Saturday, November 17, will be the last run for Mike Murphy’s HO scale Santa Rosa Pacific Railroad in Camarillo, CA. Mike is moving and down-sizing. The railroad will be dismantled and all locomotives, rolling stock, structures and related equipment will be sold. The open house is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. The location is 13015 Rancho Vista Court in Camarillo. Call Mike at 805-491-3721 for further details. This is one of the finest model railroads in Southern California. The Santa Rosa Pacific is a free lanced transition era railroad featuring Santa Fe, Southern Pacific and Union Pacific trains and operations. This layout is located in a dedicated 26' x 30' room. It features many nice highly detailed structures, including an eighteen-stall roundhouse. At prototypical speeds a train requires thirty-five minutes to travel the mainline. Several branch lines and a fiddle/staging yard feed the mainline operations. Mike has incorporated many, many details to give the various layout scenes a very realistic feeling. The layout features a heix, detailed backdrop, weathered structures and an expansive harbor area with a dock, sea wall, dredge and other marine features. Here are cab ride video clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHOcRgl7470 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKTT_MkFp8Y&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abfidBoB61I&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qda84NAAbU&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiIK1SNyaBU&feature=relmfu Bob Chaparro Moderator Model Railroads of Southern California http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Model_Railroads_Of_Southern_California/
