Scratchbuild an HO scale coal dealer

摘要

My layout, in compressed form, represents Dunellen, New Jersey, along the Central Railroad of New Jersey Central Division mainline in 1953 before the grade separation project of 1954 began. That narrow time period allows me to run models of the CNJ's last steam locomotives as well as its first diesels. There were a multitude of lineside industries in the Dunellen and Plainfield areas served by the "Plainfield Drill" that the late Warren Crater, a CNJ engineer, wrote about in the January and February, 1951, issues of Railroad Model Craftsman.