For this week, here are photos of some new acquisitions, including purchases from York. First, inspired by a photo seen in Pennsy Diesel Years volume whatever is a Burlington GP-30 operating with a few PRR GP's. This apparently was common in the early 60's. The Burlington unit is a Williams GP 30 which I consider to be one of Williams nicest models, that is ripe for production in many more road names. Since it does not have TMCC, we are using it here to push two MTH non-powered units. Man, I wish Lionel and MTH still did dummy units!
Next is something I hoped for and lucked out since MTH did their new WM circus scheme Western Maryland F units as separate units rather than a three unit set. This came from Mercer Junction Train Shoppe, not York BTW. As luck would have it, they did a single non-powered A unit. I just had to get that to go with my set of Lionel black and gold speed lettered WM F--7's. So we just took the dummy Lionel A unit off the set, substituted the circus scheme dummy MTH unit, programmed the train to start up in reverse, and voila! A prototypical arrangement of WM paint schemes as would have been seen in the 1960's, though of course, never on the Middle Division of the PRR!
Lastly, at my son Steven's urging, I finally replaced the faded out creeping phlox in front of the house at Mattawana with a fresh batch from Scenic Express. They were in a bin right out front, and caught my eye as I walked down an aisle in the Orange Hall, so I grabbed a package!
That's all the photos this week!
And hey, Peter Condro! That's a pretty nice structure for a nephrologist to build! Did they teach you that in residency? Ha, ha!
