Welcome to the
HO American Group’s layout
Mauch Chunk, PA
see also
www.homauchchunk.co.uk
After a visit by one of us
to Jim Thorpe in 1996, we selected it as a subject to model and started
modelling in 2002. We have copied the prototype as far as
possible using plans taken from photos. All the material we have is
available on the
homauchchunk website.
This, then, is a prototype model of a real Pennsylvania
location on the CNJ (Central of New Jersey) railroad. It is
modelled in HO scale
(3.5mm to the foot; 16.5mm track width). The layout is a continuous run
of size 21ft x 5ft (it has no
central well).
We’ve
built to the standard NMRA wheel profile and
used Peco code 75 track. We
have also used DCC for operation after the
very positive experiences of other layouts in the Merseyside Model
Railway Society.
Our
HO model of the Mauch Chunk
(pronounced Mauk Chunk) is set
in the late 1940s to early 1950s. This allows us to run the unique steam
of the CNJ and early passenger and freight diesels. We have our own
extensive website of the model and prototype which is well visited -
take a look from the link above.
There
has been very little compression of the central part of the Track Plan
and so the model closely resembles the
prototype. All buildings
have been scratch
built to resemble the prototypes as closely as possible.
See the Mauch Chunk Buildings page
on our own website to access HO-scale plans of
the buildings.
We have already
made a collection of representative
locomotives and other stock that would have been operating in the 1930s
to 1950s on the CNJ in Mauch Chunk, PA. We still run
non-CNJ rolling stock on club evenings !
Progress has been fairly slow -
partly because there are only four of us modelling at the moment and
partly because the buildings took a very long time. Anyone is welcome
to join as there is plenty to do for modellers of all skill levels (and
we are only learning by trying).
We welcome emails from CNJ fans and fellow modellers.
UK modellers are welcome to join us in Birkenhead, Merseyside, UK.
Email us at
homauchchunk@ntlworld.com.
