The last article for the standard gauge portion of the Penn Western is based in the Harrisburg area. I recently completed a major reworking of the 7' X 12' section so that I could add a Conrail interchange and expand the Sn3 East Broad Top. There's a lot of "open land" for new structures to be modeled. The background scenery contains the Susquehanna River as well as the state capitol building.   
 

 
As we near Harrisburg we pass a typical PA farm, The barn is scratchbuilt from, you guessed it, foamcore or foam board as it is sometimes called. The hex signs were done from pictures on the internet. I traced around a quarter on heavy cardboard and did the hex signs with color felt-tip pens. The stock unloading ramp was scratchbuilt, When I finished, a friend noticed that there weren't any cow chips on the ramp. I had to add some with a magic marker. Talk about weathering.

S scale is truly blessed in the area of rural items. Over the years ERTL has produced a huge amount of 1:64 scale farm items. They make farm equipment, farm structures, farm vehicles and all types of farm animals. I don't know why more S scalers don't take advantage of this. ERTL items in the scene include the silo, farmhouse, trucks, tracktors, workers and animals. The stock cars are S Helper Service (SHS).
 
The woolen mill in front is scratchbuilt out of heavy cardboard. It's based on a N scale factory that my son had. I liked the design. The factory in the rear is a kit-bashed Korber S scale (yes they did S very briefly) engine house. Behind the Digital sign and on the background scenery is the state capitol building. I looked for a good photo of the building that I could blend into the acrylic hand painted part in a way that looked natural.
   

The station in Harrisburg is a foamcore structure based on the station that famous HO modeler Whit Towers designed and built. RMC had an article many years ago about that station. My model had a cupola that was destroyed in a flood that I caused when I messed up the installation of a line to a refrigerator ice maker. I was able to repair the main building.
 
The cement plant is a reworked HO building made by Ernie Rink in the 1950's.
  
The milk station was built from an RMC article. I used cardboard and commercial siding and roof material along with Grandt Line S scale windows.
 
A shortened NASG Armco Steel Building sits on an old Plasticville freight platform.

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