Southern Pacific Klamath Falls Sub
Scale : HO
Era : 1984
Owner: Dennis Drury
Layout Location: Reno, NV
The
Southern Pacific Klamath Falls Sub is my attempt to recreate the SP
between Klamath Falls and Chemult as it existed in 1984.
Using track
charts, drawings and photos from the area, as well as my own memories
from when I worked for the SP, I will try and make this railroad as
prototypical as possible.
The layout is being constructed in a 20x20
foot garage attached to my home in Reno, NV. Space preparation is
currently underway and actual layout construction should begin in July,
2012
Blog: http://spkfsub.blogspot.com/
Showing posts with label SHASTA Division. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SHASTA Division. Show all posts
Klamath River Line
Southern Pacific’s Klamath River Branch Line at a glance
Scale” HO (1:187.1)
Size; 9’ X 11’ (excluding staging)
Prototype: Southern Pacific
Locale: Northern California’s Klamath River basin
Period: October 1983
Style: Pit
Mainline Run: 80’ total (40’ visible)
Minimum radius: 24” visible main, 22” all others, 18” staging
Minimum Turnout: All but one no 6 mainline no 4 all others & Snap switches for staging
Benchwork: Plywood frame built domino style
Height: 48” Basement, 52” main area
Roadbed: Midwest Cork
Track: Atlas code 83 flex, sectional and turnouts.
Scenery Base: Extruded foam base with cardboard strips as needed
Backdrop: Painted vinyl flooring
Control: Digitrax Zephyr DCC
Hand throttles include one DT400R Wireless throttle and two UT4 tethered throttles….. as well as the Zephyr itself.
Yreka and Eureka are represented by staging with Yreka providing the interchange with SP mainline.
Willow Creek and Happy Camp are the two towns modeled. Willow Creek is the larger of the two and incorporates a small classification yard. There is a large wood products facility in Willow Creek as the main rail customer.
Happy Camp offers more industrial switching opportunities of the two. There is a lumber reloader in Happy Camp and a neighboring woodchip loader. Anderson Window & Door is the largest rail customer represented.
The Klamath River Line is primarily designed for one operator but provides for possible operating sessions for up to several people.
Layout Location:
The layout is a free standing pit style located in the corner of the garage. It was to have 2 parts that were to be movable but the ROW committee has gotten a ten year lease to keep it standing at all times. I mention this because had this be the plan from the onset the construction would have been differently. Staging would have been different too.
There are 4 sections to the layout. The 4 sections are labeled North, South, East and West. The North and West sections are semi permanent. The South and East sections are movable and are mounted on wheels but see above.
Blog : http://klamathline.blogspot.com/
Scale” HO (1:187.1)
Size; 9’ X 11’ (excluding staging)
Prototype: Southern Pacific
Locale: Northern California’s Klamath River basin
Period: October 1983
Style: Pit
Mainline Run: 80’ total (40’ visible)
Minimum radius: 24” visible main, 22” all others, 18” staging
Minimum Turnout: All but one no 6 mainline no 4 all others & Snap switches for staging
Benchwork: Plywood frame built domino style
Height: 48” Basement, 52” main area
Roadbed: Midwest Cork
Track: Atlas code 83 flex, sectional and turnouts.
Scenery Base: Extruded foam base with cardboard strips as needed
Backdrop: Painted vinyl flooring
Control: Digitrax Zephyr DCC
Hand throttles include one DT400R Wireless throttle and two UT4 tethered throttles….. as well as the Zephyr itself.
The Klamath River Line Overview
The Southern Pacific’s Klamath River branch line is a proto-lanced line that operates from Yreka CA to Eureka CA as if this area had continued to developed. It also includes the towns of Happy Camp and Willow Creek. The era is October 1983. The plan started from the Red Rock and Northern RY. that appeared in the June 2007 Model Railroader magazine as the 2nd place design contest winner.Yreka and Eureka are represented by staging with Yreka providing the interchange with SP mainline.
Willow Creek and Happy Camp are the two towns modeled. Willow Creek is the larger of the two and incorporates a small classification yard. There is a large wood products facility in Willow Creek as the main rail customer.
Happy Camp offers more industrial switching opportunities of the two. There is a lumber reloader in Happy Camp and a neighboring woodchip loader. Anderson Window & Door is the largest rail customer represented.
The Klamath River Line is primarily designed for one operator but provides for possible operating sessions for up to several people.
Layout Location:
The layout is a free standing pit style located in the corner of the garage. It was to have 2 parts that were to be movable but the ROW committee has gotten a ten year lease to keep it standing at all times. I mention this because had this be the plan from the onset the construction would have been differently. Staging would have been different too.
There are 4 sections to the layout. The 4 sections are labeled North, South, East and West. The North and West sections are semi permanent. The South and East sections are movable and are mounted on wheels but see above.
Blog : http://klamathline.blogspot.com/
Patagonia & Black Rock
Owner : Marcelo Eduardo Szkatulak Colio
Scale: HO
Era: 1966 - Summer
Layout Location: Toledo ( Spain)
My name is Marcelo Eduardo Szkatulak Colio. I´m an Espee Spanish fan.
I have a small H0 layout about Southern Pacific called Patagonia & Black Rock.
This is a SP based layout settled in mid 1966 in the Arizona Division.
The Patagonia town actually exist and have an SP Depot Nº22 ( http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=24108 ) but no Black Rock. It was taked from a picture called "Bad Day in Black Rock" (Did you see that? there was a lot SP train).
• The Layout dimensions are about 1,25 x 3 with a 2 x 0,50 extension. It have a L shape.
• Layout Height: 1100 mm to top of rails.
• Benchwork : 10 mm plywood.
• Roadbed: 6 mm foam.
• Track : Roco cod. 83.
• Scenery : Natural materials, stones and sand.
• Backdrop : Landscapes printing on self-adhesive paper over 5 mm. styrene.
Now I´m modeling the operating mode, because I´m interested in prototipical operation.
You can see my layout in http://patagoniablackrock.blogspot.com/
My rolling stocks is mainly representative of the sixties, but I have several models I like but it doesn´t run in a tipical operation journal.
For example, I´ve GP9 "Torpedo Boat" and RDC-10 for passenger trains, GP-30, GP-35, SD-9 and RSD-3 for freight and some SW1500 and SW-9 for switching cars. I will add some more when operation need it.
Joinly with an Italian and Uruguay friends called Alejandro and Miguel we are running a Yahoo group called SPRRSpanish@yahoogroups.com.
We are triing to talk about SP and his subsidiaries in spanish.
Roseville-Truckee District-"The Hill"
Owner: Jeff Rowe
Scale: O scale
Layout Location: San Ramon CA
Southern Pacific Roseville-Truckee District-"The Hill" Roseville Subdivision
The SP line from Oakland, CA to Ogden, Utah provides for many exciting
modeling possibilities. There are several major yards and terminals, a wide
variety of terrain from flat lands, hills and the towering Sierra mountain range.
The line from Sacramento to Sparks, Nevada (AKA “the hill” or Roseville
Subdivision) is the section I chose to model. It has steep grades, tunnels, snow
sheds, and heavy traffic. To get trains over Donner Pass, SP employed several
different engine types over the years from 4-10-2, the famous 4-8-8-2 cab
forwards, Alco PS’s, and SD-40/45 T-2’s. Motive power from the Rio Grande and
UP were also frequently used. Most consists were freight and produce from CA to
the east coast. But passenger trains such as the San Francisco Limited, the Gold
Coast, the Overland Limited, City of San Francisco, plus locals and mail trains
also provide plenty of modeling opportunities.
Obviously, it would require an enormous facility to model the full scope of the
line from Roseville to Sparks. In the limited space I have available, the
compromise was to concentrate on the Roseville and Truckee section known as
the Hill or Mountain district. The Colfax to Norden section are in the planning
stages. The time frame is the early to mid 1950’s when SP began phasing out
steam and switching to diesel. Some contemporary operation with newer SD-
40/45 and T-2’s is also enjoyed.
The layout occupies a 20’ x 23’ garage in my San Ramon CA home
Scale: O scale
Layout Location: San Ramon CA
Southern Pacific Roseville-Truckee District-"The Hill" Roseville Subdivision
The SP line from Oakland, CA to Ogden, Utah provides for many exciting
modeling possibilities. There are several major yards and terminals, a wide
variety of terrain from flat lands, hills and the towering Sierra mountain range.
The line from Sacramento to Sparks, Nevada (AKA “the hill” or Roseville
Subdivision) is the section I chose to model. It has steep grades, tunnels, snow
sheds, and heavy traffic. To get trains over Donner Pass, SP employed several
different engine types over the years from 4-10-2, the famous 4-8-8-2 cab
forwards, Alco PS’s, and SD-40/45 T-2’s. Motive power from the Rio Grande and
UP were also frequently used. Most consists were freight and produce from CA to
the east coast. But passenger trains such as the San Francisco Limited, the Gold
Coast, the Overland Limited, City of San Francisco, plus locals and mail trains
also provide plenty of modeling opportunities.
Obviously, it would require an enormous facility to model the full scope of the
line from Roseville to Sparks. In the limited space I have available, the
compromise was to concentrate on the Roseville and Truckee section known as
the Hill or Mountain district. The Colfax to Norden section are in the planning
stages. The time frame is the early to mid 1950’s when SP began phasing out
steam and switching to diesel. Some contemporary operation with newer SD-
40/45 and T-2’s is also enjoyed.
The layout occupies a 20’ x 23’ garage in my San Ramon CA home
South Shasta Lines Miniature Railway
Godrey Humann, creator of the South Shasta Lines Miniature Railway, died April 15 2009 at his Gerber home.
Model Railroader June 2009 issue have published his last review article of this O scale historic piece of Americana.
Housed in the 36-by-60-foot basement of the Gerber home Humann built in 1949, the track rings the walls with exact models of long-gone train depots in Gerber, Red Bluff and Anderson, then winds through Redding and its depot on the room's center platforms, traversing mountainous bridges and tunnels, and ends at the Dunsmuir depot.
Humann, a 96-year-old retired farmer and thresher, began work on the model in 1950.
http://www.redding.com/news/2008/Apr/15/all-aboard/
One of the several video on Youtube: http://tinyurl.com/ndnk6d
Model Railroader June 2009 issue have published his last review article of this O scale historic piece of Americana.
Housed in the 36-by-60-foot basement of the Gerber home Humann built in 1949, the track rings the walls with exact models of long-gone train depots in Gerber, Red Bluff and Anderson, then winds through Redding and its depot on the room's center platforms, traversing mountainous bridges and tunnels, and ends at the Dunsmuir depot.
Humann, a 96-year-old retired farmer and thresher, began work on the model in 1950.
http://www.redding.com/news/2008/Apr/15/all-aboard/
One of the several video on Youtube: http://tinyurl.com/ndnk6d
Dunsmuir engine facilities and Shasta Division
HO Scale - circa 1954
Owner: Larry Saslaw
Layout Location: 14700 Orchard Crest Avenue, Bakersfield
This HO scale layout is based on circa 1954 (and last day of Southern Pacific operations on Sept 11, 1996).
Larry has used plans of the roundhouse, machine shops, mallet shed, sanding tower and station from MAINLINE MODELER articles of the early 1980s.
The layout is built within the third stall of his garage and measures 12' x 21' feet.
There concept is based on a climbing out of the Sacramento River from lower Dunsmuir yard, through the engine facilities, up the canyon past Shasta Springs, across Hotlum (Dry Canyon) up to a second level to what could be the summit at Siskyou (Larry has used artistic license to switch lines) up to a helix and down, or reverse loops on top and bottom.
The layout climbs twice around the room, from the helix and Dunsmuir yard and shops located on the center peninsula, around the room twice, back onto the peninsula to the top of the helix. Larry's intent is to portray the scenery and feeling of railroading in the Shasta Route.
He uses Digitrax Radio DCC and has a sample of SP steam, Diesels, Shasta Daylight, Klamath, lumber trains of the 1954 era. He also can switch out the whole power and rolling stock to portray the last days of the SP with the Coast Starlight.
The layout was on the SPH&TS Bakersfield Tour in September 2008.
Owner: Larry Saslaw
Layout Location: 14700 Orchard Crest Avenue, Bakersfield
This HO scale layout is based on circa 1954 (and last day of Southern Pacific operations on Sept 11, 1996).
Larry has used plans of the roundhouse, machine shops, mallet shed, sanding tower and station from MAINLINE MODELER articles of the early 1980s.
The layout is built within the third stall of his garage and measures 12' x 21' feet.
There concept is based on a climbing out of the Sacramento River from lower Dunsmuir yard, through the engine facilities, up the canyon past Shasta Springs, across Hotlum (Dry Canyon) up to a second level to what could be the summit at Siskyou (Larry has used artistic license to switch lines) up to a helix and down, or reverse loops on top and bottom.
The layout climbs twice around the room, from the helix and Dunsmuir yard and shops located on the center peninsula, around the room twice, back onto the peninsula to the top of the helix. Larry's intent is to portray the scenery and feeling of railroading in the Shasta Route.
He uses Digitrax Radio DCC and has a sample of SP steam, Diesels, Shasta Daylight, Klamath, lumber trains of the 1954 era. He also can switch out the whole power and rolling stock to portray the last days of the SP with the Coast Starlight.
The layout was on the SPH&TS Bakersfield Tour in September 2008.
Shasta Route Division
HO Scale – 1952
Owner: Otis Mc Gee Jr.
Layout Location: Oakland.
HO double decked, mushroom style model of SP’s Shasta Division from Redding, CA to Klamath Falls, OR.
Purpose-built 1,200 sq ft loft. by the late and legendary John Armstrong.
Operations faithfully follow the prototype using a modified timetable & train orders and a real CTC machine.
400 foot with hand laid turnouts. Fully signaled from to Black Butte.
Hand painted backdrops. Many key prototype structures in and around Dunsmuir.
Computer support with C/MRI hardware and JMRI software. NCE DCC.
"The concept for this layout depicting the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Shasta Division, Black Butte Subdivision in 1952 germinated in the mind of the Division Superintendent for many months. The idea began, in large part, during the course of visits to the very large, well designed layout of fellow modeler Scott Kew, with whom the Division Superintendent has spent many evenings during weekly “round robins” with the No Name Railroad Society performing numerous tasks on Scott’s layout, as well as those of Jim Providenza, Tom Combs, Bill Kaufman, and longtime friend, Philip Smith."
Owner: Otis Mc Gee Jr.
Layout Location: Oakland.
HO double decked, mushroom style model of SP’s Shasta Division from Redding, CA to Klamath Falls, OR.
Purpose-built 1,200 sq ft loft. by the late and legendary John Armstrong.
Operations faithfully follow the prototype using a modified timetable & train orders and a real CTC machine.
400 foot with hand laid turnouts. Fully signaled from to Black Butte.
Hand painted backdrops. Many key prototype structures in and around Dunsmuir.
Computer support with C/MRI hardware and JMRI software. NCE DCC.
"The concept for this layout depicting the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Shasta Division, Black Butte Subdivision in 1952 germinated in the mind of the Division Superintendent for many months. The idea began, in large part, during the course of visits to the very large, well designed layout of fellow modeler Scott Kew, with whom the Division Superintendent has spent many evenings during weekly “round robins” with the No Name Railroad Society performing numerous tasks on Scott’s layout, as well as those of Jim Providenza, Tom Combs, Bill Kaufman, and longtime friend, Philip Smith."
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