Layout plan: Union Connecting Railroad. N.Y. Society of Model Engineers, Inc., Lackawanna Terminal, Hoboken, N.J. Ferry Concourse. Jan. 1949.

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Union Connecting Railroad model train layout plan, 1949

Union Connecting Railroad model train layout plan, 1949

Name/Title

Layout plan: Union Connecting Railroad. N.Y. Society of Model Engineers, Inc., Lackawanna Terminal, Hoboken, N.J. Ferry Concourse. Jan. 1949.

Entry/Object ID

2013.005.0012

Scope and Content

Model train layout plan: Union Connecting Railroad. New York Society of Model Engineers, Inc., Lackawanna Terminal, Hoboken, N.J. Ferry Concourse. January 1949. Single printed leaf, 11" high x 17" wide, printed one side only; folded as received. PDF on file. This group of model railroaders had been using space in the upper level ferry concourse at the terminal since 1948 as a guest of the Lackawanna Railroad. The plan here was for the development of the Union Connecting Railroad (U.C.R.R. - not a real railroad) layout designed by them and under construction in Hoboken. The sheet has a table at the lower that includes a "Feb. 1949 Temp. Layout" along with "Ultimate Railroad Layout" and "Ultimate Trolley and Interurban." For the period and into the mid-1950s, it was the largest model railroad layout in the world. Dimensions on the sheet indicate 90 feet long by 35 feet wide. See related or archives 2012.007.0044 for an exhibition annual and some later history about it. See archives 2015.001.0061 for a 1956 version of this layout plan. ---- train / trains

Acquisition

Accession

2013.005

Source or Donor

Lukacs, Claire

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Museum Collections. Gift of a Friend of the Museum.

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1949 - 1949

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1949 Date(s): 1949

General Notes

Note

Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2013-02-19