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    Thanks, Jerry, I'll check for those issues. Soon as I can remember where I filed them.:oops: -- Paul
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    I must have somehow missed that issue, Jerry. Funny, but now that you mention it, I can't remember ever having seen a color photo of that layout. The truck and the hay bales and the underpass are undoubtedly the same ones, but the photo I was thinking of is definitely a black-and-white, and it...
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    Jerry -- I myself am closing in on that dangerous age, so I can relate. I know you're cleaning out some of your stuff (by all means, don't trash those old mags!!), but it would be great if you could locate some of those old articles. By the way, I noticed on that other thread a reference to...
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    Jerry -- No sweat about the spelling. What difference should a single 'n' make? (For the life of me, I couldn't have remembered Mr. Humann's first name until you brought it up.) He and his wife -- according to one account I've read -- spent something like 40 years building and improving that...
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    Passenger car in N scale

    In the prototype photos, although they probably weren't the original equipment, those look to definitely be two-axle trucks.
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    Jerry -- I never saw it in person, no, but I do remember it from articles (and at least one memorable cover photo) in years-ago issues of Model Railroader. As I recall, his premier passenger train (modeled after the Daylight, naturally enough) was called the "Bluebonnet." Did you get to see it...
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    Remember that line well, Jerry. Made a number of trips back and forth on it between Portland and San Francisco when I was growing up, back in the glory days of the Shasta Daylight and Cascade. As to the 4449's Railfan trip, I remember her pulling into the station that night, just before...
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    Jerry -- I practically lived in Old Town during the Railfair that opened that museum! Had my kids trackside along Roseville Road the morning UP's Challenger and FEF rolled into town for the event. Chased the 4449 out of town at the end of the fair! Crazy week, as I recall. The scent of coal...
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    Creating Store Signs for the Layout

    Bill, I know the feeling. As indicated by that post right after my initial one in this thread. - Paul
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    Gill's it was, Jerry! Then, in the 80s for a time it became The Whistle Stop (and if I recall correctly, there was an affiliation with The Original Whistle Stop in Pasadena). Nowadays, it's Bruce's. I was up there last September and it's moved from the end location to the center of that strip...
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    Creating Store Signs for the Layout

    Disregard this post. Fingers have been doing the walking . . . in their sleep, again.
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    Creating Store Signs for the Layout

    Bill -- One quick suggestion before you get into the actual signage: Check your spelling on the "FURNITURE" sign. - Paul
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    So, what does your wife think?

    My wife has come to enjoy the hobby (she was always supportive of me in it), and lately has turned into a pretty fair structure builder. She really can't wait 'til it's time to get with the scenery, though! -- Paul
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    I missed out on the Sacramento Northern, unfortunately, arriving in Sacramento (from San Francisco) in 1970. By that time, the only Sac Northern power to be seen were geeps painted up in WP-styled "Perlman green" and orange. Interestingly enough, though, the former Sacramento Northern depot in...
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    Spent 17 years in Sacramento myself, back in the day, Jerry. At one point, I lived just east of the WP yards on Freeport Bl. Went to sleep most nights to the sound of boxcars being slammed into one another. Loved it! -- Paul
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