Hi all, I have been kicking around a scene on the railroad for a while now of a fishing camp on the river in the mountains. They called them “Resorts” when I was a kid but that was really a stretch for the camps I remember. Anyway I have been thinking about a store, bar/hotel with rental cabins, tent camp ground and boat rentals like the ones in my memory. I found/added on to an area on the layout near the steel bridge over the South Fork of the Trinity River and decided to name the place/area after an old fella I know up in Oregun. Guilty conscience I guess, after all I have stolen and used almost every good idea he has came up with over the years so naming an old broke down business after him seemed the least I could do. It was either this or the Cat House I have planned for another area, and I am not sure how his wife would have taken that :)=). What really got this whole project off the ground was bashing an old glass bowl gas pump. I seem to remember one like this in a place called Deer Lick Springs which was a “resort” in the Coast range Mountains of Trinity County. CA but I was only like 4-5 years old when GranDad took me in there. Soooo, memory and fact may not exactly line up but still it got this project going finally. Here is a shot of the gas pump, there will be more on it later.
Here are some shots of the first cardboard mockups ( well actually I changed these several times before I got what I was looking for) Doing this allows me to get a better feel for the shape and proportions of the structures and what they might look like in place. The front views from left and right.
And a view of the back.
Thanks for taking a look. More to come. Rick
