GETTING REAL: Building an accurate diesel loco roster Adventures in Prototype Modeling
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y HO Siskiyou Line is now forever 30 years behind the current date, which means right now it’s August 1981 on my model railroad. While I’m going to discuss the diesel era Southern Pacific, many of the other class 1 railroads also have similar sources for this kind of information. I’d
like to see the comment thread for this issue’s column build a list of resources for other roads as well, making this a truly universally helpful column.
Motive Power Annuals For the 1980s Southern Pacific, some great annual reviews have been published. These fabulous books are
Joe Fugate is MRH’s Founder and Publisher. He’s also an avid SP diesel-era modeler, with his prototype-based Siskiyou Line layout perpetually in the 1980s. Photos and illustrations by the author unless otherwise credited.
Figure 1: If you model the “modern non-roofwalk era” Southern Pacific from the late 1960s to the mid 1990s, you’ll want to track down copies of the Southern Pacific Motive Power Annuals/Pictorials by Joseph Strapac and Joseph Shrine. They’re loaded with pictures and details about SP diesel locos from that period.
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