Vol. 62: Seneca Valley Lines
The Rochester Model Railroad Club recreates the Lehigh Valley railroad of the 60s, but the club’s HO layout is called the Seneca Valley Lines. This 70 year-old-club has been in business in the basement of a 150-year-old church for more than 20 years. The layout is divided into five sections with a supervisor in charge of each, which maintains quality control and a vision for meetings.
Allen joins Tom Mccolloch, president of the Rochester Model Railroad Club, to talk about its fantastic model railroad. The club models the Lehigh Valley railroad from Jersey City, New Jersey, to Buffalo, New York. The HO line is 40 by 60 feet, and the minimum radius is 36 inches on open grid benchwork. The railroad is a freestanding island design, and all trains start and end in the massive staging yard.
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2:00Overview of Seneca Valley Lines
The Rochester Model Railroad Club recreates the Lehigh Valley railroad in the 1960s, but the club’s HO layout is called the Seneca Valley Lines. The 70 year old club has moved seven times over the years, its current location the basement of the church has been home for 20 years. That’s a long time for…
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10:41Touring Seneca Valley Lines
Coming from staging, the tour of the Rochester Model Railroad Club’s Lehigh Valley model railroad, or the Seneca Valley Lines begins with FFW-1 entering the spectacular Arthur Kill Bridge at Jersey City, New Jersey. Jersey City has an industrial town on the eastern end of the model portion of the Lehigh Valley that has a…
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10:05Operations on Seneca Valley Lines
Operations of the Rochester Model Railroad Club’s Lehigh Valley model railroad or Seneca Valley Lines begin with train SGA eastbound rounding the curve at the South Buffalo engine facility. The station platforms at Buffalo come into view. This GP-9 number 301 is one of only two that the Lehigh Valley owns. At Caledonia number 301…
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4:05Owner Inspiration & Techniques on Seneca Valley Lines
The Rochester Model Railroad Club has been around in various guises since 1939, moving seven times in the history of the club. The oldest member has probably been in the club for 50 years. The current layout is called the Seneca Valley Lines, and it models the Lehigh Valley between Jersey City, New Jersey and…
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7:33Reliable Track Work on Seneca Valley Lines
One of the things Mark Rossiter enjoys most about working on the Lehigh Valley model railroad is the track laying and the preparation for the track line. The Rochester Model Railroad Club uses three quarter inch plywood for their sub road bed, and covers that with three eighths inch upson board. The upson board is…
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7:12Control Panel Design on Seneca Valley Lines
Bill Crocca has been with the Rochester Model Railroad Club for more than 10 years, and is one of two people who work on the electrical parts of the layout. To emulate the Lehigh Valley, they put a control panel every place that the Lehigh Valley would have had a control tower or interlocking tower.…
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11:59Making Evergreen Model Railroad Trees on Seneca Valley Lines
Peter Darling is the Chief Engineer of the Rochester Model Railroad Club, and in this video he demonstrates how to take three commercially available materials and turn them into good looking model railroad trees. A material he uses to aid in the construction and storage of the model railroad trees is a Dow product called…
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5:59Buildings and DCC on the Seneca Valley Lines
Bob Hogarth has been a member of the Rochester Model Railroad Club since 1990. His interest is in building buildings around the Seneca Valley Lines, when it was in existence. The club gets a lot of information from books, like a book titled the Lehigh Valley Railroad in Western New York. They have been able…
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