By Bruce Petty THE COAST LINE GLENDALE DEPOT This was the first stop from LAUPT for the Coast Daylight and Lark heading towards San Francisco along the Coast Line. The San Joaquin Daylight and the Owl made their stops, then left on the Valley Route at Burbank Junction towards Bakersfield. BURBANK […]
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By Bruce Petty The old water tank and pump house at the east end of the Sun Valley Siding are a left over from steam locomotive days. Joe with his dog are out inspecting the switch points before the local arrives from Burbank Junction. Modeling Note: A new line of […]
by Bruce Petty This is an easy project to enhance your layout operation. I’ve installed what is called a Nanny Cam in inside a box car and use it while switching cars on the layout. This really gives an engineers a down the track type of view. I bought my […]
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 […]
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’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 […]