Model Railroad Hobbyist | November 2016 | #81 GETTING REAL column Jack Burgess Building the Bagby Hotel| Meshing scratchbuilding with new technologies In the early 1990s a brother and sister in their 60s visited to see my Yosemite Valley Railroad layout. They had lived in Bagby (a station stop on the YV) in the late 1930s, including 1939 – the year I model. The Bagby station had become a non-agency station (one without a station agent) seven years earlier in 1932. Their father was a YV section foreman, and they were thus able to live in the upstairs living quarters in the Bagby station. It was a fascinating visit for me since they remembered so much about the small community of Bagby. Bagby included the YV station, a water tank and water plug, a store/post office, a garage, a single house (possibly for the store owner), and a two- story hotel. The dwellings were bisected by the railroad as well as California State Highway 49 which runs the length of the historic Gold Country. XX MODELING REAL RAILROADS AND WHAT THEY DO • INDEX • TABLE OF CONTENTS