Southern Pacific in Dads Garage

N scale - modern
Owner: John Paulson
Layout Location: Finchley Avenue, Riverside, CA
Nice scenery and bridges!
"My layout is loosely based on Colton through Cajon serving Victorville.
There is tons of modelers liscense but I needed a base to work from.
This is a single level N-scale, L-shaped layout that loosely depicts the Colton yard, through the grade of Cajon pass, to Victorville all in California.
There is a yard with many industries around it, a passing siding at the summit, and Victorville with 3 sidings. There is also a three track continouos staging yard between Victorville and Colton so the three tracks are stand ins for points north and south or west. My goal in Victorville is to have a Cemex plant, Beck oil and fuels, and Hesperia lumber. In Colton there will be a citrus packer, Grain elevator(like the one in San Berdo), Bekins storage, a furniture manufacturer, a plastics manufacturer, and a LCL shiping house.
It is powered by an NCE system with four throttles."

Southern Pacific Exeter Branch

HO scale - 1981
Owner: Rick Watson
Layout Location: Tempe, Arizona
Based on the Exeter Branch of the Southern Pacific in 1981.
(moved under the Los Angeles Divsion rather than the San Juaquin Division, as modeling 1981: the Exeter Branch was part of the Bakersfield Sub which was part of the Los Angeles Division)
Primarily a switching layout . As with the prototype, the primary commodity is produce with numerous packing houses throughout the layout.
The majority of the industries modeled are representative of the prototype, with some additional added for operational interest.
The towns modeled include Sanger, Reedley, Dinuba, Exeter and Lindsay.
The layout employs a Car Card/Waybill operating system and train control is via NCE DCC.
The focus of the layout is heavy switching and an operating session accommodates a crew of four operators.

SP Coast Line from Taylor Yard to Ventura

O scale - late 1940s/early 1950s.
Owner: Bob Poole
Layout Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL area.
Layout room is 29' x 49'.
Custom track plan by John Armstrong replicates changes in elevation along the route.
Single track main line with passing sidings.
Era is late 1940s/early 1950s.
Benchwork construction began Aug. 2004 and finished Dec. 2008. As of May 2009, mainline subroadbed and roadbed nearly complete, and 5% of mainline track is installed and wired. Yard trackage laid out but not yet installed. All backdrops/viewblocks installed and painted sky blue; will use enlarged photo background scenes taken along actual ROW.
Currently DC for test phase but will convert to DCC.
Small fictional branch line from Moorpark to fictional town of La Cumbre, inspired by Fillmore and nearby citrus groves.
Motive power includes steam and diesel, most previously operated on much smaller previous layout, now dismantled.
All structures from that layout will be installed on this one, comprising about 50% of planned structures.
No scenery yet, and no structures yet in place.

Orange Belt Lines

N scale – late 40s
Owner: Bob Russell
Layout Location: Lime Ave, Fontana, CA.
As described by the owner:
“This N scale layout was started in early 95 and is home to both the Southern Pacific & Santa Fe railroads.
The time period here is the late 40s so steam is in full control.
AC-12 4294 & MK-6 3269 handle the bulk of the mainline freight duty and can be seen pulling long strings of PFE cars or mixed freight.
Train Masters handle the local switching and pick up the freshly loaded reefers at the Sunkist packing house. “

Los Angeles

HO Scale – Autumn 1952
Owner: Bob Smaus
Layout Location: LA
Train-watching in Los Angeles.
This layout has been featured in the hobby press several times.
The owner also is a very accomplished modeler and model railroad author.
Note: Bob Smaus has moved and this layout no longer exists.

Los Angeles & San Fernando RR Co

HO Scale – early 1960s
Owner: Bruce Petty
Layout Location: Northern California
"My layout is modeled after Southern California, during the early 1960s.
Its built as a round the room shelf type layout, 14 to 18 inches wide allowing for close up photography.
Enjoy the photo tour and be sure to check out more web-article links for model building projects at the top and the bottom of this page."