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The HO scale Gila Pacific Rail Road is the work of model builder
Ron Tarjany
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Gila Station
one afternoon and passenger train #34 is just pulling out of the station. Flat car TL 01 is waiting on the station siding for the log train to the Timberline Saw Mill. The flat car is scratchbuilt and the shorty passenger car is an Ambroid kit that was cut in half to make two cars similar to the shorty passenger cars on the Serria Railroad.
The Gila enginehouse is scratchbuilt with board by board construction. The wood is balsa sheet that was cut into scale width boards. The shingles were scratchbuilt using the method John Allen used for his 1948 RMC enginehouse article. The windows and small door are old pot metal castings from my scrapbox. The station is also scratchbuilt of commerical scribed siding, stripwood and cardstock from an article in Feb 1961 RMC.
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Timberline Logging Co.
flat car no. 1 has arrived at the sawmill at Timberline. The loggers who rode the train from Gila will get off shortly and head into the woods. The mill crew will unload the flat car. The Timberline Logging Co. sawmill is scratchbuilt of basswood using the board by board construction method. The stripwood was stained with Floquil paint that had been thinned with laquer thinner.
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J&N Chemical
is located in Cedar City, which is one of the small rural towns on the mainline. The structure is a modified Sequoia Scales Model kit.
The older gentleman sitting on a box and leaning against a keg of nails is waiting for his shipment to be unloaded from the boxcar. His frisky dog (on the ground in one of the pictures and on the platform in the other) is not too happy with the wait. The platform agent will load the supplies onto the gentelman's flatbed truck. The seated figure is a Campbell-Weston metal figure and the other man and the dog are Preiser figures. The truck is a modified Jordan pickup truck. The pickup bed was replaced with a flat deck built-up of pre-stained stripwood. The G&P RR box car no. 112 is an old time MDC Roundhouse kit that still bears the old railroad name. The "&" was officially dropped from the railroad name in 1929.
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