Russell: I like that station a lot. Jason: Is that N-scale 4-12-2 scratch-built or a kit? Either way, it's pretty impressive! Here's mine, this...
Espee has trackage rights on the Yuba River Sub and uses the route when Donner Pass gets a little too crowded with WWII traffic. Here's 4-10-2...
Russell: I love that SP action! Here's Rio Grande 2-8-0 #1159 doing some switching at the cattle pen at Wagon Wheel Gap. It's October, and time...
Rio Grande L-131 2-8-8-2 #3612 taking the house track at Wagon Wheel Gap with an eastbound freight. [IMG] Tom
Rio Grande 2-8-8-2 #3612 lifting an eastbound freight up the 2.2% grade out of South Yuba Canyon. [IMG] Tom
Rio Grande 2-8-0 #1159 sets out a cut of cattle cars at Wagon Wheel Gap to transport stock from high country summer pasture to winter grazing in...
My latest acquisition, an Espee 4-10-2 #5011 from Westside imports. Picked it up on consignment a couple of weeks ago at my LHS, painted and...
Tractive Effort was up from 116,000 lbs (AC-5) to 124,000 lbs (AC-12). Horsepower up from 5460 to 6000. Spoked 63" drivers on AC-6, Baldwin Disc...
A little wildlife drama on Yuba Pass. Woodland Scenics came out with some mountain lions last year, so I thought I'd put one to use. And in case...
Finished up re-motoring some of my old brass with new rare earth magnets--it's like I've got a whole new roster, LOL! Now to finish up the...
Wow, GREAT work, everyone! I spent most of the week re-fitting some old open-frame motors with rare earth magnets and the difference in...
I spent the weekend re-newing some older DC open frame motors with new rare earth magnets on some of my older brass loco stock. Generally, these...
I'm going to continue replacing old magnets in some of my open-frame motors with newer 'rare-earth' types. I remotored 4 brass locos so far--2...
Hard to say what is 'best', IMO it's what works 'best' for you, after a little experimentation. My layout is ALL mountains, the largest ones are...
Here's my contribution, a couple of shots of my 'never was' Rio Grande 2-8-8-4 #3903 pulling a westbound freight up Yuba Pass. The loco is an old...
Geep-fan: Brass is still about the only way you can get large standard-gauge Rio Grande steam in HO. And yes, it's very good for testing...
Good stuff everyone, as usual. Here's my Rio Grande Challenger with a westbound freight crossing the Deer Creek Viaduct partway up Yuba Pass....
I've been working on the backside of the Sierra Buttes the last couple of weeks. Finally getting rid of all of that pink and white foam after...
Espee's Coast Daylight has somehow ended up at Bullard's Bar in the Sierra Nevada on my Yuba River Sub. Maybe it's an excursion, or something....
I'm wondering if TP's section of 3% grades might have figured in on UP's decision to close the line, also. It certainly took UP long enough to...