Two favorite models preserved during the move were the largely scratchbuilt Davies Warehouse with its curving wall (above) and the Star Warehouse, which was located just across the street. The Corner Café was in the former town of Arroyo but was relo- cated downtown, along with the hardware store. An SW1 push-
1950’s–they were much closer together than they are today. You could drive out of town and be in the country in minutes. Now it takes a couple of hours. To fit everything on the new layout, I had to make some compromises and con- cessions. The scratchbuilt Dayton Ave. Tower (RMC, May, 1992) sits rather for- lornly at the back edge of the layout, the track leading off into the backdrop when it should be entering Taylor yard, the SP’s largest at the time. That’s a shame since it’s probably the best model I ever built and certainly the hardest. Though Taylor yard was out of the question on the new layout, I did model a tiny part of the long-gone Cornfield yard in downtown L.A. off Alameda St. It includes the freight houses of River Station, from where the famous Overnight Merchandise
trains with
their black boxcars departed, and where the colorful SP piggyback oper-
RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN
es a temporary caboose (below) over a kitbashed though-girder bridge that spans the arroyo which divides the layout into urban and rural sections. Dayton Avenue tower is in the background, supposedly leading to famed Taylor Yard. In reality, though, the scene actually recedes into the backdrop.
ation was based, both of which I man- aged to squeeze into the new, highly condensed yard (see sidebar on how I
had to chop models and tracks). It was important to include these two parts of the yard since I had some handsome
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