SoundTraxx decoders in all of my locomotives. Finally, 17 years
after starting construction of the layout, things were finally
in place to begin duplicating the prototype operations of the
Yosemite Valley Railroad.
In order to model the trains that actually operated on your pro-
totype, you first need to understand what trains were typically
run in the period being modeled. The Yosemite Valley Railroad
was operated under TT&TO (timetable and train orders) and
the first place to look for that information is an employee time-
table for the period. Timetables are not difficult to find at rail-
roadiana shows, on eBay, and so on.
Getting Real column - 3
1a-1b. This map of the Yosemite Valley Railroad, from
a public timetable, shows its connections with the
Southern Pacific and AT&SF railroads in Merced and
the major towns and places along the 78-mile route
from Merced to El Portal, at the western boundary of
Yosemite National Park.
1b
MRH-Nov 2014
