I have enjoyed the Dunsmuir tangent very much. I have "known" about Dunsmuir and its railroad connection for decades... but because of this thread I did some Googling. Superb setting. It appears that it would be a WONDERFUL V-scale TOC19 railroading project. (TOC19 = Turn Of the 19th Century.) Were helpers operated out of Dunsmuir? If so: Was the helper grade NORTH of Dunsmuir? What town/location was at the top of the grade?
Andre Ming ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: S-Scale Yahoo Group Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:35 AM Subject: {S-Scale List} Dunsmuire---Was Lionel U33C In response to my posting about Dunsmuir Hardware, etc. Dave wrote, “That must have been the best place on earth for a kid to grow up, hanging out at the SP dunsmuir yard and swimming at mossbrea falls?” YES it was, although the river’s too cold, IMHO at Mossbrea; our family would usually go down to Delta, and later as a teen, I’d go to Shiloa. My layout plans are definitely influenced by my Dunsmuir childhood. IMHO, there is NOTHING like the sound of a steam whistle echoing off the canyon! Old-timers would tell me that they could tell when it was cold enough to snow by the change in the whistles’ pitch. Then there was the night I was startled by the gyra-light swooping up the canyon wall before I could here the diesel rumbling. UFO????? YOICKS!!! I am one of the fortunate ones, saw steam in the Canyon, Rode in the cab of the 25 and the 18 on the McCloud, rode the entire McCloud railroad in my speeder, rode the Daylights and watched the stars through the vista-dome roof, actually walked around inside the Dunsmuir Roundhouse (and can remember bits of it), and rode the Delta Queen steamboat. These are all things that you cannot do today! Now I’m depressed. . .. S’ David D PS, I’m threatening to write a book about growing up in Dunsmuir, as in many ways we were in a time warp there. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
