I was browsing the internet a few months ago and I came across a Southern Pacific railroad club layout, with a chance there were also santa fe or denver Rio Grande locomotives as well.I was amazed of how the layout looked, but I forgot to bookmark the club's website.
What I do remember is they have a few photos with the background/sky photoshopped, one picture with a blurring effect of a fast train, a reference to the "Black widow" design, and a photo of a woman in a car behind a structure with a few locomotive cabs on the ground.
The only picture i can find of the layout is a SP GS sitting next to a Santa Fe steam locomotive with a caption and when i click on the link there's nothing.
"This N scale layout was started in early 95 and is home to both the Southern Pacific & Santa Fe railroad's. The time period here is the late 40's so steam power is in full control with SP's "Daylight" & "Lark" trains doubleheading behind GS-4 & MT-5 steam power. Also making daily stops at the Santa Mesa depot behind Warbonnet F units & PA's are the ATSF's "Grand Canyon" & "Chief." A Tiger Striped Alco RSD-5 handles the local switching and picks up the freshly loaded reefers at the Sunkist packing house. Repair work to Black Widow GP-9's #5780 & #240 (T.N.O.) are now complete and these units are back in mainline freight service. The layout is operated by a Digitrax Big Boy system and by using DCC my GS-4 has onboard sound from a Throttle Up Soundtrax decoder. The Santa Mesa local operates on a automatic point to point system under DC power.
Submitted by Bob Russell Click here to visit Bob's website."
Does anyone know anything about this layout or have the link?
Mr. LMD, Owner, founder
The Central Chicago & Illinois Railroad
I can't find an active link to the site itself and one may no longer exist. "The Southern Pacific RR Layouts List" site does still have some info and 8 videos on the Orange Belt. Click on “pictures” under Orange Belt Lines.
http://sp-layouts.blogspot.com/search?q=Bob+Russell&max-results=20&by-date=true
Google "Belmont Shores model railroad club" located 20 minutes from me, from your discription it sure sound like them.
Dave