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Hogan Studios
This is the business on site at the old depot https://maps.app.goo.gl/KYmYnchqmCXQzzYD8?g_st=com.yahoo.Aerogram.ShareExtension
By Justin Rowe · #896 ·
New location of the Sacramento Northern depot in Chico
Here is the Google Maps link to the new location https://maps.app.goo.gl/8b2PJCEL2WaR7YPo7?g_st=com.yahoo.Aerogram.ShareExtension
By Justin Rowe · #895 ·
44 tonner O-Scale; amazing SN layout
I saw this 44 tonner?online. I was unaware they had one in O-Scale.? https://mthtrains.com/20-20966-1 Also for O-Scale enthusiasts, I never heard what happened with the?incredible?Sacramento
By Justin Rowe · #894 ·
Mulberry Brewing
There is a Sacramento Northern pizza place with a micro brewery, built on the site of the old mulberry shops in Chico. He has a layout with a scratchbuilt Mulberry shops. It¡¯s decorated with
By Justin Rowe · #893 ·
Re: SN 405 Photos
Thank you for these insights Garth! Loved the bit about the pantograph. I hear the Key invented the device. via groups.io <mallardlodge1000@...> escribi¨®:
By Daniel Levy · #892 ·
SN 405 Photos
Friends, While wandering through Wikimedia, I chanced upon two Bill Larkins photos of SN 405 tied up at the Oroville freight station. They were too good not to share, as the SN Oroville operations
By Garth Groff and Sally Sanford · #891 ·
CAT standards
Hello,There are a lot of custom, scratchbuilt, and kitashed vehicles and buildings for a layout I have done while I have been stuck in places over the years on business. That part is mostly?done now
By Justin Rowe · #890 ·
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pa7mi9d2tv0&feature=shared
Here is another way to power a box car that goes behind the GE steeple cab?that Sacramento northern hadhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=Pa7mi9d2tv0&feature=shared
By Justin Rowe · #889 ·
Re: [WPList] Express Service LCL freigjt
Nick and friends, Long story. About a year before he passed away, Jeff Moreau gave me a packet of papers he said he didn't understand. They are carbon copies of correspondence setting up the WP/SN
By Garth Groff and Sally Sanford · #888 ·
Milpitas
?Beneath the paywall in the Oakland tribune archives,?you could see that it also mentions a Milpitas piggyback ramp, but I couldn¡¯t see the address underneath?in this 1964 ad or article. I
By Justin Rowe · #887 ·
Western Pacific intermodal yard in Oakland
I went into the archives for the Oakland Tribune, it?shows three articles when I searched ¡°western pacific piggyback¡±. One of them (in the date range from 1964 to 1981),?I could see showed that
By Justin Rowe · #886 ·
TOFC intermodal
There are first hand accounts of TOFC trains?from engineers on train orders but no building descriptions. They weren¡¯t all TOFC trains at first in 1973, mixed freight.??When I searched for
By Justin Rowe · #885 ·
Fw: [SacNorthern] Fw: [WPList] Express Service LCL freigjt
I want to say the book by?John J ?Ryczkowski had a lot of truck pictures. I am only home a few days a month so as soon as I get home, I spend time with the kids often.? Here and?there I get to
By Justin Rowe · #884 ·
Fw: [WPList] Express Service LCL freigjt
Hi Garth,?Do you have some info on the LTL LCL trailer service?for the WP with pics from Oakland and SLC? ?Maybe the SN? This person on the WP list?sounds?like he is building a layout.??I work
By Justin Rowe · #883 ·
https://youtube.com/watch?v=R-D041cQozQ&feature=shared
This weathering?video was really impressive although I don¡¯t think I would put very much graffiti on my gondolas while weathering them. I have to try this for the Pittsburg?steel train. They also
By Justin Rowe · #882 ·
Re: Decals
Alps printed decals don't need special paper.? However if you don't over spray them with clear coat or dull coat they are prone to rubbing off.? It is a hot wax process and so the wax will rub off
By Ken Harstine · #881 ·
Re: Decals
Sorry it was just the opposite. The decal paper I found was for use with various types of printers, not necessarily ALPS. The idea was to print the background color so the lettering would appear
By J ROWE · #880 ·
Re: Decals
Justin, I wasn't aware that ALPs printers needed their own special decal paper, and from what I have read other decal papers work fine with ALPS machines. Although ALPS home printers haven't been
By Garth Groff and Sally Sanford · #879 ·
Decals
The decals for the Sacramento Northern Baldwin steeple cab were made from Western Pacific?orange and green paint scheme, orange stripes by Micro Scale together with lettering that was custom made on
By Justin Rowe · #878 ·
One more steeple in the site as well as a GE
One more print here. Also if you ask the guy with a GE steeple on the site he might reduce it to N-Scale if you show him what eBay?chassis it needs to fit. But when I bought a shapeways N-Scale GE
By Justin Rowe · #877 ·