I once said that if I were to get a Hollywood Car, the wire at Playa Desnuda would go back up….thank you Art for the line poles…
The poles are 1/16th inch brass rod, and I am trying to figure out where to place the poles. I am thinking about using standard single line poles on the east half near the shell depot and stringing yard style catenary on the west half be D’Amato Lumber and the freight station. […]
Thoughts about poles…
Holy brass poles Batman! I just got about 200 brass N Scale line poles! Looks like I am going to be hanging wire in Playa Desnuda
Time for a little pole dance…
My model of the Santa Monica freight station has been missing a major part of it for a few years, and I really think that I need to make this… Such a simple thing is a headache, I have been searching for about a year for the correct font, does […]
Here’s Your Sign
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…..
I realized that I was about 35 miles away from the Apache Railway, an all ALCO short line. I have wanted to shoot it. Drove out to the middle of nowhere and I came across the sign, turned on to their road and got to a locked gate half a […]