Recent content by Peugeotlew

We have just started our layout after months of planning and buying goodies. It will be a combination of the B&O and D&H Railroads. The layout will be 6x8 using code 83 atlas track and Digitrax Chief DCC. We have posted the first photos in the gallery. Search Peugeotlew or Linda and Lew to find...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years !!! Lew & Linda Odenton MD.

My wife actually got me into it . I had alway wanted to get into it but had other hobbies. Now it is one thing that we both enjoy. Linda actually buys more engines and rolling stock than I do :-) She loves the B&O and I the D&H. Her plan is to re-create parts of the Brunswick MD yard. She grew...

Athearn PA-PB units were found on e-bay.

My 2 engines are Athearn one is detailed GE U-boat and the Alco's. Linda has a cheap Bachmann FT-A with DCC and a Proto2000 GP-9 phase 2 from the B&O historical society. Our biggest purchases are the Digitrax chief and rolling stock. What I would like to find now is a Baldwin sharknose in D&H...

I did look up the Sante Fe PA's and found some history including the sale to D&H . The warbonnet is the same :) It's a shame that only several survive. Most went to Mexico. One is in a museum in Mexico and two came home. one for a tourist train and one to the smithsonian. I did win the E-Bay...

We are watching a pair of Alco PA-PB"s on ebay in the D&H gray and blue yellow lightning stripe. That will work nice with our passenger cars . The D&H stuff is a bit harder to find than most lines but... they were what I grew up around. Russ do you have any photos of the paint scheme you speak of?

The process has begun! Linda and I have bought some equipment of our favorite fallen flags and started clearing the room. Have begun the e-bay thing to help finance this endevor. Boy oh boy did we have lots of things to move and sell. Being into french cars in a past life I have posted to one of...

The welcome here is amazing, thank you all for your hospitality. We feel right at home here. Once we get started we will keep everyone posted on progress.

Thank you :-)

As a ready mix concrete driver I really like your new setup.I have plans to incorperate a quarry and batch plant in my layout as well. Good luck!!

Ohh and there is so much here.... phew

Hello all! just found this board and love it. My wife and I have decided to build our first layout . We are using HO scale and the B&O and D&H are the railroads. My wifes dad worked for the B&O for years and I grew up in D&H country in upstate NY. I hope we can get the info we need and help...