What's New on the PRR Panhandle 2.0?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Is Inspector Samantha taking your picture here? (That's what my mother used to say when our cat would aim that end of herself at us, the tail being the shutter-lever, of sorts.)

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Your two partners-in-pleasantness appear to be helping make the entire project well worth your combined time, and enriched by the precious memories among you being made, as well as an enjoyable project for trains.
Congratulations on your little bit of heaven right there.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I probably will attempt it. There's nothing commercially available that's even close. I don't have plans, just some photos and reference material.

PRR - got to be plans in the archives // museum somewhere, but extracting them.......

Anyway, a handful of photos will probably suffice since you're going to compress it.

[G3750]

Your two partners-in-pleasantness appear to be helping make the entire project well worth your combined time, and enriched by the precious memories among you being made, as well as an enjoyable project for trains.
Congratulations on your little bit of heaven right there.

Thank you. I am truly blessed.

George

[G3750]

I probably will attempt it. There's nothing commercially available that's even close. I don't have plans, just some photos and reference material.

PRR - got to be plans in the archives // museum somewhere, but extracting them.......

Anyway, a handful of photos will probably suffice since you're going to compress it.

A few years back, I was in contact with one of the archivists for the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. The archives are in Lewistown, PA in the former PRR station. I had inquired about the plans for the Weirton Junction (WC) tower. He told me not to hold my breath because there were 10 boxcars full of documents still to be examined, identified, scanned, and stored. Fortunately, he stumbled across those plans purely by chance and got a copy to me.

As to the station's plan, I hope they are somewhere in those 10 boxcars of stuff. Only time (I don't know how much) will tell. In any case, I don't have the space to make the station to scale. It will have to be shortened. Nonetheless, I plan to have it on the layout.

George

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I probably will attempt it. There's nothing commercially available that's even close. I don't have plans, just some photos and reference material.

PRR - got to be plans in the archives // museum somewhere, but extracting them.......

Anyway, a handful of photos will probably suffice since you're going to compress it.

A few years back, I was in contact with one of the archivists for the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. The archives are in Lewistown, PA in the former PRR station. I had inquired about the plans for the Weirton Junction (WC) tower. He told me not to hold my breath because there were 10 boxcars full of documents still to be examined, identified, scanned, and stored. Fortunately, he stumbled across those plans purely by chance and got a copy to me.

As to the station's plan, I hope they are somewhere in those 10 boxcars of stuff. Only time (I don't know how much) will tell. In any case, I don't have the space to make the station to scale. It will have to be shortened. Nonetheless, I plan to have it on the layout.

Hence the "but extracting them.......",

Someday I should inquire about the fate of all the CVRR info since the PRR owned the line well be fore it was absorbed. Just to get a decent listing of rolling stock in the 20th Century would be "interesting" to have in hand.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Your two partners-in-pleasantness appear to be helping make the entire project well worth your combined time, and enriched by the precious memories among you being made, as well as an enjoyable project for trains.
Congratulations on your little bit of heaven right there.

Thank you. I am truly blessed.

George

I can see that and feel that about you, George. It's probably why you are such a pleasant and positive voice on this forum.

[healey36]

I would think a few photographs would be adequate to fashion a decent representation of the depot, especially if you're dialing back the footprint.

Aren't there some "through-holes" you need to cut in the partition?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Aren't there some "through-holes" you need to cut in the partition?

Some place for the cat to chase the mice though?

[G3750]

Your two partners-in-pleasantness appear to be helping make the entire project well worth your combined time, and enriched by the precious memories among you being made, as well as an enjoyable project for trains.
Congratulations on your little bit of heaven right there.

Thank you. I am truly blessed.

George

I can see that and feel that about you, George. It's probably why you are such a pleasant and positive voice on this forum.

Thanks Frank!!

George

[G3750]

I would think a few photographs would be adequate to fashion a decent representation of the depot, especially if you're dialing back the footprint.

Aren't there some "through-holes" you need to cut in the partition?

Yes, there are some "through-holes" that must be cut. I decided that I will apply the backdrop to the divider, then place the track, and then cut the holes after I've figured out precisely where they go. My ability to predict the precise location of these holes is pretty poor.

George

[G3750]

Aren't there some "through-holes" you need to cut in the partition?

Some place for the cat to chase the mice though?

I don't think we have mice, but if we did this cat would probably be useless.

George

[G3750]

Updated 8/3/2018 (2):

I have been examining my list of lumber (plywood sheets) and identifying them. In doing so, I noticed that I have a particularly narrow aisle in front of the Ohio River bridge. Here's the original plan.

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If I shorten the peninsula holding the City of Weirton by just 1 foot in length, I will pick up a wider aisle to the left and just above.

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I think this makes the aisle just below the bridge about 6" bigger. Thoughts?

George

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I think this makes the aisle just below the bridge about 6" bigger. Thoughts?

Room you can grow into..........

[robert.]

You could build it on some flatcars.