What is "Public Delivery Track"?

PDT is a dealer in Paso Robles, California. Beth Marshall runs it. They do a lot of the train shows. Good dealer, but generally sell at MSRP. I've bought from them and they've been good to deal with.

Public Delivery Track

A vendor in the Brown Hall and also a seller on eBay.  HER name is Beth.

 

Bill

They're lower than that on-line.

Hang on there a minute, amigo!  I thought you were the fellow who haunted all the hallowed halls of York.  If that was true, you would certainly have run into Beth Marshall and her Public Delivery Track operation in the Brown Hall.  Takes up a good portion of one side of that hall.

 

I've acquired some hard-to-find items from Beth at York, and at what I feel were good prices.

Eddie,

Say it isn't so!!

 

How could you possibly miss Public Delivery Track in the Brown Hall at York?  I thought you roamed all the halls several times?

 

Beth always has items that are hard to find elsewhere.

BOB, I'm surprised that they are not in the orange hall. I go in the brown hall once, and I go thru it in 5 or less minutes, and you are greeted by a dealer in the middle of the hall with a lot of junk. If you look back at that post where I said I go thru the halls several times, I said that I skip the brown hall & the black hall.

Public Delivery Track is the official term the Pennsylvania Railroad and probably others used to decribe what we often call "Team Tracks".    It was a track in the station area that cars could be set out on for customers who did not have their own siding.    The customer could then come with his team and wagon in early days, or his truck in later days and unload his car.  

As several above noted PDT is a fixture in the Brown Hall at YORK and IIRC Beth is the Hall Captain.

 

Have purchased Atlas & Weaver from her at York & on Line at good prices.

 

IIRC she was originally based in Pennsylvania but relocated a couple of years age.

 

A nice lady to do business with,

 

Tony

Up on "The D & H Bridge Line"

Beth originally operated out of SE Pennsylvania, thus the name which prrjim describes above.

And when I've found 2 rail items on her site that I wanted, she takes the time to swap out for the 3 rail trucks.  When I get to go to York she is either my first or second stop (along with Vince's)...

 

Last year she brought N&W Broadway Ltd Passenger cars I wanted, saved me the freight AND beat the price she had on her website. She's first rate in my book!

 

Gilly

 

Geez, you guys are a bit hard on eddie g. There are plenty of vendors at York whose names I don't know; even some I talk to and buy from regularly. If not for the fact that Beth is always at First Frost and Spring Thaw in Allentown I am not sure I would know the name of her business. I always pay cash so never have to write a check or sign a receipt, so to me she's the vendor with the long wall, and nice to deal with, too.

Her display is always next to the side door. Can't miss it.  Well, maybe, with your eyes closed.  LOL

 

Rick

She's a good dealer at York and a good dealer mail order.

Personally, if I ran into a woman vendor who occupied a good portion of one side of a hall at York, I'd probably remember.

 

Interesting to hear the origin of the term "Public Delivery Track."

Beth is a good dealer with a ton of stuff at shows, and what's real cool is since she has a Paso Robles, CA location she's close to me to do a pick up. She also consigns at a local hobby shop.

hopefully beth posts" who is eddie G"? hard to believe the main man of york doesnt know of pdt.-jim

A.K.A "team track" is a simple spur or siding that handles shipments for a variety of customers who do not have direct rail access or a siding of their own. The track gets its name from the early days of railroading when teams of horses would pull the wagons to these tracks in town to receive or ship goods.

 

Team tracks are found from small towns to large cities. In larger areas, a team track might have adjoining storage sheds, unloading cranes, platforms or other facilities. A small town team track may be nothing more than a rail spur with an adjoining gravel lot.

 

Because they serve multiple customers, almost any type of freight car could be found on a team track. Regular customers may have platforms, pits or machines that make loading or unloading easier. This "no rules" industry is a perfect fit for model railroads. You have free license to spot any car there at any time, and the "industry" consumes almost no space. Often found near the station, you could add a team track to every town on your layout. Add gravel or paved lot, a team of horses (or a truck or two) and start spotting that freight.

Here's a team track about 3 miles from my home in Midlothian VA. You notice the difference in ballast. The lower elevation insures that a rolling car won't block the main.

 

 

 

 

Peter