Model Railroading > Walter Schedler's Shasta Route

Spent Yesterday helping run Dunsmuir yard at Walt's operating session. Had a chance to Rail fan between engine and switch moves. Here are some photos
1)TOF SP 6100 passes Dunsmuir depot and roundhouse
2) South side of the Cab forward engine house with plenty going on
3) The new SD-9's are showing up in the late 50's sealing steams fate
 

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First time I have heard of this modeler. Looks very nice and especially that F3 diesel with all the correct details.

3) Herder shanty with a busy Herder waving his hand signals
4 and 5) Sims bridge over the Sacramento. The fish were much larger back in the late 50's



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/01/16 16:03 by dmaffei.

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Looks like terrific shots on a terrific layout.  The Espee piggyback caboose is not one we see very often on T.O.

Were the silver TOFC cabooses restricted to SF - LA service?

If I recall correctly, SP got approval from the Cal PUC for TOFC service before it got interstate approval, so SP's TOFC service started in the SF - LA corridor before it was introduced in any interstate corridors. Did the silver cabooses trail any interstate TOFC trains? Or were they gone by then?

Best regards and thanks in advance,

Rob L.

rob_l Wrote:
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> Were the silver TOFC cabooses restricted to SF -
> LA service?
>
> If I recall correctly, SP got approval from the
> Cal PUC for TOFC service before it got interstate
> approval, so SP's TOFC service started in the SF -
> LA corridor before it was introduced in any
> interstate corridors. Did the silver cabooses
> trail any interstate TOFC trains? Or were they
> gone by then?
>
> Best regards and thanks in advance,
>
> Rob L

I've only seen them on the Coast Pigs

Great trackwork/ballasting!

Tom Y

Those are really good photos of what appears to be a top notch layout.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/01/16 16:50 by tomstp.

The date is 12-1959 and here is a shot of the caboose' used on the OABRT...

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What scale is this layout?

That's a big fish.

HO Scale, 2nd floor of a two story house.  Dispatcher and Crew Caller are downstairs, about two dozen guys upstairs.  Gerber, Calif to Black Butte on the Espee in 1955.  A four level railroad, but no helix.  Continuous grades like the prototype. 

I have been to perhaps a dozen Op Sessions there over the past few years.  While Dave was working North Yard, I was working South Yard. 

Dave's fine photos present just a fraction of the many prototypical scenes Walt has included in his railroad. 

Larry

Looks like a SUPER nice layout.  Thanks for sharing your great photos Dave!  I'm always amazed at what impressive layouts (and what big fish!) are out there that aren't widely known.

Joe Atkinson
Council Bluffs, IA
www.iaisrailfans.org/../Sub4WestEnd

Dave as I was looking at your photos I felt like I was there in Dunsmuir and then I realized I was.

Great layout photos.  I'm from NY but would love to visit the layout sometime if I ever get west.  I also enjoy watching the video camera at Dunsmuir and listening to those big locomotives load up for a departure and echo off the hills.  Enjoy the layout and the live action at Dunsmuir.

From a old Erie RR fan

Jack

 

Walter really has the looks and feeling of the place down pat - even to the red cinders from Kegg Pit underlying the ballast. I've always worshipped his eye, and his ability to compress things without forsaking that "feel".

EO

I enjoy visitors and those who want to help or operate on the Colusa Shasta Div of the SP.  E-mail me, if you would like to visit.  And then there is my store too.  
Walt Schedler
Colus CA
Dunsmuir 1955

photobob Wrote:
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> Dave as I was looking at your photos I felt like I
> was there in Dunsmuir and then I realized I was.

Hahahaha...
Thanks for posting the photos Dave. Walt's layout is really looking good. Lots of progress since I first visited years ago.

Ryan Wilkerson
Fair Oaks, CA

Kudo's Walt and thanks Dave for post the photo's.  Thats a very scenically attractive route and I've always been a fan of the SP since moving there with my family as a kid back in 1967 and lived there into my colleg years.  Unfortunately I live in Virginia which is just to far.

Cheers, Jim Fitch

icancmp193 Wrote:

> Great trackwork/ballasting.

No, it's horrible ballasting.  It doesn't look like the real Dunsmuir at all, particularly the large ballast rocks in the model engine terminal area.

(by the way, I first visited Dunsmuir in 1962.  In 1965 and 1966, I took many photos around the yard)



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/03/16 13:16 by johnsweetser.