Sierra Railroad 1955

The Wslc Engine House with the mill in the background. The building were made from Russ Simpson’s drawings glued to foam core. One of these days I will scratch build the building or simply overlay wood siding on the existing foam core. (12-09)

An overview of the WSLCo yard tracks. The car shops and the old engine house at the north end of the yard will be able to built full size based on Russ Simpson’s drawings. The WSLCo mainline runs across the front of the heater/hot water tank enclosure. The track running across the top right side is the Pickering, it runs through enclosure and pops out on the other side above Bakers Siding.(12-09)

The old engine house. The unfinished shay is a prototype MDC HOn3 2 truck shay built before MDC came out with their HOn3 shay kit. Behind the engine house is the narrow gauge wye. (12-09)

The narrow gauge track is heading for the narrow gauge wye. The standard gauge track crossing the narrow gauge track is the Sierra track heading out to the unloading spur at the WSLCo fuel and sand facility. The dual gauge track is from the unloading spur back down to the WSLCo engine house area.

The back leg of the WSLCo wye. The turnout in the corner is thrown by a Tortoise switch machine.

The other leg of the WSLCo wye. The tank car is spotted on the unloading track for the WSLCo fuel facility. The track is dual gauged so standard gauge cars can be spotted. The dual gauge track on the left is the WSLCo mainline, the dual gauge trackage ends just past the tank car. The two narrow gauge tracks lead to car repair shops.(12-09)

Photo taken from the fueling area looking back towards the car shops and the yard tracks. (12-09)

The WSLCo #15 at Bakers Siding heading out to the woods with a reefer and string of empties.

The WSLCo #15 is just out of the picture to the left. The track loops around and climbs above Bakers Siding. Just above the green fascia is the Pickering heading towards the Peeled Onion. The log cars are a mix of the new Kadee cars and some home made cars. They will be replaced with models of the Swayne cars some time in the future.

The Pickering comes around the corner on the Peeled Onion and then ducks under the WSLCo as the WSLCo crosses over the aisle way. The bridge represents Flume. (12-09)

The WSLC tracks crossing over Flume and starting its decent into the Tuolumne River Canyon. (12-09)

The WSLCo  after crossing Flume and heading down towards the Tuolumne River canyon and the River Bridge.(12-09)

The WSLCo  curving around the end of the peninsula. (12-09)

The WSLC in the Tuolumne River Canyon just west of the River Bridge. The River Bridge siding is on the right sid eof the picture. (12-09)

The River Bridge. The WSLC continues to the right and after a “S” curve disappears through the backdrop in the back right hand corner. The Pickering mainline to Soap Creek is on the right and will disappear and duck under the WSLC and reappearing at Soap Creek. (12-09)

The WSLC after crossing the River Bridge enter the crew lounge room above the Pickering Mill at Fassler. In the far left corner will be Hull Creek with a burn out area as the result of the Hull Creek fire. (12-09)

Camp 24 and the end of the modeled portion of the WSLC. (12-09)

The track curving to the right is the loop track at Camp 24. The track to the left is the mainline continuing out to the woods ( it end about another 5 ft to the left. A staged loaded log train will arrive from the woods and exchange it loads for empties that have been brought up to Camp 24  from the Tuolumne Mill 24. I just have to build approximately 40 – 45  Swayne logs and I be in business. (12-09)