WP in N scale

[Anonymous]

I'd like to share info and just chat in general with others interested in the Western Pacific and or N scale. I'm building a small freelanced layout based on the Tidewater Southern in the California Central Valley.
John

[Anonymous]

I have always liked the WP. Atlas made a GP40-2 and GP7 in N scale. Walters makes some rollin stock and a bay window caboose too.

[Anonymous]

I have an Atlas GP7 #710 and a Walthers bay window myself. I also snatched up one of MicroTrain's new silver and orange wood caboose(s). I have an old Con-Cor bay window in WP brown. I have a couple of Intermountain WP covered hoppers, too.
I'd like to build a model of the California Zephyr someday, but I don't really have the room for it yet.

[Anonymous]

I'm a long-time N-scaler who models not the WP but rather the WP&P... which is my fictional short line coal hauler in West Virginia! That isn't to say that I don't love the American west (if I could live anywhere it would likely be in Albuquerque). I'm in the process of taking my modelling to the next level, taking on such challenges as endeavoring to custom design and scratchbuild every structure on my pike, relaying all my track with Micro-engineering code 55, etc. One project in particular which has me stymied is my desire to place good-running Alco RSD-15's into service as my primary power; I have a handful of the old clunkers made by AHM, but have failed to find a simple repowering solution. I read once about a DM&IR modeller who used Trix U-28's, and have tried that, but the wheelbase is wrong, frustratingly so. I'm rambling, I know...

[Anonymous]

I'm actually bulding a line that connects with the WP somewhere near Stockton, Ca. I call it the San Joaquin Valley. That allows me to do things that the WP never did...like own Alco Pa's. As of right now, I don't have a whole lot of room, so I'm starting small, with plans to expand when I get more space. I'm going to try my hand at either scratchbuilding or kitbashing some structures that match the ones out where my line runs.
I had a pair of old AHM RSD15's and I know how they are! Didn't Atlas or kato make RSC1 or something that might match the wheelbase of an RSD15?

[Anonymous]

Years ago, Model Railroader did a series of building modules based on the Western Pacific in Z scale. You might want to check it out. Very interesting articles. I believe it was the mid to early eighties.

Jonathon