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 […]
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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 […]
on vacation in the White Mountains
August 13, 1965, the Pacific Electric merged into the Southern Pacific Railroad
54 years ago today
And due to track work on other lines, the Southern Pacific ran a few freights through Playa Desnuda. It was a rare treat to see an old U30C in the consist. They would all be gone by 1985
It’s 1970something….
Nothing but a piece of plywood and cheap Wally World acrylic paint….she is still working on it, this is for the 1980’s layout