Glen Larimer's HO Scale Appalachian & Atlantic Nor'easter


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The Appalachian and Atlantic Nor'easter is my home railroad which operates much like one of the "RailLink" type roads. The geography of my layout represents the Lehigh Valley and Erie Lackawanna as they follow their separate routes from their respective Jersey ports to Buffalo. Not having a lot of space (about a 12' x 9' third floor room), I settled for 18'r min. curves in order to fit everything I was interested in modeling.

"Newark" is represented by staging tracks under the layout, but Bethlehem (my home town) is fully accounted for, including a Bethlehem Steel blast furnace and mill buildings. I am also scratchbuilding the old Lehigh Valley/Reading passenger station, about which I've heard rumors of future (real-life) restoration! The second level of the layout climbs into the Poconos (the EL emerges from hidden tracks) into Wilkes-Barre/Scranton yards. I am attempting some sort of kitbash for the fantastic Lackawanna Station.

Past Scranton is a compressed Nicholson Viaduct before a return loop sends trains back down the other side of the mountains to the yards in Buffalo. The layout also includes a line into another room representing the (MAJORLY) compressed Water Level Route to a Chicago port area. Operations center around coal hauling and steel production, but also include several smaller factories and even a grain elevator on the branchline to the imaginary town of Stewart's Haven.

Most of the time I pretend to be dispatching during the early '70s when both the LV and EL were hanging on. I don't really model a specific era, and I often "skip" into the Conrail and Norfolk Southern eras (I hate Penn Central). Even though I have a good deal of steam and early diesels, I really like modern equipment the best - even some fantasy engines like a Lehigh Valley SD80MAC and AC4400 will appear on the layout.
  I know my layout may seem somewhat eclectic, but I like so many different things (as do my 7 and 4-year-old sons). I really try to keep under control by at least limiting myself to geographically correct roadnames - which may be difficult in the future with all this merger talk! 

Glen Larimer (gscclarimer at earthlink dot net)
Royersford, PA

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This page last updated on 01/16/2004 .