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An experiment in fine scale, prototype model railroading.

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This blog follows the research, planning and creation of my new layout project: a depiction of the State Belt Railroad

of California (San Francisco Belt Line) operations on North Point Street in Proto:48 scale (finescale O).

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Hitting Pause

on March 07, 2024

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Simple Table Saw Tricks for Better Benchwork

on March 07, 2024

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A Sense of Scale

on March 07, 2024

Layout Design +0 LDSig

Layout Design LDSig

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Southern Pacific USRA Gondola Build Pt. 2

on March 29, 2021

Gene Deimling gondola Intermountain Southern Pacific + USRA

Gene Deimling gondola Intermountain Southern Pacific USRA

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The Cannery & Haslett Warehouse

on November 26, 2020

Cannery Ghirardelli Haslett Layout Design LDE + Tony Koester

Cannery Ghirardelli Haslett Layout Design LDE Tony Koester

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Southern Pacific USRA Gondola Build Pt. 1

on October 19, 2020

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Developing a Realistic Freight Car Roster Pt. 1

on June 03, 2020

freight car +0 roster

freight car roster

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Rock-solid Benchwork With Just 2 Tools

on May 09, 2020

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A Layout Design for North Point Street

on January 14, 2020

Cannery Ghirardelli Layout Design Simmons +0 track plan

Cannery Ghirardelli Layout Design Simmons track plan

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More Than A Track Plan

on January 13, 2020

achievable layouts Byron Henderson Lance Mindheim Layout Design LDSig + track plan

achievable layouts Byron Henderson Lance Mindheim Layout Design LDSig track plan

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Converting a RTR car to Proto:48

on November 20, 2019

George Losse protocraft +0 right-o-way

George Losse protocraft right-o-way

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A Tour of North Point Street, Part 2: The Most Elusive Street in SF?

on April 10, 2019

Cable Car Cannery Davis Hardwood Don Marenzi Haslett North Beach Powell + Simmons

Cable Car Cannery Davis Hardwood Don Marenzi Haslett North Beach Powell Simmons

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Inspiration

Byron Henderson's Design Theories
Jack Burgess' Yosemite Valley
Lance Mindheim's Layout Designs
Layout Design SIG
Mark Dance's Columbia & Western
Scott Calvert's Boundary Subdivision
Trevor Marshall's Achievable Layouts

Blogroll

A Model Meander P:48
Anthony Craig's Kettle Valley Model Railway
Bernard Kempinski's Aquia Line
Building the State Belt Railway
CP Rail Manitoba & Minnesota Subdivision
Elgin Car Shops
Eric Hansmann's Design, Build, Ops
Esquimalt & Nanaimo in 1988
Gene's P:48 Blog
George Losse's Reading in Proto:48
Guelph Spur in P:48
Hopedale and Barre RR in P:48
Lester Breuer's Minneapolis & Northland Railroad
Marty McGuirk's Central Vermont Railway
Matt Forsyth's P:48 D&H Penn Division
Modeling Steam Era Freight Cars
Proto87.org
Rene Gourley's Pembroke:87
Ryley Trigg's Port of New York Railroad
Stephen Gardiner's 1:87 Liberty Village
Ted Culotta's Prototype Railroad Topics
Tom Johnson's Logansport and Indiana Northern
Tony Thompson's Modeling the SP
Trevor Marshall's Port Rowan in 1:64

Prototype and P:48 Resources

California Historical Society
National Model Railroad Association
O Scale Resource
O Scale Trains Magazine
OldSF.com Historic Photo Index
Proto 48 Modeller
Protocraft (proto:48 supplier)
Right-O-Way O scale track components
San Francisco Public Library
San Francisco Sanborn Maps
San Francisco Trains

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