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San Francisco wharf details
Waterfronts have always been interesting to me since they are often funky and usually have lots of history visible. I live just across the bay from San Francisco and a couple weeks ago I took the ferry...
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Neat BNSF HY Rail Truck
I work in Point Richmond, California and we have a big BNSF yard (formerly Santa Fe) nearby. I have always loved trucks that have been heavily customized for their work and this of course includes...
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More Hy Rail trucks
Or is it Hi Rail? Seen in Point Richmond, Ca. See also this previous post.
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BNSF autorack loading yard in Point Richmond, California
I try to go for a walk every day at lunch and I usually climb this big hill behind the office where I work. From the top of this hill I can look down on a mini-yard which is dedicated to loading and...
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Still more road-rail trucks
This nice Ford road-rail truck caught while the driver was picking up his lunch in Point Richmond, California. The track of the truck’s wheels always looks narrow on these road-railers since they need...
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The Northwestern Pacific locomotive roster in the 1920s
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad was an amalgamation of some 60 different railroad companies and was the result of a business agreement between the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads to jointly...
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Modeling Northwestern Pacific locomotives part 1: NWP 4-4-0s in the 1920s
Small, nimble on the rails and with beautiful proportions, the classic 4-4-0 “American” has always been one of my favorite engine types. As I mentioned in my last post, the Northwestern Pacific...
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Modeling Northwestern Pacific locomotives part 2: Modeling NWP 8
I’ve always loved NWP number 8 as shown in this 1915 view below. I’d like to try to use this IHC 4-4-0 Old Time American as a starting point to model NWP 8. These models have been around since the...
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Interacting with Miniature Railroading posted a link to this great one-hour long video of a railroad in Eritrea. Eritrea: Rebirth of a Railway and Steam Trains Play full size in new browser window
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How’d I get Ted Wurm’s book?
I recently mentioned to my wife that one of the books that got me interested in small railroads as a child was Dorothy Newell Deane’s 1960 book Sierra Railway, which I found in my grandparents’ library...
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The Corte Madera Creek Bridges
Corte Madera Creek trestle. Facing east, north is to the left. One of the clearest remaining artifacts of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad in southern Marin County is the Corte Madera Creek trestle...
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Learning a bit about diesels
I’m not a big diesel guy. I like some of the early unit passenger trains like the Pioneer Zephyr and M-10000. I can usually tell E units from F units and I love the early slant nose E units like the E3...
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Capturing the mood of an era: Northwestern Pacific and California in the...
I prefer to model the 1920′s. I settled on this era in a process I outlined years ago. However, I was not alive in the 1920′s. My parents weren’t either. My grandmother died over ten years ago and...
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California Railroad Museum
Last week we took the Amtrak Capital Corridor train from Emeryville to Sacramento and walked over to the California State Railroad Museum. I had never been there before and it is really a great place....
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