Owner: Jon Cure
Layout Location: Avenida Colonia, Moorpark , CA
Located in Jon’s four car garage garage.
The 37’ X 25’ layout models modern day traffic in California’s Mojave Desert and Owens Valley as well as an Eastern Sierra branch and some Nevada desert.
Major industries include carbon black, copper smelting, tungsten and talc mining, cement, lumber and paper mills, and military installations as well as assorted industrial/commercial businesses such as lumber, fuel, scrap, etc.
In addition there is an interchange with the Trona Railway.
Typical trains are SP, WP, and ATSF. Trains are run from staging as extra’s and car forwarding is controlled by car cards and waybills. Jobs typically include yard masters, local switching crews, and manifest trains with scheduled work.
The layout scenery is approximately 60% complete.
Train control is NCE DCC with some sound equipped motive power.
The garage is next to the UP/Metrolink (former SP) Coastline trackage so you might enjoy some real train traffic.
As a bonus, Jon also has a T&NO Beaumont Industrial RR, an around the walls HO scale DC switching layout inside his house.
and a video of Bruce Morden:
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