Anyone model the UP in the NevadaUtah/California desert? Anyone model Las Vegas? Any pictures or websites? Thanks - Nevin
See if you can find pictures of ‘Caliente’, or in summer you should be able to drive it (floods). The old UP hotel there is worth the trip, as is the Rainbow Canyon scenery.
There were pictures of it in a book about the San Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake RR, which became the UP.
S.B. AMTRAK unfortunately goes through there at night. Check the N.B. Desert Wind out of Vegas. Renting a car out of Vegas would be even more rewarding, as would ZION, BRYCE, and Hoover Dam.
There’s always Pelle Soeborg!
The reason I ask is because I was born and raised in Las Vegas a long time ago. My parents would put me on the COLA to Evanston, Wyoming each summer to visit my grandparents. That was when the LV depot was “the first air conditioned streamlined depot in the West.” I always thought it would make a great model railroad but you seldom see it compared to Cajon or Wyoming. - Nevin
Nevin,
The was a nice article on the UP in southern Nevada back in the May 1993 issue of Pacific Railnews. The article was titled “Meadow Valley Memories” and the author was Gordon Glattenberg.
Dan
I have been to the UPRR in Vegas. Look up Wyoming Ave. There is a Shell gas station looking east there are commerical buildings. Looking SW is the Stratosphere. Looking wast are signals & here it is double track line with crossing gates.
I have paced UPRR trains east of Yermo on Daggett/Yermo road & all there is is scrub sand & dunes & 1-15 is north of th tracks. [:o)]
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