Playa Desnuda Branch of the Pacific Electric

[johnb]

I like it.   I have a soft spot for PCC trolleys having grown up in Pittsburgh area and rode them with some regularity. 

A suggestion I could make having done a fair amount of research on these for a future project would be to lower those Bachmanns.  The wheel C/L should be about level with the lower body skirt edge.  It makes a day and night difference.  Remove the silhouette stickers so they can be reapplied in the lowered position and start filing!   It shouldn't be too bad especially since I'm not the one doing it.

thank you, but I am not going to lower these two...they don't run. After I get my Miniatures By Eric shells powered and running, I am going to send the PCC chassis minus the shells into Bachmann for replacement, and lower those.

[johnb]

Playa Desnuda is that beach city that happens to be on the wrong side of the tracks. It really needs a dive bar, and I an going to help out the town.

I am thinking about naming it Vardi’s, in honor of Chandler’s Phillip Marlowe. In Marlowe’s debut novel, The Big Sleep, he drank (a lot) at Vardi’s. Unless someone can give me a better name..besides, The Big Sleep is one of my favorite movies.

[johnb]

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Turnbaugh's Hard Hat is a legendary East Coast Railwire hangout... but I like your idea better.

[johnb]

Vardi’s is getting closer to opening, just need to get some signage, and get a delivery from Gallifrey Supplies down by the station. I am now looking for a Brew 102 sign to put on the side…

[Cajonpassfan]

The Internet is your friend...
Otto K.

[johnb]

This morning I decided to take Playa Desnuda outside into the morning sun. I even orientated the layout to the proper east/west direction….I took these pictures with my tablet since my Nikon battery was not charged…

[johnb]

I spent Father’s Day working on my N Scale models of 1449 and a 1100 Class. I got my Tomyec chassis from Plaza Japan yesterday, and my daughters had fun trying to figure out the Japanese newspaper….I have not attached any part that needs to be black.

[robwill84]

Nice, are those Miniatures by Eric bodies?

[johnb]

Nice, are those Miniatures by Eric bodies?

yes, they are. A pair of Southern Californian prototypes, bodies made in Canada, bought from France.  They are powered by a pair of Tomix chassis, made in China, bought from Japan

I never thought that modeling the Pacific Electric was going to be so international.

[eja]

A pair of Southern Californian prototypes, bodies made in Canada, bought from France.  They are powered by a pair of Tomix chassis, made in China, bought from Japan

Truly remarkable.       Great modeling too !

[johnb]

Truly remarkable.       Great modeling too !

thank you

[coosvalley]

yes, they are. A pair of Southern Californian prototypes, bodies made in Canada, bought from France.  They are powered by a pair of Tomix chassis, made in China, bought from Japan

I never thought that modeling the Pacific Electric was going to be so international.

The Pacific Electric International!

[johnb]

Just need poles

[MK]

Peteski?     (Ok, that was bad.)