Category: Canton RR Interchange

I’m a Chessie and Conrail guy at heart. But you can’t really talk about the Penn Mary area without bringing the Canton Railroad into the conversation. The Canton RR was started in 1906 as a way to bring customers into the then-undeveloped area. Neither the B&O nor the Pennsy wanted …

I previously talked about the layout of the General Motors plant and how I thought it would easily translate to a track plan. And for the most part, it did. At right is my original track plan covering the area in and around GM, including Penn Mary Yard and the …

As we covered in a previous post, (and, if you’re reading regularly, are probably sick of seeing,) I decided to start with the area of the layout that included the GM assembly plant, Penn Mary Yard, the Canton RR interchange, and the line to Bethlehem Steel. The photo at the …

Once I had my concept in place, and a draft of the track plan I was happy with (I’ve come to believe that a track plan is never complete, it’s just the latest draft, but more on that later), it was time to start building. I made the decision long …