Washington, Pennsylvania is located at the end of the Chartiers Branch about 23.5 miles south of the Pennsylvania Railroad's mainline (railroad "West").

Between Canonsburg and Washington lies Houston, Pennsylvania and several other small communities. The area in between the towns was mostly diary farm land. For more information about this area, see my Washington Research page.

Washington, PA is one of two towns served on my scaled-down version of a portion of the PRR Chartiers Branch. It takes up the left-hand side of my "U"-shaped layout. Due to space constraints, I plan on only modeling four industrial buildings. Tentatively, these are the "O'Brien Steel Construction Company" (completed), "Dunbar & Wallace Lumber Co." (started), "Duncan & Miller Glass Company", and "Star Foundry Co.". O'Brien is a shallow-relief structure up against the backdrop. Both Duncan and Star will be shallow-relief foreground structure where you are viewing the insides of the buildings. Dunbar will be a complete structure. All, except for O'Brien, will be scratchbuilt. I had planned on building a model of the passenger station, but the mock-up revealed that the structure would be so dominant as to look out of place on my small layout.

Overall Status

Track and basic scenery shell are finished. The O'Brien structure is finished. Dunbar & Wallace Lumber Co.'s structure is being built.

Detailed Progress Reports

Latest Overall Photo

- June 10, 2011 -