along with my favorite first generation diesels in both “Black Widow” and Day- light paint schemes. As a native Cali- fornian who grew up in the San Fran- cisco Bay Area, I remember fondly the many road trips my folks made be- tween the Bay Area and Reno, Nevada, to visit friends when I spent most of the traveling hours hoping to catch sight of a cab forward hard at work.
Modeling in a minority scale is al-
ways a challenge, but one that I had been living with since my early days in Sn3 when we could count and name most every fellow Sn3 modeler in the country. As a long-time member of both the Bay Area S Scalers and the Bristol S Gauge Club (while living in northern California and Boston), I had already begun to model some S standard gauge
The sound of EMD’s 567 engines reverberate off the rock wall as an SD7 and GP9 emerge from the tunnel at Summit with an eastbound freight (left). Note the large barrel headlights on the engines. The spark arrestors on the 5327 are from its service on SP subsidiary North- western Pacific. EMD E7 6004 makes a rare appearance on the Mountain Division (above). The E7 lacks dynamic brakes, so it is paired with E8 No. 6018 on the local Sacramento to Reno passenger run. Note the special SP-added air deflectors. The Truckee hostler eases AC- 12 No. 4294 onto the turntable while a trio of Alco PA’s heads the Shasta Daylightpast on the mainline (below). Alco S-2 switchers, a GS-4 and a C-9 2-8-0 occupy the busy Truckee yard.
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