One Horse Town

[vsmith]

Might I make a suggestion?

If you use On30, you can still use the HO track but you can up the scale to O and use B'mann's cool little Porter 0-4-0's and 0-4-2's or the cool little gas/mechanical engine. They also have some neat ore cars and some cool passenger cars. You can up the level of detail at that scale if thats your thing.

If you want to stay at HO then I suggest Woodland Scenics really cool series of white metal buildings most are under 2 inches square and are well detailed and look really good in a "small town" setting.

[Jetrock]

The problem is that Porter 0-4-0's and 0-4-2's were typically NOT used for trips out into the kind of country he wants to model(it sounds like a "high desert" environment is what John Busby is shooting for, rather than northwestern or far-west or western plains type terrain.) Heck, they normally weren't used for things like passenger runs at all--they were mostly industrial locomotives, for use on logging lines, industrial facilities, dockyards, etcetra. It also means that the size of his buildings will double, eating up quite a bit of that teeny 4x6 foot space.

[FJ and G]

I wonder if anyone has ever tried modeling a one-horse trolley. Would be a challenge to get the horse's legs moving anatomically correctly.

dave vergun

[leighant]

The part I want to show you in this picture is rather blurry.

http:/www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/aab.jpg

In the foreground left is a tiny station, model of an actual prototype station on the Santa Fe at Oil City Junction, California. Depot was about 12 x 15 feet. Excuse me, I should say IS instead of "was". To my knowledge, the station building still exists at the orange Empire railroad museum in Perris, California.

Scale drawings of the station were printed in Santa Fe Modeler, July-August 1980 p.18
and reprinted in Santa Fe Modeler, September-October 1986 p.15

Kenneth L. Anthony, Santa Vaca & Santa Fe Rwy.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Jetrock

The problem is that Porter 0-4-0's and 0-4-2's were typically NOT used for trips out into the kind of country he wants to model(it sounds like a "high desert" environment is what John Busby is shooting for, rather than northwestern or far-west or western plains type terrain.) Heck, they normally weren't used for things like passenger runs at all--they were mostly industrial locomotives, for use on logging lines, industrial facilities, dockyards, etcetra. It also means that the size of his buildings will double, eating up quite a bit of that teeny 4x6 foot space.

Actually, on quite a few narrow guage lines the little porters were used for everything from frieght to passenger runs, and they quite often did run out into the landscape, the Arizona Copper Company line was a good example of a 20 inch gauge using 0-4-0 and 0-4-4 Portersrunning out in the open desert, it was featured in the last issue of Finescale Railroader. the Finger Lakes RR in Minnesota used 0-4-0 Porters to haul passenger cars between two ferry terminals and resorts. There are many examples out there.

At 4 x 6 an On30 would be good for an detail-packed "one horse town" layout, I guess it depends on what your ultimate goal is...if its the town itself, then On30 would allow for superdetailing the buildings and interiors, If its the town as object in the vast landscape sort of idea, then HO would be better. I guess I'm just not quite picturing John's overall vision yet.

If its HO John check out those Woodland Scenics buildings. I used several on my old micro 12" x 24" HOn30 layout before the Northridge Quake did a major remodeling of it. BTW it was called the Furnace Creek, Ketchum, & Union Pacific or the FCK UP!

[vsmith]

Hoorah!

Carl Arendt's micro layouts website is alive again! its new address is:

http://carendt.us

[Anonymous]

Hi
just a bit of an update and a question
rolling stock now consists of 7 freight cars including 2 cabooses
and 2 passanger cars.
1 2-4-0 locomotive
all old timers does any one know of a manufacturer of a box cab diesle locomotive..
A mock up of the saloon has been made.
Layout planning propper has started I want to get the most I can out of a 6' x 4' space I can any sugestions in that regard would be helpfull.
regards John

[lupo]

Hi John,

MDC does one, several roads,RTR or kit, powered and unpowered also as track cleaner,
it is in the Walthers catalogue;







Grandt Line Products Inc also has a model, no pics available

hope it helps

[jrbarney]

John,
The Grandt Line HO loco is pictured at their Web site. Here's the link:
http://www.grandtline.com/model_railroad/rolling_stock_and_locos.htm
Good luck.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543