Last week I was out of town and only had time to post one photo that was on my cell phone without any information about what was in the scene. Here is that same picture:
OK, so here is some information along with more photos. That is a scene of Longfellow PA which is a few miles west of Lewistown. I tried to capture the rural nature of the area by only including on structure in a long stretch of scenery rather than just throwing in every building I own. The house is a limited run Lionel house that was designed by Harry Heileke (sp?) and it includes tons of details like brick mortar, downspouts, shrubs, awnings, and much more. It's a great model and I have not seen any on sale for a long time. I added a foundation and an integral garage which is so common in the hills and mountains of Pennsylvania. It also has typical stone walls along the drive way and the stairs leading up to the front door.
Now here are views to the east and west showing the rural scenery and cornfields along with PA Route 103 passing through the countryside. The Penn Central mainline (ex-PRR Middle Division) has now been reduced down to two tracks (was actually three in the PC era and reduced to two by Conrail in the mid 1980's).
And here's one I added late with a PC train blasting east towards Enola:
In an unrelated topic, here are some Supertrees hanging in my workshop last night while they dry after applying ground foam. They will be used in the area of the layout depicting Spruce Creek which is currently under construction:
That's it for now!
