Rochester PAL layouts(as per the 1950's Bantam Book) Open House 11/24/18

[ADCX Rob]

11/24/18 - the PAL layouts(as per the Bantam Book "Model Railroading") of the Edgerton Model Railroad Club are open to the public from 11:00am to 2:00pm for those of you traveling in the Rochester NY area. Details HERE...  directions HERE.

[wrmcclellan]

Would love to see that. I still have the paperback (many of the pages are loose) and browsed those pages on the PAL layout for hours and hours.

[Benjamin Maggi]

I was a member with my father (who was the Secretary) during the early 1990s. The layouts were great. I went with my wife about 10 years ago and they looked dated. Even worse, one of the layouts was left unattended and kids were running it. They even ran one train into the river! I don't know what happened, but it was a horrible memory.

I hope to go back sometime and have a better experience. The place was a lot of fun as a kid.

[ADCX Rob]

Benjamin Maggi

...I went with my wife about 10 years ago and they looked dated. Even worse, one of the layouts was left unattended and kids were running it...

Oh that had to be A LOT longer ago than that, because the layouts are all updated considerably as of just over 10 years ago... the Spring layout is done entirely in GarGraves track & switches, the Summer & Fall layouts in K-Line Super K & Super Snap with multi-level looping, the winter layout used a combination of Lionel & K-Line track & switches then but is all SuperSnap now.

The lighting is all updated, LionChief & Legacy are used, Z4000s are used for power, the subway has been reworked to alternate two trains, trains from Spring & Fall travel into the Winter layout now as well.