Around the bend from Elmhurst is Moscow, now on the upper level. On the west end of Moscow is the Moscow Gravel Pit, a freelanced industry:
Moscow features a team track and feed distributer (Skelton Feeds, located on
the rear track in the photo below). Note that the buildings in this picture
are stand-ins and will be replaced with scratchbuilt structures. The Skelton
Feeds track will be hidden.
The underpass just east of Moscow Station:
East of Moscow is a location where I've been forced to take some liberties with the prototype to make the model work satisfactorily. In order to achieve the grade length and deck separation I desired, we had to raise the designed track elevations between Nay Aug and the crest of the grade. Unfortunately, this meant that access to the Croxton Staging Yard would need to be via an at-grade crossing near the bottom of the stairs. Since no such crossing existed on the prototype, we had to free-lance. The physical location on the layout is between Moscow and Tobyhanna, and the crossing track is the mainline east of East Stroudsburg before it enters the upper, east end, staging yard. For now this location has the very unimaginative name "Crossing".
"Crossing" from the east. The train has just left Moscow and is headed toward Tobyhanna. The track disappearing to the right ends up in the Croxton staging yard, and the track exiting to the lower left comes from East Stroudsburg. The track crosses the aisle just to the left in an easy 65"-high nod-under:
