Shamokin Incorporates

November 11, 1895^*

Fosterville (AP) - "Railroad Widow" Ms. Lynnhouse declared today that railroading has taken over her home in Fosterville. "There's not a room that doesn't have trains in it for Christmas," she declared.

Pictured at left is the dining room Christmas tree with a G-scale "local limited" carrying holiday travelers to their destinations.

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At right, the Hogwart Express of Harry Potter fame (in HO scale) travels beneath the pinball machine in the front room. In the background is an old railroad trunk with new-fangled stereo equipment on top.

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At left is pictured the hallway portion of the railroad collection with recently installed glass doors. Behind those doors are much of the PB&J Railroad rolling stock along with an HO Zenith train (middle shelf left, headed at right by a red/yellow diesel and with a red/yellow caboose), and some N-scale Southern Pacific equipment (in front of the Zenith train on the same shelf). On the counter is the PB&J Railroad's 0-4-0 along with a few of the 12-inches-to-the-foot items in the PB&J Railroad collection: caboose lamps (2 yellow at left), a Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) engine torch (next to the caboose lamps), a PRR locomotive plate (replica of No. 1361, leaning on the wall at right), a carbide lamp, and a Baldwin Locomotive builder's plate (replica Mikado plate, flat on the counter, the type operated by the Santa Maria Valley Railroad).



^*For actual year, add 107

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