Wyandotte Siding, Southern Pacific

Owner: Ken Smith
Scale : HO
Location: Shepton Mallet, Somerset (UK)
Wyandotte Siding is a fictional location set in the early 1950s somewhere on the Southern Pacific’s East Valley line between Chico and Marysville, CA. It has been built for exhibition at train shows and its first public appearance, in 2008, was as a 15-foot-long switching layout, 10’ of which was scenic, with a 4-foot train-traverser at one end and a short engine-traverser at the other.
For 2009, the layout was extended to create a complete passing siding with industries on both sides of the line (silos and elevator, packing sheds and a beet loader) and 5-foot traversers at each end.
The scenic section in this version is 15’ 6’’ long.
Layout control is Digitrax DCC with Tortoise motors and Hare decoders operating the switches.
Signaling is yet to be installed, but I have some BLMA H2 searchlight signals ready to put in place when I have worked out which train detection and signal driver system I am going to use.
Track is Peco code 83 for the main and the switches, with Micro Engineering code 75 on the siding and code 55 on the spurs.
                                 

Southern Pacific's New Pollok cut-off

Name: Southern Pacific's New Pollok cut-off
Scale: HO scale
Era: 1954-56
Owner: Brian Moore
Location: Plymouth, United Kingdom

The New Pollok cut-off is an imaginary additional section of SP's Coast Line set in the period 1954-56, and features the type of locomotive power, passenger and freight trains common to that time.
It lives in my loft, and has a rectangular footprint of 18x8 feet.

It consists of a single main line and two separate scenic sections: one is a 12-foot-long semi-desert scene with a tunnel at one end, a main line and passing loop, and some lines off under a road bridge at the other, partly representing a motive power depot which caters for late steam and early diesels.
Power for freight trains is regularly swapped here, and this part of the layout is almost scenically complete.
The other side has a main line, depot (“Boswell CA”), a long passing loop, a reasonably-sized yard, team track and a siding into Fort Crookston Armored Proving Ground, an Army facility that tests armoured vehicles.
This side of the layout remains almost fully negligent of scenery, but has the buildings in place.
There are also eight hidden storage tracks (five double-ended and three stub-ended), the longest capable of taking an ABBA set, 22 40' reefers and a caboose.
Control is by a Lenz 100 DCC system, and all locomotives are sound-equipped.

Track is all Peco Code 83, and all switches are remotely controlled.

This layout is my first attempt at modeling SP operations on the Coast Line.
I'm concentrating on getting the locomotives and stock more prototypical, and relying on a “generic” Coast Line appearance, scenery-wise.
As per SLO, there's rather a lot of locomotive changes and helper attachment/detachments, and a reasonable degree of switching too.

Waybills and more formal ops are in the pipeline.

Tamalpais Valley Railroad

HO Scale

Owner: Duncan McRee

Layout Location: San Diego
The Tam Valley RR is a point-to-point HO model railroad that wanders through the bedrooms of our house and is roughly based on the real Southern Pacific with a lot of modeler's license.
The route starts at Tamalpais Valley, continues through the Central Valley, over the High Sierras, across the Nevada desert to terminate at Ogden with branches to Sausalito and Mill Valley.
The roster consists almost exclusively of surplus Southern Pacific equipment from with some other western roads and some old logging locomotives.
I mix times up as I wish, modeling 3 dimensions is plenty, I have left the 4th one indeterminate on the TVRR.
The layout is built, owned and operated by me.
Extensive ( and hope interesting) info are here:

Oakhurst Railroad

HO Scale - Era: in the 1920’s
Owner: Marty Bradley
Layout Location:Los Alamitos, CA
The Oakhurst Railroad is an HO scale model railroad running through the central Sierra town of Oakhurst California.
Although no real railroad ever ran through Oakhurst, the area is rich in logging and gold mining history and several railroads and logging flumes operated nearby.
The Oakhurst Railroad is a two level point-to-point railroad with a helix and an optional continuous run that occupies an 8.5’ x 11’ room and closet.A round trip on the Oakhurst Railroad is approximately 3 scale miles.
For operations, trains are put together in the Oakhurst yard and then travel to the logging or mining areas on the upper level.
Logs are taken from Camp 3 or Central Camp to the North Fork sawmill.
Cut lumber and mining ore are taken to Oakhurst for interchange with a Southern Pacific branch (a fictional extension of the Friant branch line) that connects (through staging) to the mainline in Fresno. Passenger trains take guests to and from the Yosemite resort in Wawona.

Southwestern Pacific RR

N Scale - 1950's
Owner: Steven Van Meter
Layout Location: Alameda.
This is a large N scale layout representing generic Bay Area Southern Pacific and Western Pacific in the 1950's steam to diesel transition period.
It incorporates a completed old layout as a starting point, and scenery on the new areas is progressing nicely.
Control is NCE DCC and control panels are in SP livery.
There are plenty of nice structures in place.
Two new staging yards are being added.

ATSF & SP

O scale - 1947-1951
Owner: Gary Schrader
Layout Location: San Jose
20' x 40' layout set in the 1947-1951 timeframe.
Double track mainline, 6 track Union Station, 13 track yard, huge 14 stall roundhouse with 18 more outside tracks.
All track is hand laid and completed. About 50% of the scenery is done including a large curved timber trestle & 2 other bridges.
All engines & cars are highly super-detailed to exactly match specific prototypes. Check out the complete, accurate 14 car Daylight train and 11 car Super Chief.
Control is by DCC.

The Owens Valley Subdivision

N Scale - Spring 1990
Owner: Mike Stoner
Layout Location: Sedona, AZ
The Owens Valley Subdivision (OVS) is a north/south connecting line which runs from Mojave, California to Reno, Nevada.
At its south end, the OVS connects with Santa Fe's original Transcontinental line at Mojave, on the eastern side of the Tehachapi mountains. At its north end, the OVS connects with the Southern Pacific's original line that runs over Donner Pass. The Owens Valley Subdivision is named for the valley which it runs in.
The Owens Valley stretches from Bishop, Ca, south to Keeler, Ca, where the Owens River ends in a large lake basin.
The Owens Valley Subdivision is a double deck N scale layout depicting what could have happened if the merger between the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway was approved.
It also is a "proto free lanced" railroad, where I have taken the prototype SP and SF and put them in a setting that never had a standard gauge railroad.
The layout room size is 18.5' x 11.5'. Even with this modest amount of room for N scale, I was still hard pressed to include everything that I wanted in my "dream" layout. But after the compromises, I was still able to keep most of what I wanted. Double decking the railroad helped immensely.

SP's Coast Route

N Scale - 1950 to 1955
Owner: Wolfgang "Wolf" Balandran
Layout Location: Westminster, Magnolia Street, Garden Grove, CA
Finally, after about six years without a layout, I am getting ready to start my new layout. The track plan is being worked on. So I'll have to wait just a bit longer. But, in preparation for the track plan I have been working on the workbench. It is 9' X 14'.
And will be based on the SP's Coast Route. Totally freelanced, but set around San Luis Obispo (just to have destinations).
The time frame will be around 1950 to 1955.
Wolfgang "Wolf" Balandran
SPH&TS Member #C2444
Belmont Shore Model RR Club

Southern Pacific in Southern California

HO scale - 1050
Owner: Bob Brand
Layout Location: Texsa
Southern California in the 50s.
Bob tore out his old layout and started over 2 years ago.

Summit

N scale - Modern
Owner: Lennart Svedberg
Layout Location: Sweden
N scale “Summit” layout, which is a freelanced interpretation of the Southern Pacific Tehachapi tunnels and their surroundings.

Eastern Sierra line

O Scale - circa 1955
Owner. Vern Hill
Layout location: Wofford Heights (Lake Isabella Area)
This O-scale layout measures 13' x 21'. Track is mostly hand laid to Proto 48 standards. The basic track plan is an over-and-under folded dog bone with a hidden storage yard into the adjoining garage. All track work, with the exception of an engine service area and industrial spur, is complete along with about 85 percent of the scenery.
The layout represents generic Southern Pacific, circa 1955, with a mix of steam and diesel. Most modelers are aware that SP had what nearly amounted to an Eastern Sierra line from Klamath Falls, Oregon to Mojave, including the SP narrow gauge from Keeler to Laws and north over Mt. Montgomery Pass.
In Vern's historical "imagineering", he has standard gauged the line and the layout represents a section of that fictional scenario.
Rolling stock includes some brass, Intermountain, Red Caboose and Atlas equipment. The locomotive roster includes models from Glacier Park, Sunset and old Atlas. All have been converted to Proto 48 standards.
The layout controls are standard no-frills DC as are the controls for the signal system (target and semaphore). A sound system remains on the wish list.

SP Steam in California

1:48 Scale - 1950
Owner: Jim Harper
Layout Location: St. George, Utah
Jim is building a Proto48 layout in his new home.
The layout is loosely based upon SP operations in California.
His original layout was in his three-car garage in Reno, Nevada.
Jim has reassembled the original layout and added to it in his larger space.
Pictures of Jim's older layout prior to the move on the link.
”Jim Harper has one of the finest Proto48 layouts in the country.
It fills a three-car garage in his home in Reno. Jim’s track is all hand-spiked with individual tie plates and four spikes per tie. He used cast frogs and points so his track is as well detailed as his models. Recently, Jim has converted to DCC operation with sound.”

Paliz Bay Railway & Navigation Co

HO Scale - 1966
Owner: Peter __?
Layout Location: Santa Cruz. CA
Paliz Bay is a fictional town just outside Santa Cruz, California.
The line is loosely based on a branch line of the Southern Pacific Coast Line going through Santa Cruz, and is set in August 1966.

West Valley District

N Scale - era__?
Owner: Phil Scandura
Layout Location: ___?
Phil Scandura’s N Scale layout, the Southern Pacific Tucson Division “West Valley District” , depicts a fictional branch line connection between the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads, just outside of Phoenix, Arizona. The branch starts in Glendale, as an interchange with the Santa Fe mainline, and continues through Tolleson and into Avondale where it joins the Southern Pacific mainline bound for Yuma.
Layout is controlled by Digitrax DCC and was originally designed using CADRail layout design software.

Shasta Pacific Railroad

Shasta Pacific Railroad
HO Scale
Owner : Ken Leitch
Layout Location: Landsborough. Q. Australia.
An imaginary subsidiary of the Southern Pacific RR that a STB ruling protected from being swallowed up by the yellow peril meger.
It is set in western USA and stretches from Portland to Bakersfield & Mojave via Tehachapi & covers a loose time frame 1940 - 1996.
Ken is a Life Member of NMRA, honorary life member of Gold Coast Model Railway Workshop, & currently a member of Caloundra Model Railway Association & Sunshine Coast Railway Modellers Society.

Los Angeles and San Diego Railroad

HO Scale - 1950
Owner: Jim Lancaster
Layout Location: Galy Street, Tustin, CA
Jim Lancaster’s Layout set in Southern California in the 1950’s.
Unlike the prototype, which is a Santa Fe-only line from Riverside to Orange County, the model railroad features joint trackage with two other railroads - the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific - over most of its length.
Emphasis is on the Southern Pacific through a subsidiary named the Los Angeles and San Diego Railroad.

Oakland Harbor Belt

N scale - 1955
Owner: Byron Henderson
Layout Location: _____?
A proto-freelanced N scale model railroad set in 1955.
The layout is under construction now and will include scenes around the Alameda and Oakland, CA areas, with an emphasis on yard and industry switching.

West Marie Vally RR

O scale - Transition era
Owner: Lisa Marie Tahtaras
Layout Location: ___?
About 16 by 26 feet in size.
It is a fictitious branch of the SP across the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where it connects with the UP.
I have some UP equipment, but mostly all SP.
I love the transition period so there are some 1st generation diesels. Most of the motive power is steam which includes examples of most of SPs large steam locos.
The railroad is designed mainly for train watching and has a single track main line, that goes around the train aria about 1 1/2 times, with a long passing siding.
There is a seven stall round house, that houses my collection of Cab Forwards.
The rest of the locos have to live outside till I have the space to build a larger version of the WMVRR

Bear Creek and South Jackson

HO Scale – circa 1952
Owner: Charlie Comstock
Layout Location: ___?
The BC&SJ is free-lanced as an imaginary subsidiary of the Southern Pacific circa 1952.

SP in Oregon

O gauge - late 1940s to 1950
Owner: Charlie Morrill
Layout location: Benjamin, Texas.
Charlie models and his layout is primarily designed for switching operations.
His layout features working signals that he has built.

This is a 28' x 38' basement layout which attempts to model some parts of SP operations in Oregon.
The time era for the layout is late 1940s to 1950 and all steam.
Either DC with PFM sound or DCC with sound are used for operations depending on the locomotives to be run.
The upper section of afolded 8 loop is under construction. No scenery as yet.

Photos of the layout can be found by following the link.