Dos Cabezas siding from Jessica Rae's collection

I love this siding so much, I wish I could model it. If I didn't model Plaster City, I could do this siding on the new SD&AE layout (under construction).

The SW's rambled past J&W Redwood in El Cajon

A good friend of mine's dad owned J&W Redwood in El Cajon and The SD&AE's SW's with a few cars would rumble by on the way to the rest of the industries just up the street. Now J&W Lumber, it's still on Marshall in El Cajon just off I-8. All part of what local foamers referred to as The City of El Cajon, the back to back SW-8's chugging their way to El Cajon from Downtown.

This makes me sad

Freight Gateway Study - SD&AE Railway Improvements

The San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway straddles the U.S./Mexico border, connecting San Diego, Tijuana, Tecate, and the Imperial Valley. The U.S. section of the railroad is owned by the Metropolitan Transit System, and the 44 miles in Mexico are owned by the Mexican federal government and assigned to the state of Baja California for operations. The rail line east of Tecate was taken out of service in late 2008 for bridge repairs.

Trainboard has Hollow Core Door layout society

Who would have thought? Check this out TRAINBOARD I wonder if it's like AA, when we enter, we must say I'm Chuck and I'm an HCD-aholic. This is a great place along with RAILWIRE where members have built HCD layouts. I was going to begin Sunday, but Saturday my father in-law passed away. So next weekend, we will try again. Charlie (My father in-law) was from National City and really liked The SD&AE when we talked about it. He remembers when there was passenger service on it.

How long is the wait at the border?

When The Pacific Southwest Railway Museum runs excursion trains on The SD&AE, they have to cross the border. Wonder if they have to show passports and declare any items purchased? This was the massive excursion ten trains in 1983 detailed here by The PSRMA.

Video of SD&AE (San Diego Model Railroad Museum)

Welcome to 2011 and some revisions

We have a tour with photos from my collection on the top of the homepage. You can see shots I took from El Centro to Coyote Wells. I plan to finish the tour through to San Diego by using borrowed shots and noting the source on the page. You can track the progress of my SD&AE El Centro to Plaster City HCD N Scale layout on the top of the homepage as well. Enjoy and tell your SD&AE friends about this site.