Abandoned industrial spur.
Former spur used for circus-style loading and unloading
A work-in-progress cattle loading pen and ramp.
Leftovers from a recent track rehabilitation project.
One of two hobo camps on the railroad. I can't get these folks to move!
Along the mainline. In the background are several citrus packing houses.
A scene like this has been done to death but I just had to stage the 1956 Buick CHP car from the TV show "Highway Patrol" starring Broderick Crawford. I'm still looking for an appropriate HO scale figure of a man in a suit and hat.
What model id the plug door reefer?
ReplyDeleteIF you DO find a figure to use in the CHP cars sound wise it has to have a gruff dog bark sound....
To honor those reefer trains that carried the potatoes from Bakersfield to Eastern markets, the Daylight Express PCR/NMRA 2017 convention committee offered four Accurail HO 40-foot steel reefer kits in the Santa Fe Grand Canyon paint scheme from the mid-1950s, as a representation of the reefers that ran endlessly to Chicago—and points east—to provide California produce to the Eastern United States."
DeleteThe custom-run cars were lettered as SFRD Class Rr-19 cars. They were numbered 21217, 21220, 21241 and 21255. These numbers correctly belong to Santa Fe's Class Rr-19 reefers and are part of the number series 21000 to 21392. That number series was assigned to the Rr-19 cars after they went through a modernization program in 1953. Part of the upgrade included replacing the swing doors with plug doors. The models have plug doors. Not all prototype Rr-19 reefers received the plug doors, however.
Looking good! Tanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteBob how to I get in touch with you? Modeling ATSF San Jacinto District.
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