Yearly Archives: 2018

Stoney Brook Bridge in Hopewell, NJ

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Yesterday was a cold wet rainy day, but I was off from work and wanted to be on the road seeing something. I took the morning to explore a little more on the Reading’s line through New Jersey.

I took some time to explore this four track bridge which spans Stony Brook and Pennington-Hopewell Road. It has three arches over the brook and a steel girder/concrete through span over the road.

This is located between Pennington and Hopewell, NJ. The bridge is still used today, but the line no longer supports four tracks worth of traffic, only a single track remains today.

Also visible on under the bridge it appears that the span was two tracks at one time and widened with tracks on either side of the original abutment which was in the center.

In Memoriam: Lee Stabb

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I received a sad email today notifying me of the passing of long time O scale modeler Lee Stabb.

I couple of years ago I had the pleasure of visiting Lee at his home to purchase a model from him. He was a great host and gave me a tour of his layout which filled the second story over the very large garage. We never did find the models I had come over to purchase, but I did purchase a different locomotive from him that day.

Here are some views of his layout. Including a few of the Reading N-1’s that were built from the IHB 0-8-0. I saw at least four on the layout that day.

It was always nice to talk with Lee at the trains shows, I will miss him.

2018 Strasburg O Scale Show – April

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Today was the Spring Strasburg O Scale Show. Rich Yoder and John Dunn put on another fine show. I was busy most of the day helping my friend on his table but did get around the show to see some of the models.

There was a far amount of nice models for the Reading Modeler. I saw a pair of Weaver Crusader locomotives and one set of cars. Still think I should have brought that passenger car set home with me. That would have pushed me towards modeling the Reading as it ran through New Jersey. I have to say I’ve been leaning that way a lot lately.

There was also a nice Overland Reading T-1 on a table. Lots of other things to look at also.