My formerly free Photobucket account dies in about a month. I figure what better way to celebrate being able to use free photo hosting for the last decade than to recap some of the highlights from my account over the years? I’m sure this will hit the bandwidth quota real quick so I can’t guarantee how long the pics will stay…
Most of these shots are from the Willoughby Line. This layout is my third large layout, a triple deck monster in a 13’ X 22’ room. I have been building this layout since 2004. The photos shown in this thread are all from my Photobucket account and have appeared somewhere in a forum on the web. There are lots of scenes on the layout that are not in these shots. Send me a PM if you want to see the current updates (PDF form).
Great great stuff Guy. Spent quite a while enjoying going through it. I was going to spend the day in the trainroom today anyway and your work just gave me a little extra push.
That Groveland trucks-in-a-field is a shot I REALLY like. Not that I don’t like the others. Which I do. The pictures of the guys hoisting a rail triggers “John Allen” instantly.
I’m a bit stymied by scenery right now, and these pictures get me more “in the mood”.
Sure wouldn’t mind others showing up on a different platform, someday.
Love the pictures! All the names on your layout sound familiar, you must model the San Joaquin Valley. I would guess Arvin is at the lower end, but no mention of Beautiful Bakersfield. [:(]
I wouldn’t mention Bakersfield either. [:D]
Really great looking layout!!! Nice web site too.
Mel
Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951
A lot of people think that, because, well, hey, most of us are guys, and it looks exactly like that. However, if you look up the entemology of the part of the word that’s the same as used for part of a woman’s anatomy, espciecially in other contexts like that certain kind of trap, you’ll find that the root behind it is a reference to someone who is a fool, long before the varient with the ie on the end became a reference for female anatomy.
The use of the ie on the end has become rather engrained, but I think the proper spelling would be ‘fooby’ since in this use it’s not related to female anatomy.
Ulrich - Yes I still have it. I would never sell it. I ran this loco as a kid in the 1960’s on a layout that folded down from the wall and rested over my bed…Sometimes I would sleep under the layout to avoid putting it all away…
Mel - The lower deck is the San Joaquin Valley in western Ca and the upper deck is the Sierras. On the bottom deck I have rolling stock from the SP, WP, Tidewater Southern and Modesto & Empire Traction Company. On the top deck I have rolling stock from the Sierra, Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite Valley and Westside railroads. Everything else that doesn’t fit goes under the Willoughby Line freelance railroad name. Arvin is represented in name only - meant to be a generic HWY 99 town. I do model Modesto (ninth street) so I got close to the Bakersfield vibe…
Dean – I meant foobie as a locomotive that is lettered for a prototype railroad that either didn’t have the type of loco on the roster or didn’t have the road number on the roster (or both) – an intentional fake.
Thanks for sharing! I love the bottom two pics especially. By the way if you need to host photos, check out www.imgur.com for hosting photos, it’s what I use mostly.
Funny thing about railroad rosters, many times they have been shown to be incorrect. This was do mainly after new (to the aquiring company) stuff was received but was sold later and never intigreated into the line but at times may have been used. Don’t know if this can happen much in new times but in old it happened more than one would think.
Thank you for a very nice tour of the layout, and I’m glad it’s not gone! The trucks sitting rather randomly in the grass was my favorite picture also. I love the late summer look of yellowed out tall grass in real life too, more than green grass. Dan
