Ironically the person operating the car at the time was a retired motorman for PTC and SEPTA. He has since passed on, but the video remains. Thanks for watching!

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Thanks! Glad you eNjoyed! Unfortunately one of the creators has since passed on, one is our club president, and one somewhat recently moved to South Dakota.

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Yes, this display was created over the course of years of hard work. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching! As far as we know, Chet still has this layout, but we have not seen it since Richard's passing.

Thanks. Glad you eNjoyed! This layout is very well done. Glad it was able to be shown to the world.

@@NJSntrak You're quite welcome :).

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@@NJSntrak just want to add one more thing...the overhead wiring on this excellent layout is immaculate. 👍😎 I gotta learn to do this, someday. 🚎

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The layout is powered by the trolley wire. I am not sure on how the cobblestones were done. One individual who built this passed away, another is in South Dakota now, and the third is hard to get a hold of. We'll see if we can get an answer.

Youz guys is something I would always say only to be corrected by my dad with “ Hughes is a dead chief justice of the Supreme Court . There’s only one city that people say that phrase and it Philadelphia. Actually it can be narrowed down to a few neighborhoods along the river and at an infamous intersection that has the letter’s K&A in its spelling. I’m talking about that neighborhood when everyone I knew as a kid still had a grand parent who spoke with an Irish Brogue; not the disgusting hell hole it’s become today . It breaks my heart seeing my church that woke me up every morning at 6am playing the morning bells for the first mass of the day , sitting a burned out shell of its self .

I am not sure, honestly. I would ask, however the three folks who made this layout are in very different places now, one passed since the making of this video, one has moved to South Dakota, and the other is primarily in to trolley modules and we do not see him as much.

I am not sure and am not easily able to get in touch with the builders of this layout, sorry.

Thanks! The trolleys are powered by the overhead. The blooper at 8:57 shows one of the cars losing overhead connection.

It is powered by the overhead wire, so it has less dirt buildup than traditional rail powered track.

Not an illusion - it is actually powered from the overhead wire. The blooper at the end proves this. It is wired so the overhead wire is electrically one rail and the surface rails are the other rail.

@@NJSntrak yeah but... how did you make sure that the trolley takes the right direction when taking a turnout ?

@@marcvandyck8052 I am not sure exactly, but I think the trolley pole is pulled along by the trolley and it stays in line with where the car goes. The trolleys have switches on the physical track to control which way they go.

@@NJSntrak I assume there are frogs in the wire which allow the pole to go to the correct wire when the car turns or goes straight through it.

This is not a layout we currently have access to, and we cannot ask the owner as he recently passed away, so we are unsure of the exact measurements, but it is roughly 2' x 6' if memory serves.