The S scale Sierra Northern
unique system provides exceptionally strong yet lightweight standard-sized lengths that are easily combined and assembled using only a screwdriver. All of my benchwork was assembled and placed in position over two weekends of work. Half-inch thick plywood was then cut, fitted and screwed to the open-grid benchwork to serve as a layout base. Because of the summer’s humidity, I
The Sierra Nevada Lumber Co. leases much of its motive power during the summer cut- ting season. Casper, South Fork & Eastern No. 7, a 2-6-6-2 (above), heads a trainload of logs downgrade towards the mill at Truckee. Leased West Side Shay No. 14 (below) brings a work extra over bridge No. 1 as it heads upgrade for Camp 8 in the high Sierra.
chose to use traditional cork roadbed for all of my standard and narrow gauge trackage, as experience has shown there is less movement with cork than other roadbed materials. On my past layouts I had spent many months (or was it years?) hand-laying Sn3 track, but for this layout I chose to go 100 percent with commercially- available track products. The British company White Oak provided all of the S standard gauge turnouts, while P-B- L turnouts were used on the Sn3 nar- row gauge line. Tomalco code 100 flex track was used for the standard gauge and code 70 for the narrow gauge. Much of the scenery was constructed
using Woodland Scenics foam materials with their Hydrocal®
towels over the
foam base. I resorted to my old tried and true methods of using traditional Hy- drocal rock castings and hard shell scenery in the larger scenery areas of the layout. All of my previously scratch- built and custom-built trees were trans- ferred from the old Sn3 layout to quick- ly help replicate the feeling of the heavily-forested California high Sierra. In the past, I had always pho- tographed actual railroad locations for
The SNLCo. operates an extensive mill com- plex at Truckee. The main mill (below left) is a BTS model and features a fully detailed in- terior. Most of the lumber company’s motive power was acquired secondhand. SNL No. 10 (below) is a good example. A much-re- built former D&RGW K-27, it is shown back- ing up to the Camp 8 water tank.
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