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Prolific poster 1,037 posts dfandrews Prolific poster 1,037 posts
dfandrews
Oct. 14, 2009
Coinciding with the first rain of the season (we’re up to 1¼ inches as of mid-morning), I’m home with the flu, so I’ve got time to sit and type.
Here’s the latest version of the layout for the bedroom (whenever it becomes available). It is a highly free-lanced version of Ventura County (California) railroad service, with the central theme being that local businessmen preempted the Southern Pacific’s construction through Ventura County, so as to provide an outlet for the budding agricultural and oil development in the area, to the outside world. 
Operationally, the mainline loop around the room is just to run through trains (up to three), with a lot of imagineering involved regarding where they’re coming from and going to. Basically, it’s Southern Pacific to the north and the south. The regional railroad (The Rincon Railway) connects with the SP at Rincon, on the California coast at the Ventura/Santa Barbara County line. SP ducks inland at that point (and becomes the line from the south running to Somis). I’ve made little attempt to get the orientation of everything correct. E.G. Traffic flow north and south, or east and west for SP, doesn’t correspond to which side of tracks the coast is on. It fits my room, and where I need narrow benchwork. 
Rincon Rwy picks up at two interchange tracks at Rincon. Its main yard is at Springville, where two tracks serve a small refinery on the face of a hill. A couple of existing local small refineries will serve as the prototype (I’ll post photos when I figure out how to get the photos taken, without generating an in-depth interview in a small room, by Homeland Security personnel). The rest of Rincon’s services consist of providing iced reefers at the various packing house tracks, both in Springville, and at Hueneme. I have plans for a PFE icing platform, and am collecting photos and other information about size and configurations of packing houses. I’d love to get plans or photos of one of the buildings with a bow-string truss roof: it would be a fun model to build (scratchbuild, that is!). 
There will be a lot of traffic between the PFE icing platforms and the various packers. I foresee two switch jobs, one just at Springville, and one for the run to Hueneme. Fiddling/staging occurs at the mainline main and siding at Hueneme, right over the workbench (and maybe also at the Seacliff siding).
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Don - CEO, MOW super.

Rincon Pacific Railroad, 1960.  - Admin.offices in Ventura County

HO scale std. gauge - interchanges with SP; serves the regional agriculture and oil industries

DCC-NCE, Rasp PI 3 connected to CMRI, JMRI -  ABS searchlight signals
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