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1st City: "CARDBOARD" The Industrial side of table with Factory sidings & street underpasses.  Started in 1986
2nd City: "PLASTIC" The Industrial side of table with Factory sidings & street overpasses.  Rehab started in 2000
1st City: "CARDBOARD"   in the background is the previous
station which had a large shed and clock tower
2nd City: "PLASTIC"  a couple brigdes still have to be put in. In the background is 30th street station
The row of office towers and residential apartments creates a backdrop separating the industrial side from the
Station area side
Market Street cuts through the heart of the city and the comercial district. Trolley lines run, cross and turn onto Market Street.
The new market street overpass
"TRAFFIC TRAFFIC TAKE TRANSIT
The new Market Street is Wider and Flat which is open to expansion of the trolley system.
Old Market street crossed the corridor through an underpass creating a hill only a cable car could negotiate
The trolley went down this hill like a rollercoster
The 30th Street Station Area is in Progress
The lower level platforms have to be redone
and the High Line has to be put in. Also trolley
track section and wire has to be installed. If you look closely  you can see that  the catenary span is from marklin.  Some time ago I had laid all the inner tracks with concrete flex track which really didn't look all that great if all other tracks/switches weren't  concrete.  Some of the concrete tracks are still under 30th street
Ole streamlined GG-1 Heads up the Broadway Limited
Acela Train Speeding Through the Interlocking In the Old City. The acela like All the trains that operate off of catenary have to be rewired out of the box for "hotwire-> rail return"
Catenary was made in sections with Jiggs.  Each catenary section was a 12" long on straight tracks. On curved sections it was made custom to each track conditions
Support spans were made from Jiggs for  3,4 & 6 tracks. Insulators are a mixture of wire seed beeds.

Kitbashed  GE Rebuilt METROLINER 4 car train Set with club car Set has two powered coaches with a total of 4 power trucks
A couple of E60s and P40 are on the Engine house tracks
while a 70s style metroliner peeks into the picture
A sharp curve here with the River Lift Bridge in the background
The trackage to 30th street south end are shown here.  Overpass needs to be built.
A dark shot In between buildings in the carboard city
show the trolley line weaving through the city. In the background is the river lift bridge.
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The background picture is a arial shot of Broadstreet Station & Suburban Station in Philadelphia  in the background is 30th street station .