For those of you living in Southern California, the Model Railroads Of Southern California group on Yahoo has organized its twentieth layout tour for Saturday, June 26. This will be a free self-guided tour of ten layouts at nine sites in the north and central Orange County areas.
There are two O scale narrow gauge layouts on this tour:
(1) Dennis Ivison – Called the "Never Come, Never Go", by the locals, the NCNGRR began operations 1876 to provide rail service from Nevada City to Colfax, where the 22 ½ mile route interchanged with the Central Pacific. At the outbreak of World War II the U.S. government forced the closure of the gold mines and, with its major customers gone, the railroad was scrapped in 1942.
Dennis always loved steam engines and narrow gauge trains, so after 35 years in N-scale he tore down the SP of Arizona and moved into O-scale. The new narrow gauge layout is in the same 20'x 28' train room. The layout is set in the fall of the 1910 to 1912 time period.
The bench work is built almost entirely out of blue foam, and the hills out of white beaded Styrofoam. Control is DCC with the MRC Prodigy Advanced Wireless system, and Soundtraxx Tsunami sound decoders. The layout is lighted for either daytime, or night time operations; with corresponding sound tracks provided by “Fantasonics Engineering” and localized sounds by “Innovated Train Technology” modules. Scenery is in the early stages.
The three turntables are Walthers HO models that he will rebuild into O-scale, while the track and turnouts are Micro Engineering code 83. The locomotives are Bachmann and have all been kitbashed, weathered, or personalized, while the rolling stock is still (temporarily) out-of-the-box. The layout is currently populated with several MTH Rail King buildings that will eventually be extensively “kitbashed, weathered, or personalized”, with the remainder of the structures to be scratch built.
Dennis Ivison (On30) 10:00 to 4:00 9962 Lenore Drive, Garden Grove
(2) Randy Scott – This O-scale, 3-foot gauge layout depicts the high desert country of New Mexico. The around-the-walls-of-the-garage track plan includes a small yard area with engine facilities, a town and station scene, a stamp mill, desert arroyo, and staging yard. All the locos are controlled with DCC and feature sound decoders by Soundtrax. Scenery is about fifty percent complete.
Randy Scott (On3) 10:00 to 4:00 7908 E. Horseshoe Trail, Orange All guests must enter at the Chapman Ave entrance, just west of Newport Ave. (Note: If you use your navigation system, it will lead you to the wrong entrance!) There is a call box on the left. Scroll through the directory until you see "Scott, R." and then push CALL. Randy will buzz you in. Do not park one the side of the street label "Fire Lane."
Here are the other layouts, addresses and schedules:
Harold Benash (HO) 1:00 to 4:00 1876 Las Lanas Lane, Fullerton
Todd & Linda Brody (G) 12:00 to 5:00 10232 Overhill Drive, Santa Ana
William Enright (G) 10:00 to 4:00 1036 N. Glenhaven Ave., Fullerton
Fred Kingdon (HO & O) 10:00 to 2:00 1608 Beechwood Ave., Fullerton
Jim Lancaster (HO) 1:00 to 5:00 14241 Galy Street, Tustin
Dave Sheegog (G) 2:00 to 4:00 968 S. Ladan Lane, Anaheim
Dan Webb (HO) 11:00 to 4:00 18532 Newton Avenue, Santa Ana
Layouts maps and a tour area map are available only in the Files Section on the group’s website. You must log-in to access the maps. Maps will not be e-mailed. Be sure to check the group website the day before the tour to see if any changes to the schedule or layout lineup have occurred.
Persons taking this tour assume all risks and liability for their personal safety. Although I am the Moderator of this group, I am not responsible for personal loss or injury to those taking this tour.
If you cannot make this tour, more tours are being planned, including a tour of San Luis Obispo area layouts in October in conjunction with the Central Coast Railway Festival.
I can assure you that Bob does a superb job of setting these tours up. I enjoyed working with him and the other modelers in our area to pull it off. I participated by opening my layout and enjoyed the comaraderie with Bob and the new friends I made.
Nicely done, Bob.
Let's do it again.
Posted by RickH (Member # 22082) on :
I just noticed I'm a Jr. Member. At my age that's not an insult. Nice to be young once again...grin!