My story is kind of hilarious but also sad. Briefly it all happened 22 years ago when my then wife decided she had enough of me and moved out with my collection of HO trains, a collection I started 12 years before that. in the beginning of 2009 my son brought what was left of the tracks, loco's and rolling stock. Obviously after years of lying in a storage shed on the farm there was and still is a lot of damage control to be done, so far I have succeeded in restoring all the electric units and diesels to running order.

We continue to roll through the Allentown area as we approach the station there. There has been a lot of interest in the use of foamcore for structures. There are other uses for it as I'll be pointing out. I don't know as yet how to go about doing an article on the subject. Anyway, let's continue our trip around the PWRR.

Obviousy, the most important thing about modeling a large city is to make it look like a large city. To create a small town atmosphere with the structures and call it Chicago is stretching it a bit. I'll describe some of the techniques I used to attempt to capture the look and feel of Philadelphia.