I'll echo my comments from the other thread you posted this to.
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania is my ancestral home on both sides of my family. There have been Vollmers and our forebears in Lancaster since before there was a United States. I feel like I know Lancaster as well as anyone, particularly its railroading scene.
This. Is. Dead. On.
The catenary poles make the scene. These days the cat poles are mostly a ruddy brown rust, but in the days when GG1s wore five pin stripes they were that very gray, bespeckled as the model with those hand grabs for some maintainer braver than I to use to access the transmission and signal wires. The color of the ballast is perfect. I've always imagined it got that way from the rust of rails so much larger and heavier than those in use just about anywhere else. The trees, the road, etc.... All perfect.
While most of the Pennsy electrified lines tried to avoid at-grade crossings (the Irishtown Road crossing between Gordonville and Ronks being a notable exception until recently eliminated), the C&PD/A&S Secondaries near Columbia had crossings just like this. Because of the congestion in that area (it was a major interchange between several Pennsy lines), train speeds were slower and flagmen could be seen doing their thing into the 1960s!
Bravo. Outstanding work.
