Charlie's N Scale Layout

   20 February 2004  

As part of the Santa Maria Free-Mo setup and Modelers meet we had a couple of layout tours. Charlie worked hard to get the Gaviota bridge finished in time for the layout tour. Here are some pictures of the Gaviota Bridge.

Click on an image to see a lager view of it.
Gaviota-TH-1-8X6.jpg (65521 bytes) 1) 154 crosses Gaviota trestle at 10:30 AM on schedule.

Photo by Tim Harris
Gaviota-TH-2-8X6.jpg (110667 bytes) 2) 154 passes freight 833 ,in the hole,at Gaviota siding.

Photo by Tim Harris
Gaviota-TH-3-8X6.jpg (155090 bytes) 3) 75 Lark running late at 7AM.

Photo by Tim Harris
Gaviota-TH-4-8X6.jpg (95824 bytes) 4) Chief Cuss, and General Engineer, of the road, Charlie, what more can I say.

Photo by Tim Harris
Gaviota-1-8X6.jpg (105665 bytes) 5) The trestle on a sunny afternoon ,between trains.

Photo by John Kibildis
Gaviota-3-8X6.jpg (117259 bytes) 6) 154 crosses the trestle , due for a flagstop at Gaviota station.

Photo by John Kibildis
Gaviota-4-8X6.jpg (109039 bytes) 7) 371 in a rare daylight appearance, running off schedule as Extra 7564.

Photo by John Kibildis
Gaviota-5-8X6.jpg (123568 bytes) 8) 832 crossing eastbound at 12:30 PM.

Photo by John Kibildis
Gaviota-6-8X6.jpg (117844 bytes) 9) 834 crossing EB at 6:30 PM.

Photo by John Kibildis
X7235_at_Gaviota.jpg (1859823 bytes) 10) 831 passes westbound at 3 PM. To really see the detail Charlie put into the Gaviota Bridge look at this image in higher resolution. (1.8 M Image)

Photo by John Kibildis
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