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Yearly Archives: 2018
I have been planning on scratch building the Casa Grande speeder shed and putting it on my Pacific Electric layout, in the correct Southern Pacific Colonial Yellow, instead of Pacific Electric gray. I drew up a scale plan on 1/4″ square graph paper using Grandt Line #8008 windows. While they […]
Getting closer
I have been thinking about making a model of the shed in Casa Grande and putting it next to the Playa Desnuda freight station. Today I was in downtown CG, and I decided to measure it and shoot more picks…it is 18×22, the sides, back and roof is metal, and […]
Went back to the shed
When I first started this blog, I wanted to model the Southern Pacific in my new home city, Casa Grande, Arizona in the 1980’s. I wanted to tie in the Southern Pacific of my youth with the new home of my thirties. There was a lot of Espee magic still […]
The last sign…
Last week, I bought a pair or long out of production Miniatures by Eric Pacific Electric shells. The passenger unit is a 1100 class, and the box motor is a 1445 class. Both of these will be powered by Tomix chassis. I can’t wait to see real Pacific Electric traction […]
At last!
So Brad, aka Nscalestation, was kind enough to send me some Atlas line poles with catenary hangers… Now let’s flash back to June of 1952 and we caught the westbound PCC heading into Playa Desnuda