Moscow

Around the bend from Elmhurst is Moscow, now on the upper level. Moscow features a team track and feed distributer (Skelton Feeds, located on the rear track in the photo below). Barely visible to the left is the end of the siding for a free-lanced gravel distribution yard which leaves the mainline just to the left of the photo.


East of Moscow is a location where I've been forced to take some liberties with the prototype to make the model work satisfactorily. In order to achieve the grade length and deck separation I desired, we had to raise the designed track elevations between Nay Aug and the crest of the grade. Unfortunately, this meant that access to the east end staging yard would need to be via an at-grade crossing near the bottom of the stairs. Since no such crossing existed on the prototype, we had to free-lance. The physical location on the layout is between Moscow and Tobyhanna, and the crossing track is the mainline east of East Stroudsburg before it enters the upper, east end, staging yard. Based on its location east of East Stroudsburg I'm tentatively calling this location Slateford Junction. That may change to a purely fictitious name, though, because it really bears little resemblance to the real Slateford Junction.

"Slateford Jct" from the west. East Stroudsburg is to the right in the foreground, Tobyhanna Army Depot is to the right along the far wall:


And from the east. In this view the entrance to the upper staging yard is visible. Moscow is to the left. Once this scene is scenicked, the staging yard entrance track will disappear behind a row of trees: