The weather today was too windy for working outside so I worked in the shop.
I installed Kadee couplers on the center cab, two boxcars, a gondola and a caboose. The center cab and caboose were custom installations. In other words, I have a new short train for the layout!
The wind is supposed to settle down tomorrow so I can install switches for two sidings, repair electrical on another siding and work on a switch. Happy holiday! I’ll have to find a new project on Monday!
Good work, Doug, I installed only half as many Kaydees as you, but I did install a set of kit-bashed set of lights in one of my six Jackson & Sharp passenger cars (Bachmann), and I tried a new Piko switch for size in the layout where I want to build a spur out on a trestle. Not nearly as windy here as there on the High Desert, but just an ordinarily beautiful day. Progress here, then, too.
Doug the weather is great today!
Much improved. I’m just taking a short break/
Other than landscaping, my goal is to get the El Patron branch 99% in place by tomorrow afternoon.
Doug, I think we need to put in a spur somewhere along the line.
Driving up and down the hill everyday i noticed a powerline road looked just too perfect, and I I just knew it had to be former ROW of some sort. Upon closer inspection, ballast on this road. Further research came up with the following:
http://www.geocities.com/gatewaycityca/Arrowhead_Line.html#QuickLink11
Is there a water train or trolley line in our future?
John,
That is pretty cool. Nice to see someone put together a web-site to document the old line.
That would be a nice line to model in the garden. Not too many rural trolley lines to choose from 
Ralph
Doug, I think there could be a siding with provisions to fill up a water car. When you look how Arrowhead did it back then and now, it is just a simple pipe and a hose, both at the Waterman site, and the Live Oak site on SR330.
I think I will model a couple of late era cars, versus the early era water tanks on flat cars.
Makes me laugh when I see the commercials on TV.
I drink a lot of Arrowhead water but I’ll never forget about 30 years ago when the fire guys in Lytle Creek caught an Arrowhead truck filling its tank truck from a fire hydrant in Lytle Creek!
Doug - picked this car up at the show for 20 bucks… I wonder what it’s future is?
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/johnm/_forumfiles/future-arrowhead-car.jpg)
Hey John and Doug,
I thought I was the only who knew about the PE water trains:) After I built my 7 1/2" gauge PE Baldwin Electric 1600, I wanted to build an unusual car for it. I was going to build one of these Arrowhead water cars. Got the plans for it out of a book I bought at Orange Empire Museum. I think I still have the drawings I did in MasterCam on a disk or in a hard drive someplace. This was probably late 1980’s to early 1990’s. I even had a pattern maker at Los Angeles Live Steamers make me up some patterns for the ends of the tanks.
Gary, I am going to model the later version, while my buddy down in Elsinore is contemplating the older car with the custom tanks on the flat car.
Today going up the hill I was looking at the trucks filling up and gave some thought to a fantasy car with a silver tank and maroon frame and trucks… Don’t shoot me.
