Arizona Southern Takes The Plunge.

The original idea was to have a pair of C415's in Southern Pacific paint to handle transfer runs between these two railroads. However, as most of you know a good plan only lasts until its first contact with other team members or reality, and this plan was no exception to that fact of life.

Figuring our purchasing department had better strike while the ordering irons are hot, we added a DCC with sound unit in the Chehalis Western scheme to our order with Bowser.  The new plan is to simply patch that big yellow center cab over to the Arizona Southern as painting has become more of a chore as the years go by.

Not much else to mention at this time, seems that train parts are not the only thing around here starting to show signs of wear and tear. Still, the plan is to keep at it as long as possible; hopefully that will be many more years, but one never really knows about that sort of thing. 

Write if the mood strikes you.

Best wishes,

John Huey

Something New For March, well sort of?

Okay, not really new, well new to us, but an OLD car in and of itself.  Just trying to add a few better bits to the freight car roster as we're able to.  Seems things that fit our era are few and far between.  This one is a stretch as to the dating, but should look at home once twenty plus years of weathering is applied. It does feature the "C" word, and that helps the decision.

Kadee 40' XM new for March 2024; Copper Range works for AZSO.

Not much else to report this month, I am still alive and kicking for the most part. Hopefully this condition will continue for the foreseeable future. As always, we at AZSO hope things are going well in your space on the planet and we want to say, Enjoy Your Trains!

Write back if the mood strikes,

John Huey

Arizona Southern RR

February 2024

Talk about one crazy month, so far locally we've had morning frost, coupled with higher than normal temps, snow in our local mountains, floods, earthquakes, thunder storms, water spouts, heavy fog, landslides blocking main highways, and high winds blowing over massive trees, and the month is barely half over.

Not sure where things are headed, but the model trains are taking a back seat to this intense situation.  

The fact that Bowser announced the long awaited Alco C415's leaves only one "grail" engine on the old bucket list, now we just need an Alco S6 switcher and that would be about it.

Not much else to report, just checking in with followers and wishing to say Hello.

Best wishes,

John Huey