Santa Fe in China Basin

[railnerd]

Here's a quick roll test in slow mo from last weekend.

http://vimeo.com/97458515

[M.C. Fujiwara]

Nice smooth action.
By the angle, must be super-low tide! 

[railnerd]

By the angle, must be super-low tide! 

Yup.  Wanted to make sure I could resolve the discrepancy in height between the pier and the float.

-Dave

[paggs]

Thanks for the reply> Is Joe interested in selling any of his laser kits?  I am looking for a prototype for my Rail/Marine project this summer. I will take your advise and get a copy of Bill's book.  I might lean toward the
SF Belt line railroad. I have been following this ATSF China Basin and it has been a great thread to read and inspire me to build a different rail/marine n scale project for myself.

[Spades]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidelevine/sets/72157618901503865/

The link above is a  Port of San Francisco Annual Report 1938 - 1940 from the BayArea_RailHistory yahoo group

Greg

[railnerd]

Nice pics of the State Belt.  Bill Kaufman's new book is also pretty neat (http://www.signaturepress.com/SB/SB.html)

[alcors110]

an excellent layout you have here.

[railnerd]

Finally got around to trying to correlate the blueprint scans with full-scale internet map data. Here's the result so far:



I'm happy with the size, and surprised at how close I came with "eyeballed" engineering.

I need to tweak the dock a bit more, as the dock edges have two different outward slopes. Need to shorten the float bridge, too.

Looks like this Free-moN section will be just under 4 feet long.  Hoping to have it something up and running by mid August, which means more track laying soon.

-Dave

[Spades]

Nice pics of the State Belt.  Bill Kaufman's new book is also pretty neat (http://www.signaturepress.com/SB/SB.html)

Bill Kaufman will be doing a presentation on the State Belt this Saturday in Richmond CA: http://www.bayareaprototypemodelers.org/

Greg

[railnerd]

Unfortunately, I double-committed on the day of BPAM (what was I thinking?).  Been chatting offline with Bill a great deal about things, especially the weird business arrangements with the Belt that the other railroads had to deal with.  One such arrangement is that whenever a car moved, the railroad got billed.

[Spades]

Dave

I know your modelling China Basin, but have you ever seen John Petrovitz work?   http://www.pbase.com/atsf_arizona/coast_tours_john_petrovitz&page=1 State Belt & NWP with some Mission Bay thown in.

Greg

[railnerd]

Have not seen John's layout in person, but I have seen the pictures before.  Looks good!

-Dave

[railnerd]

Got a bit more work done on the long skinny part of the dock today:



An aerial view of the Pier 52 module in progress; overall dimensions will be 48" long and 18" wide:



-Dave

[jmlaboda - RIP]

Early after I left the Navy back in 1981 I went to work for a textile mill as a fireman/nightwatchman working 2 coal boilers.  Behind the boiler room we had a short trestle similar to your model where coal was unloaded and moved by a chain to the coal pit.  I still remember unloading hopper cars behind the boiler room and using a car jack to move the cars as the coal was unloaded from one bay to the next (we could only unload a car one bay at a time).

I look forward to seeing how this goes... it definitely brings back some good memories despite the many years that has past and I do hope everything goes well with your model.  It is definitely going to be an interesting model!!!

[Spades]

It does have some Santa Fe China Basin Content.  Bill Kaufman's State Belt presentation from the 2014 BAPM.

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