Boise Nampa & Owyhee

[bparrish]

Hey Bob.....Is there any place we can see more pictures of your layout? If not, how about adding a few in the Layout Tours here!       Gregory P. DeMayo

OK........................................  Greg made me do this.

I'll put up some photos of my BN&O.  This is a recreation, with a lot of imagination, of Boise Valley in south west Idaho in a period of 1906 to about 1913 when the line was taken over by the Union Pacific under the guise of Oregon Short Line.

There was steam service in the area as well as trolley and freight service connecting the smaller towns around the valley.  There was a logging division that connected to the standard gauge main line but there was never a rail connection to the mining regions.  That connection is my imaginary narrow gauge division that goes to the south west hills.

I'll start with larger area room shots and then focus in on particular scenes.

see ya
Bob

[cuse]

Great Bob, I've been wanting to see this as well. I'm sure the craftsmanship you've displayed in other projects we've seen is all over this layout. Thanks for sharing.


John

[ak-milw]

Thanks for sharing Bob!

[ReadingBob]

I'm sure looking forward to seeing more pictures of your work.  The layout looks great! 

[gnatshop]

Gosh, you do darn goood for an Idyho boy with grey whiskers!
That's a big compliment, comin' from the Ledbetter boys!!! 

[S&S RR]

Bob

Wow -really nice layout - keep the pictures coming. Thanks for sharing.

[bparrish]

So here is the logging division and then some closer shots.




Road grader working the street extension on Main Street in Boise




Grade crossing near the trolley passenger stand.




Main Street in Boise.

[GPdemayo]

Absolutely wonderful.....thanks Bob!
 
You have so much packed into the layout and I really like all the individual scenes, especially the road grading crew. The trolley line looks terrific in the city area and the city has a bunch really of interesting looking buildings.
 
Great pictures so far, but don't get stingy with the photos and a track plan would be a nice touch.
 
Great work , as usual, Bob.....

[jrmueller]

Enjoy looking at you outstanding layout Bob.  Jim

[bparrish]

Coupla more close ups............

Trolley work flats in the Boise Valley Transit yard.  This is a scratch built work car from a junk in the drawer project.  I actually made two of these and gave one to a local trolley modeler.




Good Gulf gas station in Nampa.  This is an old Woodland Scenic casting structure with a bunch of clutter.




Narrow gauge consolidation in the Nampa yard.  Overlooking Lloyd Lumber Company.  This is a scratch built knock off of a Mt. Albert kit that they only offered in O scale some years ago.




Nampa yard.  This is a shot of a Shay having a truck removed to repair a drive axle.  The bucket coal shed is visible.

[ACL1504]

Bob,

Wow, what a great layout! All the operational possibilities are boundless. Nice photos of your BN&O Empire. Thanks very much for sharing.

Tom

[bparrish]

Next.............

First is a distance shot of the mining district served by the narrow gauge. 




This is the loco service area in Nampa.  The coaling shed was built from an article in a 1950 something Model Railroader.  I built two of these at the same time and gave one to a Milwaukee Road modeler as they had one like this near Beloit Wisconsin.




Here is the milk stand at the Nampa yard.




Slagle Feed and Grain was a kit bash that started with an article on making hay bales in a Narrow Gauge Gazette.  The guy falling over is me trying to handle bales.  I was never big enough to throw them around very well.

[GPdemayo]

Beautiful work Bob.....thanks!

[Mike Engler]

Bob you have built some fine structures and rolling stock, and the details, vehicles, and mini-scenes are superb. The track-work ain't bad either!


I like the rolling stock- I suspect some Central Valley, LaBelle, and scratch-built? Picking up on Candy's wooden box car with steel ends, do you have any of those? I don't recall C.V. or LaBelle having any 34' boxcar kits with the steel ends.


And see ya with some more photos soon.

[bparrish]

Mike............

Good call on the manufacturer range of the rolling stock......... mostly Labelle and Central Valley. 
there is a smattering (is that a word?   Oh Candy  ! ! ! !   ) of other stuff out there from Binkley to Tichy.

The oldest car on the RR is a Soo Line box car that I built in 1961.  It is a Labelle and was the first wooden kit I ever built.  I've refitted it once since the old Ambroid glue failed in the 1980's.

Yes there a lot of scratched cars but to answer your question.............  There are five Silver Streak cars with wood sides and metal ends.  Two have replacement ends as they were later Walther's SS cars and the pot metal quality was incredibly poor and they had warped and cracked by the time I built them.  Also there are two Red Ball cars with metal ends rolling around out there someplace.

I use Ship It for a switching system so they can be anywhere on the RR and I have to hunt to find one or another car.

Thanx for the complimentary remarks.

see ya
Bob