Right before Christmas, the LHS got the SP Bloody Nose Red Wing decals in, went down, picked them up, and I got the nose light from Trevor D in Quebec, got sick, worked too many hours….Today, the wife went to the gym, the two young ones fell asleep, out came […]

Red Wings!!!

Well, as a kid, I did some stupid things to some good equipment. I even went so far as to “weather” a Kato U30C and an Atlas U25B with Testers paint. I have discovered that the ideas of a teenager are not always the best, and some can be fixed. […]

my first atempt at detailing a loco in a decade ...

So I have been kicking around the best way to model the SP out here in 1984-86. Back when the Southern Pacific was recovering from the stupid SPSF merger failure (if only the ICC new what was going to happen in the mid 1990’s) I have looked at how the […]

new N Scale track plan….

Well, the old SP is still present here in Casa Grande…the great Borg of Unkle Pete still has yet to kill all SP. We lost our station (built in 1939, art deco style to replace one that burnt down) but a shed still is here, and considering what is standing […]

More lineside details….

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Well, it appears that Cemex has now shut down it’s cement plant in Casa Grande, there have been no trucks there for quite a while, and with it’s operations off of the 587 on the Gila River Reservation near Sacaton, I doubt it will open up soon.  I went down […]

Cemex….

We have all seen mile markers, yard limit signs, even markers to signal horn blowing, but these are new to me.  Yesterday, I watched a pair of GP40’s deliver 2 covered hoppers to Arizona Grain. While running down the siding, the Geeps were stopping, waiting for the crossing gates to […]

Stop signs for trains….