...wherein I write about the research and modeling efforts around my personal history project: the R Street corridor in Sacramento California.
Ultimately my goal is to build a HO scale model railroad layout along three walls of a spare bedroom. As a start, I plan to build one or two modules for the Sacramento Modular Railroaders club. Both the home layout and the modules will be based on how R Street looked in August 1950. The modules will spotlight some of my favorite buildings that I won't be able to fit in my spare bedroom layout. The bedroom layout will cover R street from 2nd street up to about 7th Street.
Along the way I'm happily discovering offshoots and travelling down strange tangents in history triggered by my research on the railroads, industries and people that inhabited R Street.
So, let's explore this gritty industrial corridor and all the facets of history that are connected with it. Your comments and questions are more than welcome. Feel free to contact me at wpcon2008(the at symbol)yahoo.com.
SoundRail 2024
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In alternate years, the layout owners around Puget Sound, Washington put
together an operating weekend called, for obvious reasons, SoundRail. I
attended...
Vintage Gangsta
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So with another police car, there had to be another bigger, better Gangster
car. If the previous getaway car was for the lower order thugs to escape
from t...
Phase 1 D-Day Diorama Is Complete
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German View of the Invasion. This is opposite the view that most visitors
to the
diorama will see.
We wrapped up work on the D-Day diorama today. Keith ar...
Getting Way Too Excited About Terminal Strips
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In my last post about replacing the Vasona Branch's signal controller, you
might have spotted those odd terminal strips in the pictures of the new
signa...
Stop the Presses
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More like stop the model making.
Overnight it was pointed out to me that the domes on the winecar look out
of proportion to the prototype photo.
And I ...
Rabbit holes - Mosslanda
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Once in a while something appears on the internet and you think to
yourself. "Ooh. That's imteresting. I'll look into that." One such thing
happened the o...
Searchligh Missing Part Obtained and Installed
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When I installed the Southern Pacific H-2 Searchlight Signal I had brought
together parts from various locations. You can see the searchlight and
read ...
Open House on Sunday November 20. 2022
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After a few years off, my layout will be open again for the annual
MD-DE-PA-NJ model railroad open house schedule for November. Go to
http://www.modelrai...
Last Marker Lamp
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Summer 2022 issue of the Marker Lamp
I've published my last Marker Lamp, the quarterly publication of the Lone
Star Region of the NMRA. I took over as e...
Backdrop time?
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Stevens Institute corner. Sybil's Cave at right (at the power outlet) and
the castle at left edge of the panel.
Could it be time to do the backdrop???
Fre...
FREE ROBUX GENERATOR NO HUMAN VERIFICATION [M0U]
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How to Get Free Robux? Methods to Use Robux Generator - Robux generator
People often search for “Free Robux” and “Free Robux no survey” on Google
is it ...
A Proto Project
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Caboose X-181 “The Hutch”Layouts need rolling stock. This layout, (whatever
it turns out to be,) will need it too. Most of the stock is planned to be
...
Tribute To Our Ukrainian Friends
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*Tribute To Our Ukrainian Friends*
Indeed, we salute our friends in the Ukraine! Stay strong! Stay brave!
Outbound B&M train MP4 has left its tail end ...
KENWORTH AERODYNE
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This 1:32 scale truck proved to be a labour of love. Based on the Revell
kit, which amounts to a snap-together affair, countless hours were spent
addin...
LDJ-69: Coal-hauling and Compact Layouts
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After a much-longer-than-expected wait, I'm happy to have *Layout Design
Journal* #69 published, complete with three terrific layout stories which
happe...
A Lucky Find.....
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While not an update on the "march to staging", this is one that I wanted
to share that answered a lot of questions for me.
Recently on Facebook (and abo...
Updated the Control System
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So again, a long hiatus from posting here. I've still been working on my
layout, have no fear. I'll make a brief update here. Thanks to fellow Navy
man L...
Editorial
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Today I sat down to read the latest issue of Continental Modeller. I had a
pleasant surprise right at the start with the editorial. Normally both
Contin...
When Were Trains Invented? World, America, Britain
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When Were Trains Invented? Trains have been around for a long time, their
invention revolutionized the way of transportation and it fundamentally
changed...
Small Air Compressors I have Known
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My first attempts at airbrushing were done with an inexpensive air brush
and a can of compressed air. As the air was depleted from the can it would
turn c...
One-to-One Museum storage at Westwood.
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A trip to Hornby at Westwood near Margate last December presented the
opportunity to visit the storage facility in one of the empty warehouses on
the site....
Whoops
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Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST by Hatton’s. Weathering and fitting of custom Narrow
Planet plates by The Model Centre. Standard gauge industrial layout by me?
Russian Scientists
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My beloved took this picture about two weeks ago when there was snow in
London. Taken because there was snow in London, which is/has become a rare
enough...
The grass is greener in Ma & Pa country.
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Broke out the Heiki Flockstar and I’m trying my hand at static grass. It’s
fun and pretty straightforward.
To left of the road is just ground foam, to t...
Where's Terry?
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Where have I been? The short answer is wrapping up my job and preparing
for retirement. Don't let anyone tell you that retiring, and retiring
properly, ...
Hello, old friend.
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On November 14th I took the British Oak/ Crigglestone Screens layout to the
Granite City Train show in St. Cloud MN. It was two years since the layout
had ...
Switching in Grimstad
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The layout has been dormant for many months, so I just felt like taking a
picture of my brass NMJ Superline 32.290 steamer doing some switching in
Grimstad...
On the road again…
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National Train Show – Cleveland, Ohio. July 18-20, 2014 Just a couple
weeks to go and for the first time in over a year the CNJ Bronx Terminal
will be set...
Grain to Export Elevators
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Andy Laurent and I share several common modeling interests; one of them is
that we both are modeling harbor areas. Andy's new layout, set in 1952,
feature...
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This website is no longer maintained by the NYCSHS. It is obsolete.Please
go to www.NYCSHS.org for our new website that is maintained.No information
on th...
WELCOME
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Hi and welcome to my small attempt to have a reference for my model
railroad. It is a 11.5' by 22' double deck layout in HO scale with
digitrax DCC contro...
The B&O Railroad in the Civil War
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I am a frustrated reader and researcher. It's no secret that my personal
favorite railroad is the Baltimore & Ohio. I grew up within 5 miles of the
Old Mai...
Winnipeg Model Train Stores
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I've started to accumulate a list of Winnipeg-area model train stores.
If you have any more to add, please comment here. Thanks!
Research (1)
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Some research for a car float layout placed here so that I'll know where to
find it
http://youtu.be/zUCJNx-Ex6w
http://www.flickr.com/photos/triborough/295...
The Dixie Donut Lives on as the Augusta Railway
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Old layouts never die...
They just move around.
The Dixie Central is ALIVE! Yes, ALIVE!
The design has been reinvigorated as the Augusta Railway!
Come...
Building the Etowah River Bridge: Part 1
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The CSX W&A subdivision crosses the Etowah River in scenic Bartow County,
Georgia about 40 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta. This location has
great se...
Smittie's Overhead Hoist
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One of the things I felt Smittie should have in his salvage yard was an
overhead hoist so that he could move large/heavy items to/from rail cars
and other ...
Working on the Staging Yard
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*R*ecently I've been very busy at work and at home etc. etc. and hadn't
much time for my layout. Just in the last few days I could find few minutes
here an...
How Much Time is Too Much Time?
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So lately there have been rumblings that Daddy spends too much time in the
train room... Coming out of the cold and rainy season, I can see where
this cou...
Insulation, Old School: Wax Impregnating Maple
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Apologies for the long gap. We are back!
Here's a challenge. Making a good custom-built insulating panel in 1910,
without use of asbestos, custom ceramics...
Remembering Mike Stokinger
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Published in San Francisco Chronicle on October 17, 2010 Mike Stokinger A
long time railroad buff and friend of many, died Sunday September 26th, he
was 56...
Sacramento's historic streetcars moved
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I got word a month or two ago that a group of Sacramento streetcars owned
by Dain Domich, president of "Friends of Light Rail & Transit," were being
mov...
MR Mag Project Layout Inspired Me
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The Milwaukee Road Chestnut Street Division, or the "Beer Line", is a model
railroad layout based on a famous Milwaukee prototype and constructed by
the Mo...