SP Friant Branch layout

HO-scale
Owner: Jay Styron
Layout location: Santa Barbara
The 12' x 32' layout is housed in a fully finished room built under his house for the railroad.
He has recreated the Southern Pacific's Friant Branch in the Fresno, California, area.
The design of the layout includes careful consideration of aisle space, layout access, storage and lighting. Industries modeled include citrus farms, wineries, fruit packing houses and reefer icing facilities. Scenery 70%
Operations are DCC controlled.

Southern Pacific Inyo Subdivision

HO scale - Modern
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:

SP Mojave Subdivision

HO Scale - from 1988 to1990
Owner: Jim Niell
Layout Location: Madera
This 34’ by 38’ HO layout depicts the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe railroads from Bakersfield to Mojave from 1988 to1990.
The layout is a multilevel, point-to-point design with staging yards, encompassing 400 feet of mainline with passing tracks, features the Tehachapi Loop and Caliente Horseshoe Curve.

Tehachapi Sub

N scale – mid ‘95
Owner: dave n
Layout Location: Milepost 351.8 on the North Slope
An awesome scratch built Modesto depot.
I model the pass as it was in early to mid '95, when SP and Santa Fe ruled the hill!
Photos of the N scale layout of Tehachapi pass: