While I am working on a new module, here is one from about a month a ago from my CP layout: great pictures everyone, my best, Jan
The National N Scale Convention is in Houston at the end of the month, so I was checking some of my old Belmont Shore Club special run cars. At one time, we had requests for proposals for special run cars, so I submitted these two. I really liked them, but IIRC, Micro Trains did not make covered hoppers at that time. My proposal was soundly rejected. Massive trauma. OTOH, I do still run them on my layout.
Well SP1, welcome to Trainboard! I love your version of the DEVORE depot, but must admit it's a bit disconcerting to see "one's own" model built by someone else... And I almost missed your post, too. Kind regards, Otto
Here are some of my day campers from last week showing off their TTrak modules that they built at the Rosenberg Railroad Museum. Some day they will all grow up to be serious model railroaders. Posing on the steps to Tower 17.
hey Tony, I have that same Model Power house. love what you've done with it, I'm hoping to really work on it (I've already had to rebuild the front porch and also added a back "porch")
The mine is busy this morning, one shay is pulling the full hoppers away from the tipple for the dangerous downhill trip to town, on the mine branch, the rule is that the locomotive is always downgrade of the cars to prevent runaways. Meanwhile the train in the front waits to spot the empties.
After being unable to do anything in the hobby for the past 5 months..... Progress FEF1 first of the class And the EF1 still has a lot of work to go but the molds are finished
@ Otto and SP1, A funny thing about the Devore depot. It was demolished relatively early, in the 1940s I believe. In 1987 when SP had its famous runaway that took out the gas pipeline a few miles south, I visited the area to see what was left. I noticed a rummage sale a few blocks away and stopped in. The seller had the cast-concrete cornerstones with the Santa Fe circle/cross mandalas mixed in with what he was selling. He was trying to get enough money to move out of the area - the explosion was the last straw! He offered them to me for $50 each, but they weighed a ton and being on a college budget, I passed. He then offered up the ATSF-UP ticket office sign, which I did purchase. Apparently, his father was on the demolition crew and took some of the demo debris. So, I came away with a unique piece of Cajon Pass history.
