NICK KANE"S SACRAMENTO VALLEY RR, Part 1

Nick is a true artisan. His skills and talent is second to none! Nick is an Antique Restorer specializing in many fields from Tin Lithograph  sign restorations to stoneware and 19th century Furniture. Over the last few years he has and is applying his creative talents to model railroading. 

He is building and HO scale layout of the Sacramento Valley RR, circa 1856-65. You can watch a conversation between he and I on my YouTube Turntable Discussions.

There will be a series of posts here that will include his layout build such as structure builds and scratch built brass 4-4-0 . CRAZY!

This is a Sanborn map which he has referenced for his layout as an overview for his rail road. 

Here is one of the period photos Nick has been investigating to match the map with actual track and structure placement...

The following photos reflect the track work around the turntable.

The engine house too was scratch built... of course.

Stay tuned for more to come, e.g., his 3-way and switch builds using Fast Tracks and his magnificent loco build of the L. L. Robinson!

PROTOTYPE LINESIDE DETAILING

Ideating new possible topics for our virtual meets, I was paging through one of my period RR books and noticed photo content that reminded me of my layout. Then looking about on my layout I thought lineside details may be a good topic. So, during one of our virtual meets awhile back I did a clinic on just that. Here are a few photos that reflect what the real rail lines and centers may have had along the rails. OR, what someone might see that could be considered as such. One fascinating aspect is that these could have been as tall as eight rails high given the need.

Here is the classic snake or worm fence. 

Here is one, nearly completed, of my snake fences. Thanks to Starbucks, I collected a small handful. I split em and configured the rails into HO scale versions.

Another fence type is what I call double post and rail. I have no idea if that is accurate.

And here is one I modeled.

Lastly is this woven fence. I've seen this type as property marker or as a garden barrier to critters.

The modeled version.

Stay tuned for more on LINESIDE DETAILS!