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Since the Southern Pacific took over the Pacific Coast Railway, they started to improve the facilities of Santa Ynez. Here we see the newest addition to the yard, an 80 foot turntable taking PCRY 136 for a spin. Soon, the fuel storage will be upgraded.
The Santa Ynez engine facilities are getting improvements
The new Pacific Coast Railway layout has been a use up my stash and old projects planning exercise. I have been digging out old US made Atlas flex track and switches. I have a Dimi Trains water tower (the only project that I nicely weathered as a kid), the Atlas […]
My old Peco turntable
Only one more switch and the mainline is complete. I have three sidings to lay, and the lead to the turntable. I also need to dig out a hole for the turntable pit. I also was digging through my stash and came across an old Republic Locomotive Works Nn3 tank […]
Continuing around the bend…
Of Santa Ynez. Here are some pictures of the soon to be lettered Pacific Coast 120
Laying track into the yard
I finally got back to working on the roundy round. So far, I have laid about 8 feet of track including a switch and truss bridge. I have the more difficult trackwork ahead, but I decided to share a little. I also finished up my oil bunker conversion of my […]