At least, I think it's Lockwood. Could be Stauffer. Maybe some other town. But anyway, I borrowed the Main Street buildings from the Frazier Borate mini, and set them roughly where the business district will be on the new layout.
The street in front will rise about an inch from the right end, past the depot, to the base of a hill on the left (out of frame in this photo). The land under the buildings will also slope upward from the street to the rear track.
I will probably use the North Fork Trading Co., which is built from a wood kit (Blair Line). The others are Clever Models cardstock buildings, and not my best efforts, so they'll eventually be replaced.
There is supposed to be a brewery to the left. The Bitter Creek Brewing Co., my best Clever Models build, doesn't fit the site, so I'll have to work on a new one. I'm thinking I might try scratch building an O scale take on the old Campbell Bret's Brewery.
8/30/25: Throwing this in here for future reference.
This scratch built cabin was posted on one of the railroad Facebook groups by an account called White Lightning and Yukon On30 Railway. If I find the guy's real name I'll add it here.
The rockwork is carved pink foam; the upper walls are stick framed with individual board siding. He even did an interior.
It looks a lot like buildings I've seen in the mountains in southern California and elsewhere. I might well do something like it for my town of Lockwood, perhaps as a cafe.
There was an establishment in Lockwood Valley called Owl's Barn, from the 1950s until somewhere around 1990. It's not really the right period, and I don't know the exact location (out toward Seymour Canyon, I think), but I might appropriate the name. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-21-ve-9192-story.html
I also like this log store from Wild West Models. The picture is of the HO version, but it's also available in O scale. Roughly 5 x 7 inches.
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