Thanks for the kind words, Rick. Yes, I did open up a couple of videos of the N-scale Howland & Pacific on my YouTube channel, of Rick's layout...
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And part of the layout (Baumgardner Hills) was in N scale for "forced perspective". Does that count for N scale? lol Thanks for the kind words,...
Thanks, guys!
UPDATE: my railroad made the cover sheet of the next issue of Model Railroader magazine:...
Hi all, it's confirmed....my layout will be featured in the March issue of Model Railroader (which comes out in early February). It is already...
Hi, all. John Acosta here, a student of Rick Howland AKA Barstow Rick, both of us from Big Bear Lake, CA. I apologize for the months-long radio...
Haven't been here much lately; been dismantling and downsizing the railroad for our move to warmer climates. ATSF 717 in Hannah Vista John [ATTACH]
Hannah Vista Union Station..... [ATTACH]
Gulf & Pacific #23 among the weeds switching Sarah's Valley. [ATTACH]
One of my favorites....in Hannah Vista Union Station[ATTACH]
A Gulf & Pacific SW among the weeds switching the Sarah's Valley RR industrial area. [ATTACH]
Santa Fe combine 2544 awaiting its next assignment in the East Hannah Vista yard sometime in 1961. [ATTACH]
Yours truly as the conductor and a friend as the engineer, arguing.....[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] ATSF 2028 awaits its next assignment among the weeds in the Hannah Vista caboose yard.
I agree; I use 70 for sidings and branch lines, with no pitfalls.... well worth it! I wish I had more real estate available on my layout; would...
A Santa Fe mixed train departing Franklin summer 1961 with a ex-drover car bringing up the markers. [ATTACH]
SP passenger trains in front of the Davidsville depot: [ATTACH]
2:35 AM at the East Hannah Vista enginehouse as workers prep the locomotives for the next day. [ATTACH]
ATSF Palm Leaf sleeping car in for its COT&S inspection at the busy East Hannah Vista enginehouse. (click on the .jpg for the picture). [IMG]
