very nice ! i think it would be very tempting to start aquiring earlier equipment so you could run the occasional ‘olde time’ operating session . steam sure looks great on the SL
Gorgeamous, just Gorgeamous! Steam or diesel, your layout just knocks my socks off, but it was a real treat to see an MT-4 on that bridge. Beautiful work, fantastic photos! Hats off to you for your steam special.
Tom [bow][bow]
Wow…nice photos, Joe. Personally, I think ANYTHING will look great on your layout, but the pictures prove that point. Isn’t steam just grand?
Great shots on a great layout! Thanks for sharing them.
Brian
Yes, steam is fun … and one of these days, I’m hoping to run an official 4449 excursion down the 1980’s era layout. I want the loco to have sound and lights, and to record the event on video, probably as part of my video on Operations (vol 5 of the Siskiyou Line video series).
Joe, won’t you admit that some of the hairs on the back of your neck stood up as you saw that beast trundling down your favourite spots? [:D]
Yep, the actual 4449 excursion that took place down the Siskiyou Line in 1988 was over the top. [tup]
Aw, come on, Joe. You know that in your heart of hearts you want to backdate your layout to 1952 so you can run steam, black widow F’s and tiger striped AS-616’s.
Shoot. Go whole hog. Take it back to the late 1940’s and you can run those neat SP 4-8-0’s on the Coos Bay Branch.
Andre
Andre … you tempt me …
[:-^] (trying to ignore the impulses)
Come on, Joe. You know you really want to.
Andre
Geeze, I like it when you two talk dirty! [:P]
Joe, I’m wondering about precedent. I have seen a photo of an AC (cab forward, not sure if it was a 5 or later) on the line somewhere near Cantarra loop which is above Black Butte. So, I would like to know if they went all the way to Eugene or cut off after the Siskiyous. I know they ran north out of Dunsmuir.
Joe,
What do you about the possiblity of having 2 eras on your layout? i.e., one operating session it’s the 50’s, a month later it’s the 80’s?
I’m asking in part because I’m thinking about having a 2-era module-sized layout myself.
Why? Because I’m also an 80’s guy myself, but as someone mentioned above, steam and SP black widows are just irresistable!
John:
I believe cab forwards of every type ran over Cascade Summit out of Eugene.
However, it was only the very early cab forwards that ran down the Siskiyou Line only as far as Roseburg (from Eugene), and not frequently at that. More typical were Decks (2-10-2s) and Hogs (2-8-0s).
I like it when other friends bring over their stuff and run it on my layout…it wasn’t long ago that one of my buddies brought over his steam locomotives and ran it on my layout…it was a nice change of pace seeing the challenger running instead of all my diesel stuff…i even have a few pieces of rolling stock of the steam era and ran them with his locomotive…it was a fun day…chuck
my friend’s 4-8-4 running on the layout.
The line splits at Black Butte, with one line (the original Oregon & California) going through Medford, Ashland and Roseburg. The other line (completed in 1927) went through Klamath Falls.
Cab-forwards were prohibited from the original line after one of the early 2-8-8-2’s blew up in the late teens due to low water. With a grade approaching 3.3% ascending, that doesn’t give a cab-forward much of a margin of safety when working hard uphill. GS class engines (4-8-4’s) were also prohibited due to the cab overhang hitting the sides of some of the curved tunnels.
Cab-forwards were allowed all the way to Portland on the line through K-Falls as were the GS class engines.
The largest SP classes generally seen on the Siskiyou line were the F class 2-10-2’s and the Mt class 4-8-2’s.
Andre