East Penn Traction Club Recent News
The 2015 Meet location has been selected to be the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
Click here to read about it.
In Memoriam - Richard Vible
Services were held on Saturday Jan. 18, 2014. Rich's life will be covered in a club newsletter.
The Hylands will be running a small N scale layout at the
Gaithersburg Model Train Show next to the Golden Spike Artifacts show
on Nov. 3rd SUNDAY ONLY. This is one of the prime railroad and transit
artifacts shows on the east coast.
This is being run at the Mongtomery County Fairgrounds (Maryland) in
Gaithersburg from 9 to 4. All East Penn Members get into both shows
for FREE.
All East Penn members have to do is wear either their East Penn Badge
or Shirt and stop by the N Scale layout first to say Hi! and more
importantly get their hands stamped to go on to the Artifacts show.
Further information for the show can be found at: www.gserr.com.
Directions to getting there: From Baltimore and Philadelphia: I-95
South to I-495 West to I-270 North. Take Exit 11 (Montgomery
Village/Fairgrounds). At next light make a right onto Rt. 355 South.
Make a right onto Perry Parkway. Fairground Entrance will be on Left
1/2 mile
From the South: Same as above except take I-95 North.
From the West: Take I-70 Merge onto I-270 South. Take Exit 11
(Montgomery Village/Quince Orchard Road) then make left onto
Montgomery Village Ave. At next light make Right onto Rt.355 South.
Make Right onto Perry Parkway. Fairground Entrance will be on the left
1/2 mile.
The Story of the Wogglebug Trolley Nov. 4, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Mike Szilagyi, club member, will talk about the electric trolley that connected Worcester to Norristown and Skippack during 1907-1925, making over a dozen trips a day on tracks that ran along Valley Forge Rd and Skippack Pike. Click here for a flyer for more information.
Will be at Farmer's Union Hall, Center Point, Worcester. For related information about this trolley, visit this website Mike created.
Philadelphia Chapter NRHS will be auctioning off some railroadiana material, mostly books, from our Chapter storage site at our meeting on Friday evening, November 15.
This material is from several collections of deceased members who have left things to the Chapter.
We now meet at Drexel University, 121 Randell Hall, which is accessed through the entrance to the venerable Main Hall at 3141 Chestnut Street. There is a handicapped entrance on 32nd Street Walk, on the side of the building. Our meetings now start at 7:00 PM, and the auction will continue until 9:30 PM at the latest. We ask that members bring nothing to sell, as the material we have on hand will more than cover the time period. The public is more than welcome to attend.
Questions may be directed to me at ayrestower@comcast.net or by phone to 215-947-5769. Click here to see a list of some of the material to be sold.
Best Wishes,
R. L. Eastwood, Jr., President
Philadelphia Chapter, NRHS
Peter Ehrlich has released a book, San Francisco's F-Line, the subject of which operates a good number of former Philadelphia, Newark, and San Francisco cars. He says, "This book, five years in the making, consists of 13 chapters and over 500 photos, mostly color, taken by me and many other acclaimed photographers such as Jeff Moreau, Don Jewell, Kevin Sheridan, Jeremy Whiteman, Ira Swett, and Karl Johnson, to name a few. Many early images came from the San Francisco Public Library archives. It has been released in time to help celebrate Muni's 100th Anniversary." The book can be ordered from Trafford Publishing or Amazon. The DVD is also available at the author's website, PDE Photography. (posted 9/18/12)
Member Paul Mayer won first place in the traction category at the Grand Rapids, MI NMRA National 2012 meet for his HO Eastern Michigan brass model.
Special thanks to John Marton for his help with the colors and Eric Diehl
for providing the Eastern Michigan logo for the white decals. Click here to see a picture. (posted 8/16/12)
The list of light and heavy rail operators has been updated as of 6/15/12. Click here to visit the list.
Volume 1 of the book Making All Stops - New York City Subway Photography has just been produced and you can learn more about it at www.makingallstops.com. Volume 2 is in the works. (posted 6/16/12)
Rich Allman wrote a summary of the 2012 Boston Trolley Meet, which you can click here to read.
Rich also has these pictures to share with you. (posted May 2012)
A light rail vehicle (LRV) model successfully ran on EPTC models at the 2012 Boston Trolley Meet. Click here to see a picture. Though not on EPTC modules, here are four videos of the model on Bay State Model Railroad Museum’s O-scale layout: (updated Aug 2012, thanks to Charlie Pitts)
Rosindale Square At the Arborway
On the Interurban Line At Highlands
Two presentations were added recently to the website:
Some Tips for Pan and Pole Operation
Shown by Rich Crooks at the April 2012 EPTC meeting. (posted on Modeling Page May 2012)
Getting Going in HO Traction
Presented by Bob Dietrich and Rich Allman at the 2012 Boston Trolley Meet. (posted Modeling Page May 2012)
