Pete and Jane Clark’s East Broad Top Railroad
by
Brian W. Sheron

Despite the snow a few days before, Sunday, January 29th, turned out to be a reasonably nice day with sunshine and above freezing temperatures. And that was enough for a hardly cadre of Potomac Division members and friends to come out and visit Pete and Jane Clark’s East Broad Top (EBT) Railroad.

Occupying about a 15’ x 20’ room in their basement, the EBT is an HO scale narrow gauge railroad empire set in 1925 Pennsylvania. Focused mostly on coal operations, the EBT primarily depicts coal being picked up at the mines and transported to the mills.

The layout is essentially completely scenicked, with a few areas still requiring some detail to be added. Pete said that while he handles some of the chores like wiring, Jane is the “artist” who builds the structures and other scenery, including most of the trees.

The Clark’s said they started the layout in1992, an had most of it completed within about 4-5 years. Since then, they said that they’ve made some additions to it, and several areas were torn out and redone.

The layout is powered by Digitrax with a combination of tethered and wireless controllers. The Clark’s belong to an operations group, and it is evident from the many car-card holders placed around the layout.

It is truly a beauiful, well made and well scenicked model railroad empire, and the visitors that came out and saw it on that Sunday were certainly not disappointed
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