By Bruce Petty A real operating mine for the LA&SFV; RR It’s the early 1960s in the San Fernando Valley and the latest “IN THING”, is dercrative volcanic rock around back yard swimming pools and rock gardens. This is what replaced the scrap yard, a more user friendly product brought […]
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by Bruce Petty Because the Los Angeles Model Railroad is a shelf type layout, operating signals would not be in view of the operator, the Searchlight Signal models were set up as non-operating units. A red or green M.V. Products lens was installed in each signal head, these lenses reflect […]
by Bruce Petty Here in Northern California (where I live), a great number of really neat looking old industrial buildings that are still standing. Unfortunately in Southern California most of these neat old structures are now gone, mainly because of the high value of land that is needed for new […]
By Bruce Petty Here’s a little derailment on my layout: Operator Error. . .Leaving the switch misaligned. A piece of scrap iron was dragged under the loaded gondola car when pulled from spot.A piece of scrap was caught on the edge of the street pavement, and upended the car.So always […]
By Bruce Petty For better looking HO Scale Freight Cars One thing model railroaders do well is collect bits of material that someday might useful for future model building projects. Yes, I am as guilty for sure, but this is one of my better finds and think my fellow modelers […]
by Bruce Petty Building an HO Scale Model Building the Sheller Feed Company model in HO scale has been an nostalgic project from my youth.Here the local has finished its days work and is about to begin the trip home. Back in 1963 when I was issued my first California […]