Photos visit N scale San Diego Model RR Museum

[atsf_arizona]

Hi, all,

Thanks to Jim Bence, Tony Burzio, Mark Galbreath, and all
the other San Diego Society of N Scale (SDSONS) members for hosting me and
the Santa Fe Trainmaster to the N scale Pacific Desert Lines at the San
Diego Model Railroad Museum ( http://www.sdsons.org ) on Tuesday night 1/18/05.
Thanks, Jim and team!

Following are 24 photos from the visit of the fantasy Santa Fe
Trainmaster to the San Diego Model RR Museum's N scale Pacific
Desert Lines, on Tuesday evening 1/18/05, go here to see them:

http://community.webshots.com/album/255587925UJbNhx

Here are few extract shots:

They have a well known, incredible model of the San Diego Santa Fe station:

I humbly hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making the photos.

Hello also to John Haverstock, visiting from Ohio, who was there
running that night also. A 90-car CSX coal drag running in the desert
east of San Diego.... now *that's* was something to see too!

 

[Matthyro]

Wow, great photos John. Thanks for posting them. What an amazing layout.

 

[dispatcher42]

Took me back down memory lane looking at that station. Have stood inside it many times catching the train up to Fullerton (Disneyland).
Always rode the club car up - did they ever have domes on that train......LOL
Take Care and Keep on Track
Bob
www.vancouvertraingang.com

 

[interurban]

Fantastic, Thanks for the pics

I have seen that station posted in the thread all sorts of stations.
Tha model looks GREAT
Is this it?

http://www.the-gauge.com/showthread.php?t=5289&page=3&pp=15

 

[sams]

great pics!
incredible layout!
thx for sharing, john

 

[atsf_arizona]

Interurban,

Yes, the photo in the referenced thread is the San Diego station. You can see that the N scale model is faithful, exact-to-scale, uncompressed replica.

San Diego Station building notes from Salamon


A little note about the station from David Salamon, who was a member
there while the station was being built.

George "Pete" Peters built that station, David lended a small hand in the roof.
Pete had taken the center tile sections from I believe a Volmer sheet
and used them to make a small 1.5" x 2.5" master then made rubber molds
of it. David had 1 or 2 of the molds and every night for about a
month mixed up some devcon 2 ton while epoxy, take about 8 hours
to cure, the stuff was very hard on the molds, Dave thinks Pete
ended up having to make a few more molds before they had enough
to do the whole roof. Dave doesn't remember how many members
were making sections but it took a while.

After Pete got a box full of castings, he then began the
laborous part of cutting them and attaching them to the roof.
Pete in Dave's opinion was one of the best modeler out there,
and when he was done you could not tell where the small casting sections were.

Pete is a true craftsman. On the SDSONS web page under
members photos, you can see his new Westside Lumber Co. in TTn3.5,
that's right, using N gauge track to represent 3' narrow gauge in TT
scale 1:120, and everything is scratchbuilt!)

 

[atsf_arizona]

By the way, reason the modeled station has a 'front porch covered area' and the
photo of today's real station does not, is that portion of the building was removed
prior to the time that the City realized what a architectural gem it had there.

So, the model represents exactly the way the station was during the prime years of
Santa Fe passenger train service on the San Diegans.