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Category Archives: California Dreaming in Proto:48

Fresno to Friant (Sept 2025)

Running trains on PIerre’s SP Clovis branch

Posted byTrevorSeptember 21, 2025Posted inCalifornia Dreaming in Proto:48, Eat Drink and be Merry, Layout Design, Layouts by others, Operations, Where to find me

The story of the removable staging

Read the details in the February, 2025 RMC

Posted byTrevorFebruary 15, 2025Posted inAchievable Layouts, Benchwork, California Dreaming in Proto:48, GWR Bydemill (Highworth), Layouts I have designed or built, Proto:48 equipment, Publications, Railroad Model Craftsman

That’s it for the SP in P:48

It turns out California is not the dream I wanted.

Posted byTrevorJune 30, 2024August 13, 2024Posted inCalifornia Dreaming in Proto:48, Layouts I have designed or built, Oops!, SP Hacienda Branch in P:48

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Eating the Proto:48 elephant.

Posted byTrevorAugust 30, 2023August 30, 2023Posted inCalifornia Dreaming in Proto:48, Track and Turnouts

SP: 1st rail spiked

Not “fun”, but “satisfying”

Posted byTrevorJuly 20, 2023Posted inCalifornia Dreaming in Proto:48, Layouts I have designed or built, SP Hacienda Branch in P:48, Track and Turnouts

SP Hacienda: Ready for Rail

When “distressing” is a good thing

Posted byTrevorJuly 20, 2023Posted inCalifornia Dreaming in Proto:48, Layouts I have designed or built, SP Hacienda Branch in P:48, Track and Turnouts

SP: Oil and Water

Bling for the engine service area

Posted byTrevorJuly 11, 2023July 11, 2023Posted inCalifornia Dreaming in Proto:48, Scenery, The Little Details

Ties for Hacienda

Cut, glue, repeat – following SP prototype practice

Posted byTrevorJuly 10, 2023July 11, 2023Posted inCalifornia Dreaming in Proto:48, Track and Turnouts

Roadbed in Hacienda

Ready for ties, ballast, and rail

Posted byTrevorJune 27, 2023July 11, 2023Posted inCalifornia Dreaming in Proto:48, Layouts I have designed or built, SP Hacienda Branch in P:48, Track and Turnouts

Planning proto track, SP-style

I have most of what I need…

Posted byTrevorJune 22, 2023July 11, 2023Posted inCalifornia Dreaming in Proto:48, Layouts I have designed or built, Philosophy, SP Hacienda Branch in P:48, Track and Turnouts

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