From other sources, I have just been told that lift bridges would not have been allowed in the Pittsburgh area because of the high density of traffic in the rivers.  I also have been informed that there would not have been any kind of canal coming into PA or OH from Lake Erie to allow boats to get any further inland to connect to the Ohio River because the railroads would have opposed it because it would be a major loss in revenue from teh iro ore and coal traffic.  So now i'm in the very bad position of having a model of a single track bridge that i want to incorpo

Hello All,

This is my first attempt at layout design.  I want to model a portion of the Newark and New York division of the CNJ in HO scale.  In my design I am concentrating on the area where I grew up, Jersey City.  My design elements incorporate the following:

My wife says I don't listen but to prove her wrong I listened to your comments. I cleaned the slate and started over trying my best to take into account all of your advice. I went back and re-read my books and studied track plans from the paper magazine. The result is a much simpler, more build-able track plan that fulfills all of the G&D's. Does this look more like a realistic approach?

BTW I have it built in XTrackCAD also so I am sure the turnout angles and such are workable. As a matter of fact it utilizes mostly #10 turnouts. How sweet.

The Frelanced South Erie, Titansburg, and Iriton RR, will be an industrial railroad that serves various industries in northwest PA, and northeast, OH including a Lake Port, fully integrated Steel Mill, cement plant, and many smaller industries including some in Erie, PA.