read, it’s nice to have friends and family. “Hobby funds” were eventually se-
cured and we began the task of creat- ing a suitable home for the Morada Belt Railway. Following the rewiring of the building, Shirley’s cousin, Larry Lopes, installed a new door, insulation and sheetrock, but not before the en- tire load of wallboard I had just pur- chased slid
off the bed of Shirley’s
Chevy Silverado and onto the road while climbing the grade over nearby Highway 99. Amazingly, not one piece cracked. Fortunately, it was early on a Sunday morning and traffic was light. A good Samaritan on his way to church stopped to assist and soon I was home with the material, ready for a good chastising by my wife for not tying down the load with the rope she had supplied. That’s what happens when you marry a country girl. You get no sympathy for being lazy!
EMD E9 No. 6051, adorned in the SP’s Daylightscheme, leads a short passenger train across the Lake Davis bridge (page 40). The E9 belongs to fellow UP engineer Jim Poulsen. The J.R. Larsen quarry (above) provides the railroad with a fair amount of traffic and can keep a switch crew busy for a while. No. 5206, a Baldwin DRS-6-6-1500 is pictured pulling a cut of cars from the loader. The Baldwin switcher and crummy wait in the clear (below) as the hot- shot Advance Starpacerroars past behind a pair of F3’s. Jerry Larsen built the quarry scene using a modified Walthers Glacier Gravel kit as well as scratchbuilt conveyors.
Sheetrock, insulation, new lights, elec- trical outlets, new doors, a new roof, carpet, and central heat and air had to be purchased and installed before I could even think about starting on benchwork. I might as well have been
building the Penn Central, as I would probably be broke before any trains turned a wheel! “How about some bail- out money, Mr. President and Con- gress, so we can start hauling inter- state commerce?” As you will soon
After Shirley and I had painted the interior of the room, her brother, Larry Gonsalves, installed four ceiling speak- ers and wired them into the existing stereo system. Being a fan of all things music, I welcomed his tireless contri- bution of labor and knowledge of good high fidelity components.
Making the trackplan fit With the installation of the new roof, central heat and air, and carpeting, it was time for the fun to begin. My de- sire was to design and build an opera- tions-based layout to fit within the 400 square feet I had available. An exten-
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