The Märklin Diary of a 44 yr old Kid
 Track, overhead, and hand-carved brick work on a module owned by Dave Gallagher. |
 A Septa PCC Car speeds away from Bob Dietrich's South Hills Junction module. |
 More of that overhead with a trolley pole on the wire. |
 That SEPTA PCC car made it to Muncie Indiana. |
 Lehigh Valley Transit freight car C5 passes Old King Cole Coal Company. |
 A two-car North Shore train rumbles over the modules. |
 And rumbles. |
 A local expert explains to Bob how he should be operating the trolleys. |
 Bob is a slow learner - it took a lot of explaining. |
 Trolley Freight is a favorite way to move the goods at East Penn. |
 The street sweeper is happy to still be alive while the newsboy has a special "car hits pole" edition. |
 Bob and Tom will get things started on Sunday morning as soon as they get awake. |
 This craftsman kit is one of many high points of Dave's modules. |
 Bob is wondering how long they will keep running before everything just quits. |
 This shot gives a general view of the East Penn modules. There is still another ten feet of module to the left. |
 Another shot from the same spot. |
 One of three shots through the yard and car barn area. |
 Two of three. |
 Three of three. |
 The woodland Scenics gas station fits this corner nicely. |
 Philadelphia Transit Co. had a funeral car "Dorothy" modeled here by the late Ed Torpey. |
 Bob and Tom show our better sides as Dave Gallagher holds court. The ever-observant Bob Kelly keeps an eye on things. |
 Bob, Tom, and Dave try to keep things running while the paying customers remember the good old days. |
 Rich Crooks is hard at work making everything work flawlessly. |
 The great trolley wreck. The module block control depends on a car being on the tracks, this is what happened when they don't stay where they belong. |
 This was not staged, it happened in slow motion but getting my hand to the off button was like a still photo. |
 The underside of one of Tom O'Donnell's East Penn module showing the and generation electronics we use for block control. |
 All the power is on one place. |
 A simple control panel made to look complex with color-coded lines. |
 Many East Penn power supplies are made to resemble trolley controllers. |
 A control panel that deserves the color-coded lines. |
 Another controller power supply. |