Recent content by 2002p51

There, now it's finished! :)

The other day I was cruising around on that internet thing when I came across this photo from railpictures.net It's Southern Pacific's yard in West Colton, CA. I saw that little structure there and knew I had to build it for my yard. I have no idea what it's for. It's too small to be the yard...

I'm starting to get a better picture of what I might do with all the real estate that I have now since I decided to add scenery to the large return loop/staging tracks in the back. Here's a mock up of one possibility. Sort of a suburban residential/business street. This is a very rough draft if...

I saved myself $30.00 today. I wanted to put a passenger platform on the opposite side of the tracks from the station. I was looking at the one Walther's has and I was looking at the price. Took a good look at the photo and thought, "Well, that looks pretty simple." So after some Evergreen...

No work today, just wanted to run some trains. Here a cab forward rolls a manifest freight past the beet loader in San Ardo, CA.

I hope you're right. :)

I put up some backdrops today. Still not sure what I'm going to do for scenery in this area. Here is the Coast Mail stopping at . . . ? Well, I don't know where this is yet! :)

Yep, I knew the cable should be vertical. I glued the beam to the fulcrum a little too far back and it's too late to fix it. Thanks for the kind words about the truck. I've spent a lot of time looking at the San Ardo oil field on Google satellite view and there seems to be piping running all...

Haven't made much progress the last few days. Just lots of other stuff needing to get done. I did fix up this truck. It's a Mini Metals '55 Chevy stake bed truck. I cut the stake bed off and scratch built the dump bed out of Evergreen styrene. And I went ahead and popped for Walthers $30.00...

Just a little more scenery progress.

Update on San Ardo. If you look up the page a little where I posted the photo of the tentative plan for San Ardo you'll see I was thinking about representing the town with a couple houses, etc. Not going to happen. Just wasn't enough room there to make it look right. Then I realized it would've...

This is a California Tank House. They were a common site in citrus orchards in California from the 1920's into the '40's. They were mostly gone by the late '50's early '60's that my layout is set in but ever since I saw the plans for one in an article in the September 2018 issue of Model...

Yea, I knew the oil field was south of the town. I've been cruising Google maps and street view a lot. But I figured since I'm moving San Ardo about 100 miles from where it should be, it's no problem to move the oil field a couple miles to just across the tracks ! :)

Here's a preliminary mock up of the town of San Ardo, California. The two story building will be a general store/gas station. I need to work a street in there somehow. May not have room for the appropriate yards for those houses. Nothing set yet. The spur is long enough to get 6 cars under...

Thanks for that, very useful information.