My Layout in Mid-April 2008

I originally posted these pictures on my old website on May 21, 2008.

I took these pictures of my HO-scale model railroad on April 11, 2008. This group of pictures features a pair of Athearn GP60s in Southern Railway paint. (In real life only one GP59 locomotive was painted this way.) The lead GP60 is mine; the trailing unit is one I was hired to assemble. I just had to see how they looked together. Also pictured with my Model Die Casting 2-Truck Shay are some old Model Die Casting log cars I think bought in Rickreall on May 5, 2007, and had finally added log bunks to and painted as well as a Bachmann bobber caboose I think I bought at the SP&S swap meet in Portland on January 19, 2008. 

The captions for these pictures were written as if my layout were a real railroad in Oregon called the Logan & San Miguel Railroad (or L&SM for short), and as if these pictures were historical photos posted on the company’s website.

Here are a pair of Southern Railway GP59s with a freight train at Upper Belknap, led by #4610.

Here is another view of the pair of Southern Railway GP59s at Upper Belknap with a freight train.

Weyerhaeuser Timber Company’s 2-Truck Shay #3 is in the Logan Yard with a trio of empty log cars and a red bobber caboose.

Here is a closer look at Weyerhaeuser Timber Company’s 2-Truck Shay #3 in the Logan Yard.

Here is another look at Weyerhaeuser Timber Company’s 2-Truck Shay #3 in the Logan Yard.

Here is another view of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company’s 2-Truck Shay #3 is in the Logan Yard with the three empty log cars and bobber caboose.

Here is a closer look at the bobber caboose.

Here is a closer look at the three empty log cars.

Here is another view of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company’s 2-Truck Shay #3 is in the Logan Yard with the three empty log cars and bobber caboose.

Here is a closer look at one of the three log cars.