by Bruce Petty Union Pacific owned trackage rights all the way from Mission Tower to the top end of Taylor yard that served a 1.25 mile branch line that terminated at Forest Lawn Cemetery. The branch was a joint operation between UP and the SP, each railroad operating it every […]
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By Bruce Petty Modern sand and gravel machinery are just big ugly looking pieces of equipment, and this is what I wanted for the look at my Sun Valley sand and gravel pit. The operating bunker is used to load the Tyco operating hopper cars to dump HO gravel at […]
By Bruce Petty Here are four gravel hopper cars that are used on the LA&SFV; layout to serve the local concrete companies.These cars really do dump finely graded river gravel into the unloading pit. Three different lettering schemes shown for SP Hopper Cars. Some of you may laugh at the […]
Here are a couple of shots provided by John Signor shortly before we began dismantling the layout. Bruce was pretty convincing when he said that the layout would disassemble easily…yeah, until we got to the yard modules. Broke our hearts to cut up all that wiring but in switching this […]