he got tired of climbing trees to get his airplanes.
Tim's uncle gave him a roundhouse HO switcher as his first model railroad kit. His first layout was a 4 X 4 square around the Christmas tree. His next layout was a 4 X 8 with two mainline tracks, streetcar line, and ice skaters.
His current layout is the Vermont Avenue Railway. It is made on three 3 foot doors for a total of 9 foot by 80 inches wide. It has its own bikini car wash. It is a dual guage HO and HO N3 which is a mainline and a yard with a separate street car line and a six stall trolley barn.
Tim Moffat is our expert wood car builder. He has experience with Quality Craft, Ambroid, and Silverstreak kits. His design techniques include prototypical modeling and superdetailing.
The Bowser engines Tim built are Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotives. These are superdetailed engines that are a more advanced locomotive. Tim’s engines ran flawlessly.
Tim built an Arbour Models Allegheny 2-6-6-6 steam engine that actually ran. Anyone that remembers Arbour knows that they are very difficult to build and run. Way to go Tim!
Tim’s scratch building expertise is in trolleys. Trolley cars that he built include Pittsburgh Railways low floor car and Pittsburgh Railways maintenance car M210.
Tim’s own personal layout includes an HO dual gauge main line with a separate trolley line. The trolley line includes two orange scratch built trolleys. A Bowser PCC street car modified to resemble a Pittsburgh Railways 1400 type streetcar runs on the trolley loop.
A Labelle Models interurban painted maroon was modified to resemble a Pittsburgh Butler short-line interurban. An F & C resin street car body was mounted on a Bowser mechanism and painted to resemble a Johnstown street car.
Tim’s layout experience includes complete wiring of our local club’s layout as well as his own. Tim helps operate the Dover Subdivision layout and builds cars for it. Tim started with wood kits and expanded to resin car kits.
