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Thanks, Jerry, I'll check for those issues. Soon as I can remember where I filed them.:oops: -- Paul

I must have somehow missed that issue, Jerry. Funny, but now that you mention it, I can't remember ever having seen a color photo of that layout. The truck and the hay bales and the underpass are undoubtedly the same ones, but the photo I was thinking of is definitely a black-and-white, and it...

Jerry -- I myself am closing in on that dangerous age, so I can relate. I know you're cleaning out some of your stuff (by all means, don't trash those old mags!!), but it would be great if you could locate some of those old articles. By the way, I noticed on that other thread a reference to...

Jerry -- No sweat about the spelling. What difference should a single 'n' make? (For the life of me, I couldn't have remembered Mr. Humann's first name until you brought it up.) He and his wife -- according to one account I've read -- spent something like 40 years building and improving that...

In the prototype photos, although they probably weren't the original equipment, those look to definitely be two-axle trucks.

Jerry -- I never saw it in person, no, but I do remember it from articles (and at least one memorable cover photo) in years-ago issues of Model Railroader. As I recall, his premier passenger train (modeled after the Daylight, naturally enough) was called the "Bluebonnet." Did you get to see it...

Remember that line well, Jerry. Made a number of trips back and forth on it between Portland and San Francisco when I was growing up, back in the glory days of the Shasta Daylight and Cascade. As to the 4449's Railfan trip, I remember her pulling into the station that night, just before...

Jerry -- I practically lived in Old Town during the Railfair that opened that museum! Had my kids trackside along Roseville Road the morning UP's Challenger and FEF rolled into town for the event. Chased the 4449 out of town at the end of the fair! Crazy week, as I recall. The scent of coal...

Bill, I know the feeling. As indicated by that post right after my initial one in this thread. - Paul

Gill's it was, Jerry! Then, in the 80s for a time it became The Whistle Stop (and if I recall correctly, there was an affiliation with The Original Whistle Stop in Pasadena). Nowadays, it's Bruce's. I was up there last September and it's moved from the end location to the center of that strip...

Disregard this post. Fingers have been doing the walking . . . in their sleep, again.

Bill -- One quick suggestion before you get into the actual signage: Check your spelling on the "FURNITURE" sign. - Paul

My wife has come to enjoy the hobby (she was always supportive of me in it), and lately has turned into a pretty fair structure builder. She really can't wait 'til it's time to get with the scenery, though! -- Paul

I missed out on the Sacramento Northern, unfortunately, arriving in Sacramento (from San Francisco) in 1970. By that time, the only Sac Northern power to be seen were geeps painted up in WP-styled "Perlman green" and orange. Interestingly enough, though, the former Sacramento Northern depot in...

Spent 17 years in Sacramento myself, back in the day, Jerry. At one point, I lived just east of the WP yards on Freeport Bl. Went to sleep most nights to the sound of boxcars being slammed into one another. Loved it! -- Paul

Welcome to the mix, Jerry! Haven't been to the Phoenix area in years (since long before Roy's took over the McCormick Park store), even though my dad's family was in Mesa and Chandler. (Most, if not all, of them long gone by now.) Always great to see another N-scaler. BTW, how does a Phoenix...

Nice work, Mike! I'm especially taken with your placement of those Woodland Scenics figures; you really impart a lot of character to the structure through them. (Even more than the prices on the walls, they tell me that tavern's the kind of place I'm at least 30 years beyond even thinking...

Credit where credit's due, my friend. You gave good advice. -- Paul

Mike -- Thanks again for that tutorial. You helped me sidestep a couple of potential troublespots in the Walthers instructions this weekend. Wish I'd paid a bit more attention to your treatment of the bearing, though; had to jury-rig my own approach as a result of not printing out your...

For some reason, this part of your original message just registered with me. Your . . . first . . . structure . . . now let me just make sure what you're saying here: That's first, f-i-r-s-t, as in numero uno, as in "gee, I've never done this before . . ." and so you decide to build a 15-stall...