To All: Today I start a new series called Railroad Maintenance of Way. Pictured is a Burro crane used by many railroads for light duty line side work. They have enough power to pull a gondola that may contain new ties or other supplies. I captured this example of a the CSX (B&O) Burro Crane. Powered models of these have been produced. Photo by Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.

   I'd like to add some signals to a segment of my TT layout and need some input from those who know how the Pennsy would have typically signaled the location in the mid 1950's era.   My freelance plan has a mainline running thru the layout with a passing siding,a spur, and a turnout to the branchline.  I'd like to install signals on the mainline and make the branchline dark territory.  The adjacent turnouts to the branchline and the passing siding are about 2 car lengths apart if that matters.

I'm looking for information about the 53' GSC Piggyback cars used back in the 1950/1960 eras. I have two of the Walthers Mainline HO models that differ from TOFC cars I previously purchased. My question is basically how they loaded the semi trailers onto these cars. The other TOFC cars I have could be loaded from the ends using platforms, but the GSC version has only a single loading step on each end. Also, the "B" end of the car has a brake post that would seem to be in the way for loading from a platform.