You Sir are amazing! Love all the history on this line. I’m just old enough to remember the line ending at Daly City and then BART came along and that was that. I remember seeing a SP SW1500 bring a boxcar to a warehouse near Colma. This was many, many moons ago. I love your modeling, Very, Very Nice.👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@anthonygermano9363 Hi Anthony! Yes!… those were the days, eh? (You’re giving away your age! lol) My friend, Frank Maffei got some pics of two ‘geeps’ pushing a string of flats carrying rail for BART up to Colma/Daly City. Quite ironic, huh? And like you say: “That was that.” I sure appreciate you looking in. And even more pleased you liked it. Stay tuned… as I get more done, I’ll be telling more stories. Hope they trigger some more memories! Please keep sharing your comments about the ‘old days’. Absolutely love hearing them as I’m sure other of us ‘locals’ will as well! Thanks for sharing and thanks for looking in!
@@troy.peters Thank you, Troy. I know the ‘history lessons’ are always a bit much… and I appreciate you listening in. Just hope they were entertaining! Always appreciate hearing from you!
Thanks, Dave. By now, you might guess that I enjoy the ‘history’ part of this as much (actually more) as I do the modeling! Just glad you enjoyed it! Thanks again for looking in!
Absolutely amazing John, I just love your modeling skills and California railroad history you are a true legend 👍 I missed your first film to this series, I guess I just been too busy so there’s no excuse. I’m going watch it now. Thank you and Merry Christmas 🎄
I look forward to your videos so much. fascinating history, great narration and photos. i'm an eastern railroad guy and i watched this twice. beautiful scratch building. outstanding prototype modeling. thank you John! :)
@@mysticrailroad Hey John, always good to hear from you! I follow your ‘eastern’ stuff and enjoy it very much! Keep up the great work and keep those videos coming! They’re great!!
@@oshtoolman So glad you like it. Sometimes I think I get ‘carried away’ with the history stuff, but I think folks around these parts would probably like the stories. I really appreciate you looking in - especially as you’re one of us ‘locals’. I really enjoy sharing our ‘past’ here! Thanks again for looking in!
Amazing work John. The structures you've built are little beauties. The prototype photos are fascinating. Back when things were much more interesting to us railroader enthusiasts ! Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year of modelling ahead ! Felix
Thank you, Felix. I really enjoy building them - but it’s their stories that I enjoy more! Happy to share and even more happy that you enjoyed! Thanks again for looking in!
Hi John! Great to see another video and history lesson from you. Your videos are so well done . As for your modeling and scratch building, I am left speechless! I hope everyone understands that you are doing this work in Nscale. The structures you have shown are absolutely breathtaking. Without a doubt, you have to be one of the most talented Nscale scratch builders ever in the model railroad community. Your work should be published. Also loved to see what you did/are doing with the trolley line. As always, thank you so much for sharing your work with all of us! Happy holidays to you and continued good health. Scott
@@kahunatiki6498Hi Scott!! So very, very glad to hear from you! Been thinking of ya! Hope all is well with you. Thanks for the wonderfully kind comments. Yes!!!… the “40 Line”! Of course, it had to be included in the scene! …it’s kinda funny… our folks generation remember it (and rode it!), but my generation could only wonder about it - only imagining streetcars running on the abandoned tracks in the middle of El Camino. I can easily imagine modeling the Muni and the Market St Rwy! Were it not that I got going with the SP, I most probably would have!! (Of course… I’d be calling upon you for “technical assistance “ !!! Hope you are well and wishing you a Merry Christmas and a bright New Year! Good health to you!! Thanks again for ‘checking in’. So very glad to hear from you!!
@ thank you John for your kind response. Still trying to deal with my loss and finally starting to get motivated to start modeling again. I was fortunate enough to be able to ride the South Shore Line as a kid in the late 60s and as a college student in the 80s, so I got many miles of enjoyment on the old orange cars. Living in Hegewisch which was a station stop allowed me to also see the 800s rumble down the Ford city curve to the Burnham yard. I sure miss those days and wish I would’ve been smart enough to capture it in pictures and film as a youth… I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Again stay in good health!
@ yes, I think we all wish we’d taken more pics back then. I know it must be tough, especially now, but I hope you are well and hope the modeling will help. Again, to you as well… stay well. Merry Christmas!
Great Work! I always enjoy tuning into your videos, SP in the bay has always been one of my favorite rail subjects here. Looking forward for your next video!
@@alpal.mp4 Thank you! Much more to be done (but a great reason to keep posting, eh?). Yes… the SP around here really is cool. I appreciate you sharing in it with me! Thanks for looking in!
Great to see John, Brings back memories of early 1950s seeing tank car at Ray Oil Burners, flats and boxcars at Balboa park, decrepit rails at Elkton, and walking on the Colma bridge across El Camino. Thanks again. George in San Mateo
@@gfhandelI’ve been anxiously waiting to hear from my best critic!! I tell everyone: “If anyone knows about this stuff any better, it’s my good pal, George! He’s amazing!!” Hope you’re quite well! Have a Merry Christmas and a great new year!
Great Job John! Frank Maffei would be proud of you. His article in Winter 2005 issue of the SPTHS Trainline magazine on the “Ocean View Line” was done from many of his recollections while living next to the line in Colma as seen at the start of your presentation. As his bumper sticker on his truck said, “It’s great to be alive in Colma”. Merry Christmas to you and the family.
@@trackntime Thanks Dave! Merry Christmas to you all as well! I know it’s kinda ‘weird’ to do so… but… Actually I am ‘dedicating’ this bit of modeling to your ol’ man. I only wish he could come by and help!!! Think he’d get a kick out of it.
wow John...thought those structures were 3D prints...actually modeling them from styrene takes great skill and artistic no how...love the history lesson too; seeing those old photos seem a more simpler life and time...wonder why they didn't recognize going the other route was more favorable in the beginning...
@@georgiasunbelt That’s a great question, Anthony. I’d have to do more research to give a ‘truer’ answer… but… In 1862 (when the San Francisco & San Jose RR started out from town) the ‘east side’ of SF was not that well ‘developed’. (Much of the bay side of town was quite “marshy” (with various streams flowing to the bay - leaving great areas of tidal / marsh land.) Of course, the original RR wanted to go through the more populated areas to gain business. And at that point in time, that is where the first ‘development’ of SF and the north penninsula cities/towns were. Always interesting how towns/cities are born and how they spread out… but this is what ‘early’ SF looked like. The ‘western’ side of town ‘took a while’ to come into ‘existence’… Indeed where the SP’s (eventual) depot and terminal came to be, was actually built on landfill out into the bay over a very marshy area of the Mission creek watershed. Slowly, that part of town was developed, but it was always a good mile, or so, away from ‘downtown’. Anyway… Just very pleased to see your fantastic layout (- done YOUR way!) !!! Keep it coming!
@@J2NscaleModelTrains I do have a few books on the WP… not much on the AT&SF. I’ll take a look at what I’ve got and send some titles your way. Thanks for looking in!
Sorry I’m late getting back to you. I do have a lot of books on the WP… not much on AT&SF. I’ll mention 3 here. (They’ve got good info and pics on WP -some Santa Fe - in the Bay Area) “Track and Time” Jeff Asay “The Iron Feather” Jeff Asay “Trackside Around San Francisco 1956-76” Donald Jewell Hope this helps!
amazing series and great model railroading! ive watched your SP Passenger ops video multiple times - are you ever open to operations sessions? Strong work!!
Thanks! Unfortunately I don’t do operating sessions. Not being strong in that department, I’ve never done them. I suppose I could try, but we’ve got a few other ‘things’ in our household to ‘work around’. But I do appreciate your interest and appreciate you’re looking in! Thanks again!
Looks really good John, thanks for sharing the latest update. I’m torn as to whether or not I want to replicate any of the structures on cemetery row, I may use a photo backdrop depending on how much deep I make the shelf.
@ Oh for sure, will be posting on my other YT channel the old main, think I shared with you before. HO would take up more space for a structure, that’s why I’m thinking the photo backdrop for Holy Cross. That section is still in design mode for the layout plan. Soon though I’ll do a video about the layout room, track plan, etc.
@@straightto8That’ll be great!! Can’t wait to see it! True… HO will take a bit of space, but I’m quite sure whatever plan works out for you is gonna be fantastic! Really can’t wait to see it!
You Sir are amazing! Love all the history on this line. I’m just old enough to remember the line ending at Daly City and then BART came along and that was that. I remember seeing a SP SW1500 bring a boxcar to a warehouse near Colma. This was many, many moons ago.
I love your modeling, Very, Very Nice.👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@anthonygermano9363 Hi Anthony! Yes!… those were the days, eh? (You’re giving away your age! lol) My friend, Frank Maffei got some pics of two ‘geeps’ pushing a string of flats carrying rail for BART up to Colma/Daly City. Quite ironic, huh? And like you say: “That was that.”
I sure appreciate you looking in. And even more pleased you liked it. Stay tuned… as I get more done, I’ll be telling more stories. Hope they trigger some more memories! Please keep sharing your comments about the ‘old days’. Absolutely love hearing them as I’m sure other of us ‘locals’ will as well! Thanks for sharing and thanks for looking in!
Thank you for another great history lesson and photos. Your buildings are very nicely done.
@@troy.peters Thank you, Troy. I know the ‘history lessons’ are always a bit much… and I appreciate you listening in. Just hope they were entertaining! Always appreciate hearing from you!
Loved all the history and photos!
Thanks Dave. I really enjoy sharing it and am very glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks, Dave. By now, you might guess that I enjoy the ‘history’ part of this as much (actually more) as I do the modeling! Just glad you enjoyed it! Thanks again for looking in!
Nice job on the new Layout John.
@@Longshadowsmodeltrees Thanks Bob! Yes… it should keep me out of trouble for some time! Merry Christmas!
Absolutely amazing John, I just love your modeling skills and California railroad history you are a true legend 👍 I missed your first film to this series, I guess I just been too busy so there’s no excuse. I’m going watch it now. Thank you and Merry Christmas 🎄
Merry Christmas to you, Sean! Always enjoy your videos as well! Love the Gridley Christmas parade!!
@ thank you John, I’m glad you enjoyed the parade 👍
@ There’s nothing better than a small town parade! It’s really cool you share it with us! Thank you!
I look forward to your videos so much. fascinating history, great narration and photos. i'm an eastern railroad guy and i watched this twice. beautiful scratch building. outstanding prototype modeling. thank you John! :)
@@mysticrailroad Hey John, always good to hear from you! I follow your ‘eastern’ stuff and enjoy it very much! Keep up the great work and keep those videos coming! They’re great!!
Love seeing all the old photos and hearing the history of the SF area.
@@oshtoolman So glad you like it. Sometimes I think I get ‘carried away’ with the history stuff, but I think folks around these parts would probably like the stories. I really appreciate you looking in - especially as you’re one of us ‘locals’. I really enjoy sharing our ‘past’ here!
Thanks again for looking in!
Amazing work John. The structures you've built are little beauties. The prototype photos are fascinating.
Back when things were much more interesting to us railroader enthusiasts ! Thanks for sharing.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year of modelling ahead ! Felix
Thank you, Felix. I really enjoy building them - but it’s their stories that I enjoy more! Happy to share and even more happy that you enjoyed! Thanks again for looking in!
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you as well!
Hi John!
Great to see another video and history lesson from you. Your videos are so well done .
As for your modeling and scratch building, I am left speechless! I hope everyone understands that you are doing this work in Nscale. The structures you have shown are absolutely breathtaking. Without a doubt, you have to be one of the most talented Nscale scratch builders ever in the model railroad community. Your work should be published. Also loved to see what you did/are doing with the trolley line.
As always, thank you so much for sharing your work with all of us!
Happy holidays to you and continued good health.
Scott
@@kahunatiki6498Hi Scott!! So very, very glad to hear from you! Been thinking of ya! Hope all is well with you. Thanks for the wonderfully kind comments.
Yes!!!… the “40 Line”!
Of course, it had to be included in the scene! …it’s kinda funny… our folks generation remember it (and rode it!), but my generation could only wonder about it - only imagining streetcars running on the abandoned tracks in the middle of El Camino.
I can easily imagine modeling the Muni and the Market St Rwy! Were it not that I got going with the SP, I most probably would have!!
(Of course… I’d be calling upon you for “technical assistance “ !!!
Hope you are well and wishing you a Merry Christmas and a bright New Year! Good health to you!!
Thanks again for ‘checking in’. So very glad to hear from you!!
@
thank you John for your kind response. Still trying to deal with my loss and finally starting to get motivated to start modeling again.
I was fortunate enough to be able to ride the South Shore Line as a kid in the late 60s and as a college student in the 80s, so I got many miles of enjoyment on the old orange cars. Living in Hegewisch which was a station stop allowed me to also see the 800s rumble down the Ford city curve to the Burnham yard. I sure miss those days and wish I would’ve been smart enough to capture it in pictures and film as a youth…
I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Again stay in good health!
@ yes, I think we all wish we’d taken more pics back then. I know it must be tough, especially now, but I hope you are well and hope the modeling will help. Again, to you as well… stay well. Merry Christmas!
Great Work! I always enjoy tuning into your videos, SP in the bay has always been one of my favorite rail subjects here. Looking forward for your next video!
@@alpal.mp4 Thank you! Much more to be done (but a great reason to keep posting, eh?). Yes… the SP around here really is cool. I appreciate you sharing in it with me!
Thanks for looking in!
Great to see John,
Brings back memories of early 1950s seeing tank car at Ray Oil Burners, flats and boxcars at Balboa park, decrepit rails at Elkton, and walking on the Colma bridge across El Camino.
Thanks again.
George in San Mateo
@@gfhandelI’ve been anxiously waiting to hear from my best critic!! I tell everyone: “If anyone knows about this stuff any better, it’s my good pal, George! He’s amazing!!”
Hope you’re quite well! Have a Merry Christmas and a great new year!
@@johnpetrovitz935 Happy Holidays to you John. Staying young and healthy due to your videos!
@ Thanks, George! Good to hear! (I’ll just need to keep doing these videos!)
Have a Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
Great Job John! Frank Maffei would be proud of you. His article in Winter 2005 issue of the SPTHS Trainline magazine on the “Ocean View Line” was done from many of his recollections while living next to the line in Colma as seen at the start of your presentation. As his bumper sticker on his truck said, “It’s great to be alive in Colma”. Merry Christmas to you and the family.
@@trackntime Thanks Dave! Merry Christmas to you all as well!
I know it’s kinda ‘weird’ to do so… but… Actually I am ‘dedicating’ this bit of modeling to your ol’ man. I only wish he could come by and help!!! Think he’d get a kick out of it.
Perfect layout for halloween 👻
@@how_to_hallagon1 Indeed! I must admit: thought about setting a ghost back into one of the graveyards.
Thanks for looking in!
wow John...thought those structures were 3D prints...actually modeling them from styrene takes great skill and artistic no how...love the history lesson too; seeing those old photos seem a more simpler life and time...wonder why they didn't recognize going the other route was more favorable in the beginning...
@@georgiasunbelt That’s a great question, Anthony. I’d have to do more research to give a ‘truer’ answer… but… In 1862 (when the San Francisco & San Jose RR started out from town) the ‘east side’ of SF was not that well ‘developed’. (Much of the bay side of town was quite “marshy” (with various streams flowing to the bay - leaving great areas of tidal / marsh land.)
Of course, the original RR wanted to go through the more populated areas to gain business. And at that point in time, that is where the first ‘development’ of SF and the north penninsula cities/towns were.
Always interesting how towns/cities are born and how they spread out… but this is what ‘early’ SF looked like.
The ‘western’ side of town ‘took a while’ to come into ‘existence’… Indeed where the SP’s (eventual) depot and terminal came to be, was actually built on landfill out into the bay over a very marshy area of the Mission creek watershed. Slowly, that part of town was developed, but it was always a good mile, or so, away from ‘downtown’.
Anyway…
Just very pleased to see your fantastic layout (- done YOUR way!) !!!
Keep it coming!
@ thanks for that in depth answer…
Fantastic as always John! Do you have any good books or sources about Western Pacific and Santa Fe in the bay area? Particularly the 40s and 50s?
@@J2NscaleModelTrains I do have a few books on the WP… not much on the AT&SF. I’ll take a look at what I’ve got and send some titles your way.
Thanks for looking in!
Sorry I’m late getting back to you.
I do have a lot of books on the WP… not much on AT&SF. I’ll mention 3 here. (They’ve got good info and pics on WP -some Santa Fe - in the Bay Area)
“Track and Time” Jeff Asay
“The Iron Feather” Jeff Asay
“Trackside Around San Francisco 1956-76” Donald Jewell
Hope this helps!
@ I have trackside around SF, I’ll have to add those other two
amazing series and great model railroading! ive watched your SP Passenger ops video multiple times - are you ever open to operations sessions? Strong work!!
Thanks! Unfortunately I don’t do operating sessions. Not being strong in that department, I’ve never done them. I suppose I could try, but we’ve got a few other ‘things’ in our household to ‘work around’. But I do appreciate your interest and appreciate you’re looking in! Thanks again!
Looks really good John, thanks for sharing the latest update. I’m torn as to whether or not I want to replicate any of the structures on cemetery row, I may use a photo backdrop depending on how much deep I make the shelf.
@@straightto8 Thanks! Yes… a photo backdrop could really be cool! Very good luck to you in your efforts! Please post for us to enjoy!!
@ Oh for sure, will be posting on my other YT channel the old main, think I shared with you before. HO would take up more space for a structure, that’s why I’m thinking the photo backdrop for Holy Cross. That section is still in design mode for the layout plan. Soon though I’ll do a video about the layout room, track plan, etc.
@@straightto8That’ll be great!! Can’t wait to see it! True… HO will take a bit of space, but I’m quite sure whatever plan works out for you is gonna be fantastic! Really can’t wait to see it!
@ Thanks John, appreciate the interest and encouragement.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to yourself and your family!
@ Thank you! And Merry Christmas to you and yours as well! Hoping the new year brings us more of this branch line!!