Could someone tell me the paint scheme/schemes for these locos? I am in the process of building one in N Scale. I found one reference in our archives to the...
Ken: Are you near the Bay Area? The Western Railway Museum has two SN GE motors with the same basic striping and lettering layout. The 660-661 and most of...
Ken: This is 654 but I'm sure the colors are the same as what you need. This has been done by the railroad museum at Rio Vista, CA, and I am sure it is as...
Tom, Thanks. I am unfortunately on the wrong coast. Given the vagaries of weathering I am not to picky about the exact shade and tint. All of the color...
Friends, Newly posted to SN On-line for July: SACRAMENTO'S UNION TRACTION DEPOT. Drop by at http://people.virginia.edu/~ggg9y/home.html . As always, your...
"J.M", Try Dave Stanley and Jeff Moreau's CENTRAL CALIFORNIA TRACTION COMPANY (Berkeley: Signature Press, 2002). This is an excellent and very comprehensive...
I also carry this book in the Museum gift shop at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum. FRRS members get a 10% discount and I'll even ship it for free ; ) David...
Garth: Wow! Hot tip of the day for sure! Thanks so much! I noticed that this book has 626 photographs. Another wow! I'm quite nostalgic for the 'good...
David: Thanks for your generosity, sir. We are planning a fishing trip to Frenchman's Lake later this summer, so we'll stop in and see you while on that...
... two SN ... 660-661 ... Vista ... orange that ... applied ... Sacramento ... want to do ... instead ... In 1975, the 654 was repained at RVJ with DuPont...
Ken: Customtraxx ( http://www.customtraxx.com/ ) offers their decal set CN-653 for the SN GE steeple cabs. You might be able to adapt much of this set for...
Garth, Thanks for the added information. Customtraxx does not mention doing N scale versions. I will probably use Micro-Scale for the strips and may create...
Cool, looking forward to it and good luck on the fishing! Everytime I cross over the Feather River I keep wishing I had my fishing pole, I will change that...
More have been added to the www.keyrailpix.org Web site within the various albums. A bunch of Emeryville shop equipment pictures along with several on the F...
75 Years Ago Today Pumpkins are now being shipped over the Sacramento Northern Railway from East Gridley siding to the Libby, McNeill & Libby plant at ...
75 years ago... Basic Vegetables in Vacaville is receiving raw field product and shipping out at least 2 trains a week... with four or more box cars in the...
Had a chance to visit and work in the SF Bay Area two weeks past. Traveling through the Caldecott Tunnel toward Orinda I tried to imagine what it was like...
Skipp" The SN tunnel was a long way southeast of the Caldecott. Comparison is something I've avoided due to the differences in the geography at both places. ...
skipp025 wrote: <snip> ... I've never given much thought to the relative altitudes of these tunnels. The *original* Caldecott Tunnel was at a much higher...
Listers, I just took delivery of 2 each of Peterson Supply/Atlas HO Scale CCT GP7's #60 and #70. Andy and Atlas have done an awesome job on this model. As a...
We have a lot of models in the Museum Gift Shop. FRRS Members get 10% off. They are as follows HO Scale Walthers WP Bay Window Caboose #476 24.95 Walthers WP...
Hello to the group, Anyone have any history or stories of how the Ramon (Ferry) obtained its fuel, which I believe was probably a distillate product. Sure the...
When the Ramon was discontinued, the SN returned two tank cars of "White Gasoline" to the Shell Oil folks for credit. These were spotted at the Mallard slip...
Thank you for the reply Tom. Based on my personal experience with white gas, I can only imagine how dangerous the fueling process was. Regards, skipp ... From:...
I now have in the museum gift shop, copies of the former Centenary Video "Sacramento Northern" Now produced by Transit Gloria Mundi. I had an opportunity to...
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