Scale Drawings of the Peach Bottom Railway, Volume 4
By Stanley T. White and Bob Bruce
Volume 4 was released in 2016 and includes several of my most ambitious and complicated drawings to date. Oxford Grain and Hay required the use of a foldout page, in order to show the detail in HO scale. With this book, the Robert Fulton Birthplace was thoroughly examined and drawn as it was prior to 1905 and post 1905. Bob Bruce is an expert on old railroad car building practices. His drawings and essays filled the second part of this book with accurate drawings of the long-gone equipment of the “Little, Old & Slow.” He also detailed the history of the cars and coaches, as best as could be determined, relying on his thorough knowledge of the subject.
Contents of Scale Drawings of the Peach Bottom Railway Volume 4
Mount Sinai U. A. M. E. Church, “Rigby Meeting House”
Conowingo Co-operative Dairy Co. (at Fulton House)
The Buttermaker’s House (at Fulton House)
Fulton House Station Revisited (post 1911)
Fulton House 1870-1905
Fulton House post 1905 additions
Swift Tenant House (at Fulton House)
The First Oxford Station, remodeled 1891-1902
Union News Stand (at Oxford Station) (P. B. & W. — P. R. R.)
Oxford Grain and Hay Brick Grain Elevator (P. B. & W. — P. R. R.)
P. B. Ry. (O.C.C.W.) 1874 Sheathed Boxcar
P. B. Ry. (O.C.C.W.) 1874 Outside Frame Boxcar
P. B. Ry. (Oxford Cooperative Car Works) 1873 Flat Cars
P. B. Ry. (Billmeyer & Small) Box and Flat Cars
P. B. Ry. (Oxford Cooperative Car Works) Coach and Combine
L., O. & S. Early Combine
Early Combines Compared
P. B. Ry. / L., O. & S. Coach
L. O. & S. “Big” Coach
L. O. & S. Low Boxcar with full End Doors
L. O. & S. Later Boxcar
L. O. & S. Stock Car
L. O. & S. Last Boxcar on Premises
From Volume 4: About the Authors
Stanley T. White was born in New Haven Connecticut in June of 1951, but was raised, first in Baltimore and then, Morris County, New Jersey. He is the middle child of Joseph M. White M.D. and Mary Louise White M.D.
Outside of managing his own tile installation company, Stan was an avid model railroader, hence his interest in drawing historic railroad buildings. (His Maryland and Pennsylvania model railroad was featured in Model Railroader Magazine, Dec. 2005 and Model Railroad Planning, 1997.) Stan is a long standing member of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Historical Society and has contributed several articles to their Timetable quarterly publication.
“Scale Drawings of the Peach Bottom Railway, later known as the Lancaster Oxford and Southern Railroad Volume 1,” was his first self-published work. With this additional book, that series now totals four, created in the span of time between May of 2005 and July 2016.
Stan and his wife Linda live in Drumore, PA, in a ranch house on the hills above the long-time flooded village of Peach Bottom.
Robert A. Bruce has always liked mechanical things. His early childhood was in Ypsilanti, Michigan, when the New York Central was still running steam. He remembers occasionally detouring on his way home from elementary school so as to pass a ready track where the Central kept a consolidation switch engine. Here he would chat with the engineer, and hoped to be invited (rarely) to climb into the cab. Those were more relaxed times.
This love of railroads stayed with him when his family moved to Edinboro, Pennsylvania. Traces of early railroads and interurbans which served northwestern Pennsylvania and western New York were still evident. Exploring the old roadbeds and finding relics was still relatively easy at the time.
Later, his work took him to Corning, New York as an Industrial Designer for Corning Glass. Nearby were remnants of the earliest railroads in the country, as well as canals. The area was ripe for transportation history fans.
Now retired, he lives in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. He has been a model builder, railfan and historian for more than 65 years. He also enjoys collecting, restoring and driving brass era (pre 1916) automobiles.
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