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Andreas Grewin April 10, 2012

Oakland Waterfront & Wharf

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The Oakland waterfront was a real busy place in it’s hayday. Several ports and ferry terminals connected Oakland to San Francisco and to the rest of the world.

Oakland Ferry — The ferry “Garden City” taking on passengers at the Oakland Municipal Wharf, foot of Franklin St. ca. 1900

Ferry Boat entering the Key Route Slip Oakland California

Oakland lumbermill — “This 1901 view, looking north from Alameda, takes in the Oakland waterfront west of the Webster Street Bridge. The estuary is lined with storage yards for lumber, coal, and building materials. Oakland’s city-owned wharves adjoin the bridge, and on the far left a ferryboat is docked at the foot of Broadway.” Pacific Gateway, Woodruff Minor, p. 15 Image courtesy of the Oakland History Room, Oakland Public Library.

“A rare glimpse of the busy Southern Pacific Railroad’s busy waterfront terminal in Oakland, California, where trainloads of passengers would be loaded onto giant railroad-operated ferries for a short trip across San Francisco Bay and into the San Francisco Ferry Building. Prior to the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the late 1930s, this was the way train passengers got from one side of the bay to the other. Use of the facility actually traces back to the late 1860s when the Central Pacific Railroad began transporting freight cars across the bay from what was then known as the Oakland Long Wharf, located at the western end of Seventh Street. The area around the pier was filled in in the early 1880s, and the Southern Pacific Railroad, which had taken over the Central Pacific Railroad, expanded and enclosed the facility into the scene pictured here. Use of the Oakland Mole declined after completion of the Bay Bridge, but some service continued there until about 1957. The Oakland Mole was demolished in the mid-1960s to allow for an expansion of the Port of Oakland cargo facilities. This postcard was published by the Newman Post Card Co. of Los Angeles, although it says it was printed in Germany. It features the longtime Southern Pacific slogan of being ‘On the Road of a Thousand Wonders.’ “

Oakland Mole — The Oakland Long Wharf, later known as the Oakland Pier or the SP Mole was a massive railroad wharf and ferry pier in Oakland, California. It was located at the foot of Seventh Street. The pier began as a smaller ferry pier extending from Oakland Point westward into San Francisco Bay. In 1868, the Central Pacific Railroad acquired this pier and immediately began extending and improving it and renamed it the Oakland Long Wharf. This wharf was used by the CPRR for transporting freight cars over to San Francisco starting in 1871. Part of the wharf was filled in between 1879 and 1882, thus creating a mole. Local commuter trains also used the pier, while the transcontinental railroad trains used another wharf in nearby Alameda until 1876 when they were shifted to the Oakland Long Wharf. Thereafter, ferries carrying both commuters and long distance travelers operated between the Long Wharf and San Francisco. Beginning on January 15, 1939, electric commuter trains from East Bay points no longer ran to the Long Wharf (by then known as the SP Mole or, officially by the Southern Pacific, as Oakland Pier). Instead, they operated over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco. However, regular passenger trains continued to run to Oakland Pier until 1958, when the last Southern Pacific ferryboat service from the Ferry Building in San Francisco to Oakland Pier was discontinued. After that, service from San Francisco was by bus over the Bay Bridge to Oakland’s 16th Street Station. After the Central Pacific’s operations were consolidated under the Southern Pacific, the Long Wharf was improved and the terminal buildings at the end of the pier rebuilt. Throughout its existence, progressively greater portions of the bayshore tidelands were filled in. The pier remained in service until 1958. It was demolished in the 1960s to make way for an expansion of the burgeoning Port of Oakland’s container ship facilities. Today, the only thing that remains of the SP Mole is the pier’s switchman’s tower which was restored as part of a small commemorative park.

1889 engraving of the approach to the Oakland Ferry Mole

Ferry Jeffries, Western Pacific Mole, Oakland. This is the Western Pacific Railroad Mole that served as a passenger terminal until the early thirties and then continued as a freight ferry transport point until the 1970s/1980s

Key Route Basin from Key Route Pier, c.1910 — The Key Route (later called Key System) was a privately owned company which provided mass transit in the cities of the East Bay. It was formed in 1903 by Francis M. Smith by merging Alameda County’s independent street railways into a conglomerate of streetcars, interurbans, and ferries, which were served by the Key Pier. It operated until 1960, when the system was sold to AC Transit.

The Southern Pacific Company’s Bay City ferry plies the waters of San Francisco Bay in the late 19th century.

Point Richmond Ferry Terminal was operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and a big piece of the pier can still be seen today. Zoom in to check out all the cool details of the pier:

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Andreas Grewin March 10, 2012

On30 Bachmann Weathered Reefer

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I have begun taking small steps in to the scale of On30. I have really fallen in love with all the potential of detailing and weathering in a scale bigger than I am used to and closer to my scale modeling. This will not replace my N-scale modeling but serve as a complementary scale.

This is my first humble steps in to the scale and represents an ice reefer car. The model is just an Bachmann Spectrum car that I have given some heavy weathering.

Andreas Grewin March 10, 2012

More Weathered N-Scale Cars

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These are more of an experiment I made this autumn try an weather a couple of cars in just on sitting. I made these on one night only just to see what was possible in that time frame. When you have hundreds of cars and want to paint them all, there is no other way really. I think they are OK, nothing special but presentable.

Andreas Grewin February 20, 2012

Milwaukee Railroad Inspiration

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I have always found the history of Milwaukee Railroad to be very intriguing. Hard to describe what it is, but the combination of heavy industrialization and the glory days of US railroads make Milwaukee an interesting spot for historical research. Also Milwaukee have an old history of brewing alcohol and the railroads played a key part in sustaining the breweries, which adds to the lure. Here are some of the pictures I found from my extensive ninja googling.

From Holton Bridge to Brewer's Hill — From Holton Bridge to Brewer’s Hill

Andreas Grewin February 8, 2012

Ebay Locomotive Winning

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Just won these babies on Ebay. They will be a real treat to detail and weather. Western Pacific used these old F units from the 1950’s all the way to Western Pacifics end in 1982. So I can really go all the way with the weathering and make them stand out really well.

Intermountain Western Pacific Railroad FT N-scale

Andreas Grewin February 5, 2012

“No Way Home” KV-2 Diorama Well in Progress

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Soviet KV-2 Diorama Railway Trestle Bridge

I can finally show the progress on my first ever Diorama build. It represents a retreating Soviet KV-2 tank stuck on a railway trestle bridge during October 1941. Supposedly attacked by a dive bomber such as a German Stuka, the Crew managed to escape the tank in time. But when they get back they see that the Stuka kinda missed the tank but still managed to destroy the bridge and disable the KV. Therefor the title “No Way Home”

The KV-2 tank and the track are models from Trumpeter — Soviet KV-2 Diorama Railway Trestle Bridge

Andreas Grewin January 30, 2012

Bridge Diorama Inspiration

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I just recently started the construction of a knocked out KV-2 on a railway bridge. I will soon post pictures of the completed construction before painting. But I thought I could start with sharing some of the inspiration for this diorama.

German captured KV-1 fails to cross wooden bridge

More futile attempts of river crossing with a KV-1 tank

Andreas Grewin December 30, 2011

OT-34/76 Construction completed

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This is the Dragon OT-34/76 built with some extras from Voyager and Aber. I built this as a quick project to try out some new painting ideas I have. The tracks are just temporary fitted here.

Andreas Grewin December 22, 2011

Seasons Greetings

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What better way to celebrate the coming holydays than with a big old dirty steam engine working hard in the atmospheric snowfall. Have a good one and see you soon.