Total Length including staging is 18ft. This is for the 21st Street Yard only

Total width including operator space at the front is 6ft ( minimum ). We would appreciate a couple of feet more width if possible.

Requirements: One small table ( essential for the dispatcher ), 3 chairs, one three pin socket.

 

FEDERAL   STREET        Finale

Fed St's last show was at RAILEX, Aylesbury, on MAY 26/27  2006. After which it was sold.

What I'm now building is a two part display with a central staging area common to both, somewhat similar to Mike Scott's concept for his two Industry Yard diaoramas.

Both will be based on the PRR Whitehall branch once again, the LHS modules will attempt to portray the area around 21st Street Yard while the RHS ones will try to show a look and feel arrangement of the Pittsburgh Terminal Warehouse and the Oliver Iron & Steel Co.

Total length and width plus exhibition details will be similar to that of Fed St. ..... ie. 28ft by 6 ft ( allowing for operator space )

Having two sections also means that each can be exhibited as a stand alone layout without necessarily having the other one present.

Here are two rough sketches of my line of thinking at the moment.   

NB. Track plan for the Warehouse board hasn't yet formed in the old brain cells.

	BUILDING THE NEW LAYOUT STARTED IN DECEMBER 2006 The staging has to be shared between the two parts of the layout so a traverser design was worked out. Seven roads have been constructed, two of which will be free to act as lead tracks for each part of the layout. The copper clad timbers have been painted over in these views, and will be cleaned prior to soldering the rails in due course.           A general view of the set up. The strings hanging down are just a temporary way of tying up the legs and their steel stay bars.
	The two layout boards plus traverser board on the right. Jan 2nd 2007 A fine day but freezing cold
	The traverser sits on castors and runs in two aluminium channels. All wood surfaces are painted .... a prerequisite for an exhibition layout.

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