Monday, June 4, 2012

Needles Division Santa Fe Railroad

Santa Fe C44-9W "Double Stack" Train

Welcome to my first blog for the Needles Division of the Santa Fe RR in  N Scale.  My railroad has been "finished" for the most part since 2001,  You can find a five page article in Sept 2002 Model Railroader Magazine if you would like to familiar yourselves with my railroad.  I know modelers never throw out magazines. 

I model two different time periods.  It might be June 30, 1954, or may end up being June 30, 1981.  In will in time explain why  chose those two time periods.  I also have some Super Fleet locos which are currently leading double stacks on the layout.  This summer on my layout, I have a potpourri of different Santa Fe prototypes over four decades which make for some interesting videos.

Weathered Containers, 40 and 45 foot

Slightly Weathered

Passing through Needles California


Painted containers are much easier to weather

A video of this train can be found can be found on You Tube at:

3 comments:

  1. I am with the London Bridge Model Railroaders and we are also building the Needles subdivision. Where did you get the model of El Garces?????? Can't find one anywhere. You can reach me at jrswt@ctaz.com Thanks.

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  2. HI. I contacted you some time ago and we seem to have lost touch. I was asking how you built the El Garces model. Looks terrific. If you want to see what we are up to look up London Bridge Model Railroaders on Facebook. I would still like to try and build a model of El Garces for our layout but cannot find any kits or plans. Thanks..Jim jrswt@ctaz.com

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