Tehachapi Loop 
Scale : HO 
Era : 1950 
Owner: Rick Graves 
Layout Location:______
Rick models the Tehachapi Loop in the spring of 1950. His layout completely occupies a 14' x 12' spare bedroom. The layout is DCC controlled (Digitrax) and the locomotives are sound equipped. Rick runs run both steam and diesel appropriate to the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific motive power in use over the line at that time. One interesting and extremely well done feature of this layout is the use of shallow relief hills to duplicate the Tehachapi loop area. The hills are painted and sceniced using a shading technique which gives them depth well beyond their quarter-inch thickness. Up to five trains are staged behind the hills and in other areas to allow a parade of Southern Pacific and Santa Fe consists typical for the time modeled. Rick’s layout was featured in Great Model Railroads 2009 published by Kalmbach Publishing Co., publisher of MODEL RAILROADER.

Shasta Inland Empire Coastline

Layout Name: NL&SC (Sections of the Coastline)

Scale : N scale
Era: Final year of Steam on the SP 1956

Name: Joe Warren

From: Beaumont, CA

The Layout contains section of the SP near Santa Barbara known as Summerland and Fernald point. It will eventually host the Engine facility at San Luis Obispo. It also contains a section of the Shasta division, Shasta Springs to Cantara.
The layout sections are all sewn together in one bookshelf style layout.

Joe's Blog at :  www.nlandsc.blogspot.com

If your interested it can be seen at Flickr Picture Albums :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21373627@N03/with/6474924915/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21373627@N03/sets/72157628006014475/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21373627@N03/sets/72157626411805371/

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.

SP Coast Line - SLO

Owner: Andrew Merriam
Scale: HO
Era : 1953
SP Coast Line-based model railroad featuring Guadalupe, San Luis Obispo yards, the helper district "up the hill" to Santa Margarita and Stenner Creek viaduct.
The model railroad is based upon the Southern Pacific Coast Line in the early 1950’s steam and black widow diesel era. The model covers the area from Santa Margarita to Guadalupe including the Cuesta Grade horseshoe curve and the Stenner Creek Trestle. One branch line includes the Santa Maria Valley to the Betteravia sugar beet refinery. A second branch includes the award winning double track 1912 bascule bridge to the port of San Pedro.
Scenic highlights include Stenner Creek Trestle and Horseshoe Curve, Serrano to Cuesta Summit and Guadalupe and the six foot long bascule bridge module.
Scenery is about 75% complete.
The mainline totals about 340 feet with super elevated curves and handlaid track where visible. Operations are with Digitrax DCC and sound equipped locomotives.
Operations include yard switching, several peddlers and 4 through freights and 6 through passenger trains.

Cuesta Grade

Owner: Robert Raymond
Layout Location: Orlando ?

Cuesta Grade simulates Southern Pacific Railroad Operations between California’s Watsonville and San Luis Obispo in 1951.
The railroad runs off a rough copy of the actual timetable, moving freight and passengers in an efficient manner.
A computer dispatches the layout under TT&TO format.

SP bay area branch line

O Scale - Late steam
Owner: Neil Chichizola
Layout Location: San Carlos.
Southern Pacific O scale 14’ X 26’ purpose built room. Late steam and early diesel SP bay area branch line.
Track complete with about half sceniced.
Hand laid turnouts.
Many examples of craftsman kit and scratch-built rolling stock.

Southern Pacific Railroad Coast Route

Southern Pacific Railroad Coast Route
HO Scale - 1952
Owner: Steve McCarthy
Layout Location : LA area
Size: 15’x25’
Basic Design: Around the Wall Triple Helix with Peninsula on each level, Clockwise=East to West
Theme:Mainline Class One Railroad
Locale:Coastal California-Oxnard to Guadelupe, with branch line to Saticoy and Santa Paula
Operation Era: July/August 1952
Scenic Era: Mid 50s-mostly, Steam and Diesel
Mainline Run: 120’
Minimum Radius:24”
MINIMUM TURNOUT: #4 yards, #6 Main
Benchwork: Combination table top, shelving, & Hollow core doors
Height: 36”-72”
Roadbed: Cork
Track: Code 100 Atlas Flex Track
Scenery: Ceiling Tile, Plaster of Paris/Newspaper, Ground Foam, & Decorative Sand
Backdrop: Masonite
Control: Digitrax DCC, 3 throttles
Operations: TT/TO as per 1952 Southern Pacific Coast & Los Angeles Division Employee Timetables, car card forwarding, trains run sequentially, no fast clock, Combination mainline runs, work locals, & yard switching,
Maximum train length-15 car+caboose, 2 GPs, Fs, PAs or one steam engine for through trains, 1 road switcher for locals Trains Run: 98/99 (Morning Daylights), 71/72 (Sad Sack), CME/CMW (Zippers), 2 westbound freights, 2 eastbound freights, Guadelupe Local, Oxnard Local, Santa Paula Local, Smokey, 1 West Bound ATSF (due to earthquake damage in the Tehachipis)
Motive & Rolling Stock: 90% Athearn Blue box, 4 P2K locos, 2 Atlas locos, 1 Kato loco, 1 Walther’s loco, 2 IHC locos, KD#5/58 couplers, KD/lifelike metal wheelsets

San Jose Shelf Switcher

N Scale
Owner: Byron Henderson
Layout Location: San Jose.CA
This compact (18" X 72") Layout is based on Western Pacific and Southern Pacific trackage around 5th St. and 7th St. in San Jose, CA.
I'm now working on a terminal-themed N scale layout to share my garage with a family car, but before I started I thought it would be a good idea to build some sort of a trial layout.
The layout is inspired by real industries and street running around 5th street and 7th street in San Jose, CA, but does not exactly match the real railroad configurations.
There is more on this layout and the real-life elements that inspired it in an article in the Layout Design Journal published by the Layout Design SIG. This was LDJ #29 published in January, 2004.

SP Coast Line

HO Scale - circa 1950
Owner: James Donlon
Layout Location: St. Josephs St., Santa Barbara, CA
James’ HO scale Southern Pacific Coast Line is a three deck representation of the Southern Pacific Coastline route.
The circa 1950 era allows a mix of steam, first generation diesels and a few second generation diesels.
The railroad seeks to faithfully recreate the SP’s Ventura Sub Division operations between Burbank Junction (roughly Glendale CA) and Sea Cliff (south Santa Barbara) with 350 feet of mainline in an around the 22’ x 19’ room.
The railroad was built for operation. Using an original SP timetable from the era, James dispatches trains based on the actual time table of the day using and 8:1 fast clock to cover a 24 hour period in 3 hours with an average of 16 to 20 trains operating per session..
The times of the trains on his model are within minutes of the actual 1952 SP
timetable.
Trains include through and local freights as well as named passenger consists. Trains run as scheduled and extras.
Towns and landmarks along the route are captured in the layout including Santa Susana Pass, the yard at Oxnard and the “Y” for the Santa Paula branch line.
Entry to the layout requires navigating a “CRAWL under” so be prepared.

Santa Barbara Subdivision

HO scale - era 1994
Owner: Bruce Morden
Layout Loacation: Serena Avenue, Carpinteria, CA
Bruce Morden’s HO scale Southern Pacific Santa Barbara Subdivision is another 2-car garage.
The Southern Pacific Santa Barbara Subdivision models an area from Carpinteria to Goleta.
Bruce’s layout is a work in progress and so far there is no scenery.
Tracks have been completed on the first of three proposed levels.
Two staging yards are completed and one medium sized on line yard.
Construction includes “thin wall”, L-girder, and open grid. Roadbed includes solid masonite spline and plywood-homosote sandwiches.
Bruce hopes to one day extend the tracks over Cuesta grade to San Miguel.
“I have had some trains running but am taking some steps backward to progress forward.
All the locomotives, rolling stock and mock-up structures are coming off so that I can construct the supports for the second level. Once that is in, we will reactivate the first level and proceed to lay track on the second level.
Recently Bruce have open a blog. Ckeck here:

SP coast line

N scale - circa 1964
Owner: Charles Burns
Layout Location: Jamaica Street, Morro Bay, CA
Modeling the SP coast line from Santa Barbara to Guadalupe, with the Lompoc branch, circa 1964.
The 21' x 20' layout is on two levels with a double track helix at each end. The lower deck is the staging area and storage yards.
The mainline is 300 feet long with over 1,000 feet of track overall. There is a very large visible staging yard.
There are also two balloons, one under each helix, to turn trains.
He is running a pure DCC layout. He has a UR91 and radio throttles.
Charlie has scratch built several intricate steel trestles found on this route, various SP structures and even SP-style telephone poles. He also has modeled the ocean itself about as well as anybody.
He operates on a 1964 SP timetable which includes the Daylight, Lark, and Coast Mail. Freights include piggyback trains Nos. 371, 2, 3, and 4, plus a reefer block and lumber train. Control is DCC.
Charlie's layout has appeared in MODEL RAILROADER and the Mar/Apr 2005 issue of N SCALE RAILROADING. This layout will be on the layout tour for the Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society's 2009 Annual Conference in San Luis Obispo on October 28 - November 1, 2009.
He is also making all the signals operational. They are controlled by the turnouts on either side of a siding. The control information cascades down the line to turn signals yellow and red or green.
This is a very impressive layout.
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The Southern Pacific Coast Line

HO scale - mid-50's
Owner: Jim Pattison
Layout Location: Montana
A depiction of the Coast Line as seen in the mid-50's.
Based on the automobiles on the layout, I'd say it was set sometime in the summer of 1957.
Most of the layout is centered around San Luis Obispo and Santa Margarita.
Since I lived in Santa Margarita in 1956-57, this is the single largest portion of the layout.
This layout was destroyed last winter in preparation for a move to Washington.
Hopefully, a new, bigger, better Coast Line will emerge from the ashes.

Southern Pacific Coast Line

N scale - 1974
Owner: Denny Turani
Layout Location: Saronno (Varese) - Italy
A model railroad layout in N scale representing a portion of the Southern Pacific Coast Line in Central California between Callender and Surf, including Guadalupe yard, set in 1974.
Tracks are down and scenery is half-way.
The layout is focused on realistic operations.
Some Op-sessions are taken place.

Los Osos Valley Railroad

HO scale - November 1949
Owner: Paul and Dorothy Deis
Layout Location: Windsong Way, Paso Robles, CA
A large 24 x 36 foot HO railroad on 2 decks depicting the Southern Pacific Railroads Coast Line from San Luis Obispo to San Miquel California as it was in November 1949.
The upper deck is reached via the climb up the Cuesta (Cuesta Grade as locals call it). The new railroad will feature San Luis Obispo, Cuesta Grade, Santa Margarita, Atascadero Paso Robles and San Miquel.
Currently we are laying track the San Luis Obispo Yard

Chittenden, Pajaro & Coyote RR

HO Scale – 1940-1953
Owner: Chuck Catania
Layout location: Gilroy
This 13' x 21' layout models the Southern Pacific Coast Division from Watsonville to San Jose in the 1940-1953 era.
The mainline is three loops, around-the-room on two levels with a helix, maximum grade is 2%. Bench work is open frame construction with 1/2" plywood sub-roadbed, Atlas Code 83 track on cork roadbed. Tortoise switch machines operate the Walthers DCC friendly turnouts.
Fascia mounted panels provide walk around train and route management using C/MRI hardware and custom software.
Digitrax with radio throttles, are used for locomotive control only. An electrically interlocked swing gate provides access to the center of the layout.
Dave Biondi painted the backdrop which depicts the west foothills along the SP mainline from Coyote to Morgan Hill
Track is 75% complete, scenery is 5% complete.

Captosoquel & Watsonville

N Scale - 1950's era
Owner: Gordon Searle
layout Location: San Jose
"I model Southern Pacific prototype, 1950's era, coast line and Santa Cruz branch line.
My layout size is 14'-6" long X 3' at one end and 4'-6" on the other end.
How complete is the layout scenery?? Is any layout ever truly complete? Not if the interest is there to transform it into something better! But in all seriousness, layout is in the 90% range for completion.
I use 2 DC (MRC) power packs and an Irish temper for running my trains!
My rolling stock consists of 1944 FRA freight cars, SP Daylights, Larks, Suntan Special and stainless steel and red letterboards. The power pool consists of Alco PA's and EMD E9's in Daylight paint scheme, F3 and F7 in black widow, GS4 4449, a pair of SD7s also in black widow scheme. A must-see for any SP fan!

South San Francisco

O scale - Late steam/early diesel era
Owner: George Solimine
Layout Location: ___?
This is a shelf layout around the perimeter of a 20'x24' garage.
Scenery is currently about 50% complete.
George models the late steam/early diesel era, and various SP steam engines and a few "Black Widow" diesels are featured. The curves are 60" radius.
The garage is shared by several old automobiles, another hobby George enjoys.
Check out George's beautifully re-detailed, great running Max Gray AC-9.

Vasona Branch

HO scale – Summer 1932
Owner. Robert Bowdidge
Layout Location: 1623 Fairorchard Ave San Jose CA
It’s summer 1932, and the Great Depression has taken hold in the U.S.
Even with the depression, Santa Clara’s crops still head for Eastern markets.
Apricots fresh and dried, prunes, and cherries from the Valley of Heart’s Delight all are grown here, and all get exported to the rest of the country.
The valley is still covered in orchards, and make a beautiful sight when they flower in the spring.

The Valley before Silicon

N scale – circa 1947-49
Owner. Enzo Fortuna
Layout Loacation: Assago (Milano) - Italy
SP Coast Division, San Francisco – San Jose commute line
Around the wall layout in a point-to-point configuration depicting the coast line from 3rd & Townsend mission station to Santa Clara.
The partial modeled Permanente branch and the Kaiser cement plant add operation choice and variants to the commutes rush and named trains as Lark and Daylights and freight traffic servicing the City. Mission Bay yard is an hidden staging at one end and Lenzen Ave. shop and SJ yard operate as visible staging at the other end.
Handlaid turnouts using FastTracks jigs and code 55 ME flex.
Scratchbuilded structures follow the prototype landmarks mixed to laser and hydrocal kits. Scenery still in "plywood" stage ... Work in progress.

Along San Francisco's bayside

N scale - Era mid'50s to early '60s
Owner: John & Cindy Petrovitz
Layout Loacation: South San Francisco
A 12' X 23' N scale layout depicting the SP and the California State Belt Railroad along San Francisco's bayside waterfront area, located along the walls of the layout.
On a central peninsula, (SP's subsidiary) the Northwestern Pacific is portrayed with a freelanced compilation of Petaluma, Tiburon, and Healdsburg CA areas on one side, then a section of the Eel River canyon, including a section along the Scotia Buffs, on the other.
The foot of Market St. in San Francisco is represented with a California St. cable car marking the end of its inbound run, across Market St. from Number One Market St., the SP's headquarters. And across the Embarcadero from One Market is the Ferry Bldg, busy receiving commuters arriving on PCC's of the San Francisco Municipal Railway on Market St.
The State Belt runs along the Embarcadero and in the streets below Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower.
SP's Third and Towsend Station receives Trains 99, the 'Daylight' and 75, the 'Lark' as well as the busy schedule of 'commutes' during to a 'loose' era between the mid 1950's and the early '60's.
The WP and the AT&SF have some limited trackage as well (rather prototypically).
The scenery is about 90% complete (though Telegraph Hill looks somewhat like 1906 yet).