). Custom servo for 360 degrees panning and 60 degrees tilting.
GoPro HD camera mounted on AVM-100GP Pan and Tilt system controlled with servos.
The California Southern Narrow Gauge Railroad in G-ScaleDedicated to Aaron Roy (RIP Aug 2010)
In Oct. 2010 the indoor Christmas layout was moved to the outside garden.
This took a couple of years of collecting/buying track during the holiday seasons which can be the biggest cost of starting a G-scale Gauge #1 railroad. The mainline track is LGB solid brass rails and plastic ties. The spurs and sidings are Bachmann steel track.
Working on the G Scale California Southern Railroad. Future site of saw mill and Alber Hill mining area.
On board the CalSoRR #10 4-6-0.
My first steel bridge took about 3 hours to design and weld up. Good afternoon project.
Road Crossing at Grand St. near Elsinore Depot.
Cal.So.RR. #10 loco over taking the Santa Fe #7.
More info late 2010 along with train mods for battery power, sound and FPV system.HistoryThe California Southern Railroad was a subsidiary railroad of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe) in Southern California.
It was organized July 10, 1880, and chartered on October 23, 1880, to
build a rail connection between what has become the city of Barstow and San Diego, California.
Construction began in National City, just south of San Diego, in 1881, and proceeded northward to the present day city of Oceanside. From there, the line turned to the northeast through Temecula Canyon, then on to the present cities of Lake Elsinore, Perris and Riverside before a connection to the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) in Colton. Following a frog war
where the SP refused to let the California Southern cross its tracks, a
dispute that was resolved by court order in favor of the California
Southern, construction continued northward through Cajon Pass to the present day cities of Victorville and Barstow. The line, completed on November 9, 1885, formed the western end of Santa Fe's transcontinental railroad connection to Chicago. Portions of the original line are still in use today as some of the busiest rail freight and passenger routes in the United States.
California Southern at San Bernardino Yard. 1915
California Southern Passenger train (California Limited) at the top of Cajon Pass cooling brakes for the decent.
In order to connect to the Atlantic and Pacific line in the quickest
way possible, surveyors and engineers for the California Southern pushed
the route through Fallbrook and Temecula, bypassing what was at the time the pueblo of Los Angeles.
What the railroad didn't understand was the nature of Southern
California's dry washes. The local inhabitants told the railroad of the
dangers of building through such an area, that it could become a raging
torrent of water, but the railroad built through the canyon anyway.
Despite the warnings, track work through the canyon proceeded at a
quick pace. The line was completed to Fallbrook on January 2, 1882, then
to Temecula on March 27, 1882.
Many parts of the canyon had suffered storms. In February 1884 a
storm hit. The train was delayed and the canyon walls brought boulders
crashing down on the rails. On February 3, the train was unable to get
through. A few days later, the wires were down. The train from Colton to
San Diego
was unable to get through. Disaster had been averted because young
Charlie Howell hurried up the tracks from his family homestead near
Willow Glen and somehow managed to stop the train.[12] A series of devastating washouts
on the section through Temecula Canyon occurred amid heavy rain storms
that flooded the area starting on February 16, 1884, just six months
after the first trains operated the entire route between San Diego and
San Bernardino. The storms brought more than 40 inches (1,000 mm) of
rain in a four-week period. Two thirds of the mainline through the
canyon were washed out with ties seen floating as far as 80 miles (129
km) away in the ocean.[13]
Temporary track repairs were made after the first storms, but later in
the month, additional rains and flooding washed out the entire route
through the canyon. Repairs were estimated at nearly $320,000, a figure that could not be recouped effectively.[6]
The canyon was finally bypassed completely with the completion of the Surf Line on August 12, 1888, and the line through the canyon was relegated to branch line status.
Inside the tender all the RC gear, RX, Battery, iPod, Novak ESC, iPod amp, Speakers and UBEC 5v.