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Open Houses
Scheduled for:
Saturday, June
7
(Click the railroad name to visit website, click address for Google
Maps)
NOTE: If it rains Saturday, SOME of these folks will hold a raindate open house on Sunday, June 8.
BOB WHIPPLE
The West Berlin
Garden Railroad
348 Thurman Avenue
West Berlin, NJ 08091
10:00 am - 4:00 pm (Raindate, June 8, NOON-5:00 pm)
The WBGRR is completely elevated. In 2005.
Bob contracted Eaglewings Iron Craft to manufacture his layout
base on his own design. It has worked out very well and, it allows
running of trains (and Open Houses) to happen more frequent.
The layout features 3 main lines, a rail yard, a trolley line and
the Beatles! (see page 101 in Oct ’07 Garden Railways magazine)
There also is a point to point RDC line that resembles actual
locations in Cape May, NJ along the old PRSL line. There is no era
that Bob runs in particular so, you’ll never know what will be
running.
Charlie and Jane Kratz
Cranberry Creek and Pinelands Railroad
55 Meadowview Court
Shamong, New Jersey 08088
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
(Raindate, June 8, NOON-5:00 pm)
This railroad has been in progress for five years, with over
600 feet of stainless steel track. It has a two-track main
and an RDC-trolley line, with multiple bridges and a tunnel.
A recently-completed rail loop meanders over bridges and a
stream with waterfalls. The stream culminates in a koi pond.
NOTE: The Kratz' live in Shamong, but their mailing
address is Vincentown. Use map to Shamong.
Gene's layout is a large one with a large pond.
Features include on-board control on most trains and on-board video cameras.
Come out and see many rains running at once.
GEORGE CLARK
86 Saratoga Road
Stratford, NJ 08084
10:00 am - 4:00 pm (Raindate, June 8,
NOON-5:00 pm)
George has the second oldest Garden RR in the area dating
back to the early 1990's.
BOB SHAW
The
Camden Junction
1018 Reeves Avenue
Camden, NJ 08105
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
This above ground layout was made out of necessity - severe
flooding that ruined the ground layout. This 40x15 features three
mans and a point to point trolley. Motive power is Reading and Pennsy.
This will consist of passenger, freight, and circus cars . Trolley is
redecorated as a "Public Service" car which ran in Camden and parts
of South Jersey up to the early thirties.
JOHN TOMCHICK
2389 Sunnyhill Avenue
WIlliamstown, NJ 08094 (NOTE: see directions below)
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
John's
layouts include both a garden and an outdoor railroad.
Directions: Take Blackhorse Pike (RT 42) to
Williamstown. In Williamstown (at Gees Diner) RT 42 becomes
RT 322 East. Stay on RT 322. There is a light at the
New Pete Diner. The next traffic signal will be Whitehall
Road. Pass a school and a fire station. You will then
see several lakes. Make a right at the second set onto
Lakeside Drive. The old (now closed) Cecil Deli will be on
the corner. You will see numbered avenues on your left and
the lake on your right. After Ninth Avenue will be Sunnyhill
- turn left. Go to the top of the hill. Sunnyhill will
make a sharp right. Pass Victory and 2389 will be on your
left. Pull into the driveway.
BOB UTLEY
505 Shadyside Ave
Lindenwold, NJ 08021
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
(Raindate, June 8,
NOON-5:00 pm)
My street is located off Berlin Rd. Across from the animal welfare
shelter and just down the road from the Lindenwold high speed
line. There is a Shadyside Country Store on the same side as my
road. Our house is the last house on the left, it's a dead end
street a block long.
My layout is based on Norfolk Southern Railway. I am running
modern equipment, but you might see Thomas the Tank engine puffing
around. I am just starting out, but I do have about 150 feet of
track laid and about 140 tons of dirt mountains with some trees
planted and many more planned.
PETE EGGINK
Petersburg &
Charlottesville Railroad
1100 Calvert Road
North East, MD 21901
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Petersburg and Charlottesville Railroad has moved! Its new
location is in Calvert, Maryland, a few miles east of Rising Sun.
The new railroad consists of a garden railroad built in an
established flower garden and a basement layout for storing
trains. As of May 1, the garden railroad consists of a 150-foot
loop, reversing track, and access track to the basement. There
will probably be more railroad built by early June. Come on out
for a visit, and help us identify the various flowers, shrubs, and
trees at our new home.
You can park on the grass on either side of the driveway.
DIRECTIONS
From Newark go 12 miles west to 272 and turn left. In one block
turn right onto Brick Meetinghouse Road (which becomes Calvert
Road). Our house is 6/10 mile on the left.
From I-95 go west to Exit 100. Take 272 North about 6 miles. A
block past the Citgo station turn left onto Brick Meetinghouse
Road. Our house is 6/10 mile on left.
KARL REICHENBACH
Karlin Valley Railway
36 Porter Road
North East, MD 21901
1:00 pm to 7:00 pm
The Karlin Valley Railway is a narrow gauge logging and mining
short line set in the early 1950's It features three towns, a coal
mine, a logging camp, a saw mill, a complete engine service area
with a roundhouse and turntable, a freight yard with a large
freight warehouse. The layout has many bridges and long trestles.
It also features many scratch built buildings along with kit and
ready built buildings.
The layout was started in April of 2004 with phase 6 completed in
2007. It is far from completed and remains a work in progress.
From Newark take route 273 into Maryland to route 272 the second red
light in Maryland. Turn left on 272 and go about 2 miles to England
Creamery Road. Turn right on england Creamery Road and go 2 blocks
to Porter Road. Turn left on Porter Road to the third house on the
right.
From I-95 Take Exit 100 to Route 272 north. Go about 2 1/2 miles to
England Creamery Road. Turn Left on England Creamery Road. Go 2
blocks to Porter Road. Turn Left on Porter Road to the third house
on the right.
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