Newsletter | FEbruary 2025

Hello Manhattan Modeler,

Reminder: On Friday 2/28 at 6:30pm we will be having our next in person meeting. Phil Monat will be hosting us at the famous D&S layout. There will be Pizza and Salad available.

Enter through the garage (do not use the front door).

Please either reply to this reminder or email me at [email protected] to confirm your attendance (or if you need the address).

-Andy Estep  

Manhattan Modelers February Meeting 

Manhattan Modelers meeting at Phil Monat’s Layout. Friday Feb 28th at 6:30 PM. Phil has graciously offered his layout to us again for a visit. His address is in the Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale. Please contact [email protected] or Heath Hurwitz for the address.  

It has been far too long since our group has had an in-person meeting. There have been a lot of new people joining our group and I am looking forward to meeting them in person. We really hope to see you there. Phil’s massive HO scale layout is not to be missed. The layout will be featured as part of Island Ops 2025.

The Delaware & Susquehanna is a proto/freelance layout loosely based on the Lehigh Gorge area in Pennsylvania. The railroad is centered between Wilkes-Barre and Allentown, with each city having a large classification yard. The single-track main line is fully CTC controlled with US&S type S signals (searchlight), communications are FRS radio when needed. Traffic is widely based, dense and typical of the modern era of double stacks, TOFC, unit coal, ethanol, and trash trains along with heavy manifest traffic going into the New Jersey, Philadelphia and southeastern US from New England and points northeast. There are many locals and serious switching, as well as block swapping and other work. 

The Manhattan Modelers and NMRA are independent, non-profit organizations who have chosen to affilliate for the mutual benefit of our membership, and each is not responsible for the publications, actions or omissions of the other.