The primary module you see is Temple on the Hill track of the East Penn Branch. There are other views floating around on this site. In one of the pics you can see tracks behind the hoppers, they are part of another module which is a portion of the track coming out of Reading and approaching Kutztown Road. These modules are not built to spec with say the RCTH&S modules, these are just sections of a layout I had at a place I no longer live. They have been in storage for ten years and have just been brought to my new home. A layout is in the planning stages. It will continue to feature the Hill track, but operations may tend to ignore the Low Grade, which got all the good trains.

The Duck is lost, no water in site save Laurel Run creek which wouldn't float a boat after a downpour. (Although my older brother sank my Texaco Tanker with his homemade cannon in said creek)

Interesting line-up of hoppers in my area... did they mis-spell the name? (missing the "T") I've been told they are assisting in the revamp of the Amtrak line between Detroit to Chicago, to increase speed to 110.

The Germans are into the industrial hauling pretty big. I've seen lots of the herzog cars as well as bright yellow Brandenburg gons, which there were a lot of up in Bethlehem when they scrapped the mill.
Rob, do you remember the siding off the hill track up behind hiesters lanes? We went back there in the 70s and I distinctly recall a spur on the east side, I think it was a coal drop. The turnout was probably gone. There was a big factory there way back. Might you have any track charts of the hill track?

After spending two days on my Kubota removing the 18 inches of snow I was able to accomplish applying the green,yellow and black paint to my next GP30 project.

Barry,

Herzog is a maintenance of way services company. There is almost always a string of Herzog ballast cars parked in the yard at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia.

I would still pronounce "Herzog" as if it were spelled "Hertzog." Maybe because I'm from Berks County.

Peter

Barry, Many Herzog cars are frequent visitors to the Trap Rock Quarry along 724, west of Birdsboro. Both the Pennsy and Reading paralleled 724. The PRR is now a rail trail and the Reading's infamous "Turkey path" sees the ballast trains coming out of the Haines and Kibbelhouse "Dyers/Trap Rock" Quarry. H&K have private cars also, I can't offhand recall the reporting marks, HKMX maybe??

Mr Bill.. I do have a variety of track charts and I have walked the hill track taking pictures of many minor "modelable" details, mostly during the 80's. Yes, there is (was) a coal delivery track of to the "east" side of the tracks. I think I have a photo of it too. That is there along with a "machine shop" on my original layout along with the siding ending just before Kutztown Road. That may be the larger business operation in that section. Prior to Heister Lane was Reading Pipe Foundry just off the East Penn between Heister and Exeter on the west side of Kutztown Road, however that was just ruins by the time I was a kid. I grew up on Mt. Laurel Road and spent a lot of time around Elizabeth Ave, Temple Station and the Co-op (Manure Siding) on 5th St. Hiway, all of which will have new homes on my layout.