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POVA on the Cover of a Magazine Journals/Blogs
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Regular poster 411 posts Matt Forcum Regular poster 411 posts
Matt Forcum

A friend in the hobby pointed me to the February issue of  Railfan & Railroad where the POVA is featured on the cover of the magazine!  The article itself is very cool and very informative. I learned a lot I did not know about the railroad's history. I also finally got a good, clear sense of day-to-day operations on the modern POVA railroad. This helped to confirm that my freelanced approach to this railroad is indeed prototypical and should serve to re-create the feeling of modern shortline railroading in the pacific northwest nicely.

 

I must say, it is a bit overwhelming to have such a surge of information arrive on my doorstep after spending years and years trying to slowly piece together the puzzle that is this railroad from various blog postings, pictures, google maps, etc.

 

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The Metaline Falls Railroad Blog

The Metaline Falls Railroad Youtube Channel
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AJKleipass Regular poster 212 posts
AJKleipass

I know the feeling...

Research was a... PITA.... in the pre-internet days, so some of us are kind of spoiled by being able to google, say, the XY&Z's Zeta branch and getting 50,000 hits, while others of us get "nothing found, check your spelling and try again" messages for our preferred road.

While I do enjoy the research aspect of the hobby, I will admit that there is nothing sweeter than stumbling upon a goldmine of information all in one place.

AJ Kleipass

Proto-freelance modeling the Tri-State System c.1942
The layout is based upon the operations of the Delaware Valley Railway,
the New York, Susquehanna & Western, the Wilkes-Barre & Eastern,
the Middletown & Unionville, and the New York, Ontario & Western.

 
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Lancaster Central RR Frequent poster 574 posts
Lancaster Central RR

My layout is based on an obscure short line.

Google returns the same results as books on other local short lines and the trolley system. Tidbits of information are out there. I have found the railroad was mentioned in a law journal and the ends of the railroad were fairly well documented. The basic route is found on maps. I found a picture at work of the railroad station that was the southern terminus of the line and the northern terminus of a narrow gauge railroad. I don’t believe that there is a goldmine of information on it anywhere.
 

I could model the railroad in my town but I don’t feel like it. It’s well documented except between 1831-1880. 

Lancaster Central Railroad &

Philadelphia & Baltimore Central RR &

Lancaster, Oxford & Southern Transportation Co. 

Shawn H. , modeling 1980 in Lancaster county, PA - alternative history of local  railroads. 
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