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2-12-04: New photos
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My name is Andy Thomas and I am currently constructing an HO layout in what used to be the garage of our home (it's still our home, it's just that the cars sleep outside now). My wife, Pam graciously offered the garage to the railroad after asking that we build a 6' X 12' room out of part of it for a small office. So now we've got a space about 17' X 21' to work with! |
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The layout is based on a railroad that I grew up next to in Placerville, California. The Camino, Placerville and Lake Tahoe Railroad was a short line that connected the Michigan-California Lumber Company's mill in Camino with the Southern Pacific's Placerville Branch in Placerville, about 8 railroad miles away. |
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I intend to model the line from Placerville up to the mill, and operate it with a single GE 44-tonner, just like the prototype did, but I'll use my imagination to stretch the railroad all the way past Lake Tahoe (why have it in your name if you're not going to go there?), through the Nevada desert to interchange with the U.P. near Portola, CA. I'll be modeling from the Placerville yard to Camino, with staging yards east of Camino (representing Reno and points east) and west of Placerville (representing Roseville and points west). There will also be a connection with my son's railroad, the Sacramento, Big Trees and Western, and we'll model some of it's operations in Sacramento. |
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