Yearly Archives: 2019


The name sounds like a bad Sci-Fi B Movie from 1953, but that is far from the truth. Substation 12 was located on the north side of the tracks, across from the Bellflower station. this substation was boarded up by the end of passenger trains in May, 1958, and survived […]

Substation 12…..







The wife is on a 5 day trip to California, and with Playa Desnuda being set in the 1950’s, it feels odd to run my Southern Pacific locos on it. I looked at my “scrap” lumber and track, and decided to build a small four foot long layout especially for […]

When the wife’s away…