Peter Becker MRRC Eastbound

Peter Becker Community (PBC) RR Club
is a senior living community locarted in Harleysville PA

The HO scale railroad is controlled by both DC and DCC NCE. Layout is a folded dog bone with an up and over double tracked mainline. A mainline turning wye leads to the engine terminal, main passenger station and food processing district. A lower-level loop to loop line traverses parallel to the main line. A narrow-gauge double loop track plan with a passing siding, industry spur, and small town is at the center of the larger main line dog bone peninsula. And the urban trolley line connects a local rail station with the town.

The layout represents the transition period from the late 1940s to the 1960s, illustrating the shift from steam to first- and second-generation diesel operations on the Reading,
Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley, and other eastern railroads of that time. Motive power, rolling stock, and infrastructure embody this theme. Central to our operations is the turning wye from the main line leading to the engine terminal, main passenger station and food processing facilities. Steam facilities include a turntable, six stall round house with coal, sand, ash and water tower and spouts. A separate diesel shop completes the motive power facilities. The main passenger terminal accommodates four full length passenger trains and an engine storage track. Also included are eight freight yard storage tracks
and a freight house siding. The food processing district for dairy,slaughterhouse, and canning operations, is adjacent to the engine terminal receiving and departure tracks.
Industries serviced along the main line include the Lowry Coal Company and the industrial park home to Armstrong