The Reading Company

East Penn Branch

(and others)

Welcome to the web site about my model railroad. My railroad is based on the Reading Company's East Penn and C & F Branches in the mid-1950's.

12/14/2009 - Building benchwork. Slow but steady progress. Also working on some decoder installs and a shell swap to get a more reliable drive under the nice Athearn RS-3 shell. Project section updated.

10/05/2009 - Move complete, and new track plan complete! Plan incorporates the C&F Branch from Alburtis to Chapman Yard, plus the Lehigh Cement plant in Fogelsville. I have a large pile of lumber on hand to begine benchwork construction, but I'm down for a while due to having my gall bladder removed. I should be back in the fray in a few more weeks.

07/05/2009 - Not much happening, moving to a larger place soon so a new track plan will be designed. Started work on Fast Tracks turnouts.

05/05/2009 - Project and track plan sections updated

03/29/2009 - New decoder install in DCC section

03/22/2009 - Project section updated.

Coming Soon! DoctorDCC DCC Decoder Installation Services! Email DoctorDCC@lehighgrads.net for more details.

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I occasionally sell surplus model railroad (and computer) equipment on eBay. My eBay user ID is 'trainbytes'. Click HERE to view my current auctions.

New location, new layout. Maybe I'll be better at taking pictures of the progress this time around. For now I will be building only a small module or two, as that is all I have room for. Hopefully these will be integrated into a larger layout sometime in the future.

Track Plan We have a plan! (new 10/05/2009)

Doctor DCC NEW DCC Services

Projects See what I'm currently working on (huge backlog of kits!)

Construction Progress First module being built

DCC DCC Information and links to decoder installs

Decoder Installs Direct link to the decoder installs page

Links NEW interesting model railroad links

Special Recognition

Rolling Stock Roster Just a pair of Bowser 55t hoppers

Locomotive Roster Reading GP7 #628

Old Stuff:

Construction Progress Old layout construction photos