Ron's Lehigh River Valley Part 1 - West Portal to Phillipsburg NJ

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Published 2019-08-25
Ron discusses the many prototype structures he recreated on his O scale layout. He also throws in some history about this area. Even if you're not a railfan or model railroader this is worth a watch just for the many historic pictures he has amassed.
We hope to have another video in the future covering the area of his layout in Pennsylvania.
**Editors note: At 1:45 in the video I erroneously put up a title identifying a road as route 22. The road is actually Tunnel Rd. The photo was taken from old route 22. **


Videos in this series:

Ron's massive O scale Lehigh River Valley layout:    • Ron's O scale Lehigh River Valley  

West Portal to Phillipsburg:    • Ron's Lehigh River Valley Part 1 - We... …

Phillipsburg and the Delaware River Bridges:    • Ron's Lehigh River Valley Part 2 - Ph...  

Easton:    • Ron's Lehigh River Valley Part 3 -  E...  

South Easton:    • Ron's Lehigh River Valley Part 4 - So...  

All Comments (13)
  • @LonnieCryan
    Ron, I ran across this video by accident, but enjoyed the presentation and historical points. If I'm not mistaken, we worked in the same areas of the Cameron Pump Division prior to 2000.
  • @mikedc3
    This is so great and interesting!!!!
  • @PRR5406
    I really love the homage to the Lehigh Valley in models, rebuilt structures and the garden railroad. This is really neat railfanning at a higher level!
  • Thanks Ron, Always enjoyed rolling by your place and looking at P'Burg tower. Thanks for the great photos and history!
  • That's an amazing picture of the 1955 flood 13:53. My dad would mention that one to us kids. Thanks for posting you make nice models.
  • @KMcNally117
    Lot of enthusiasm. Thank you for sharing this history
  • @Porschedude8
    Excellent!! Your 1/4 scale models are amazing...
  • @RB01.10
    Damn, I never saw these photos before! Especially the one right after it was abandoned at 10:30 I always thought the Lehigh Valley Railroad was abandoned in 1989, boy was I right! Still searching for photos of the railroad track still on Stockton Street.
  • @file1man
    good job, please concince ron to do some how to videos. there are very few detailed how to videos on you tube. i live in edison, nj, probably to far to help ron do videos, although id love to help the effort. built an 18 by 20 foot o gauge train board around my celler. am struggling now with a duck under and finishing the wiring, then will start taking all my accessories from storage. videos will be published as file1man. wish I had ron to teach me modeling stuff