The Horse Shoe curve, and steeper grade is North of Dunsmuir. Think the "next town" would be Shasta, which is about 1K feet higher in elevation. Bill
--- On Sun, 10/30/11, JGG KahnSr <[email protected]> wrote: From: JGG KahnSr <[email protected]> Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Dunsmuir---Was Lionel U33C To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, October 30, 2011, 12:18 PM As I recall, Mainline Modeler had an extended series on the Dunsmuir SP facility for more than a year early on. Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > 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/
