Ghost Railroad Hunting in Jerome and Track Laying in Calico 

Dave, thanks so much for the great tour and history! Awesome tips on track laying. I may have to go back to one of my modules and redo the adjoining track in order to get the smooth operation. Thanks again.

Dave, rally well done video. Very informative and Thunder Mesa is a fun very entertaining layout. A lotta inspiration there.

Thanks Dave, always wanted to drive the RoW but never did before leaving NAZ.

Thanks for the history on that. we actually camped up in Williams and took that down and back to Jerome in our side by sides wonderful ride.

Awesome ride on the old railroad

Excellent video on a very important aspect of railroad modeling! I'm sure Walt would say, "Yup, that'll do it."

Really cool to see somebody giving this little known railroad some coverage. They had a great looking fleet of chunky three dome 2-6-0's. I would also echo the suggestion of picking up a copy of Narrow Gauge to Jerome published in 1988. Some interesting pictures and lots of good maps. I've had a copy for a really long time. Just curious why do you use PECO track instead of Micro Engineering?

I didn't know that road was once the railroad right of way. However, little did me and my wife know that when we decided to take that road, just what we were in for. We started in Jerome, and off hand, I can't remember our destination the other town at the end. On our return trip back to Jerome, it was about 10pm, and it started raining. We were in a Toyota pickup that had a light rear end (empty bed) and started slipping and sliding on the soaked road, and if that wasn't enough, at the very highest elevation of the trip. It started hailing, with lots of lightning, I guess we were caught in a thunder storm. It started raining harder, and hail was hitting all over the place. Being very dark out, on that narrow dirt mountain road, now with hail lined everywhere, had to be one of the very worst white knuckle experience (and I've had many) that we've ever had. I was crawling at abut 5 Mph, up and down the road, and slipping, hoping we wouldn't slid off the edge. Well, we made it back safely to Jerome, and were ever so thankful to be back to our room!

Ghost exploring abandoned ROW's is one of my favorite things to do, love the UV&P! The Peco curved sectional track is brilliant, I'm gonna make a few pieces of 18" radius just to do it! A little too hot this Labor Day weekend for adventuring across the Moh-have-ee... have to check the weather in Oct or Nov for a Thunder Mesa Studio open house day that won't melt the rubber off the wheels of the ole rally wagon as I trek over Route 66. Byron Vista, CA

you've made a video ive longed for a long time!! I use to live in Phoenix and Jerome with its UV&P RR history was my favorite!! Thank You for a good video

Dave. Fun video. Following the old UV&P grade is always interesting. Really like you layout. Your art work is great. Neat trick using the curved rail in the Peco ties. looking forward to making an in person visit in the future. Jerome is just full of narrow gauge town inspiration. Mike

My Son and I drove this in 2018 and actually picked up a rail spike in a tire sidewall.

Dave, AWESOME video of the old UV&P!! I have to say this may be my favorite 3ft gauge line I've ever come across. And Russell Wahmann's book was an incredible resource of info and photos. I had even considered "modeling" the road in On30 (though moved that to a digital scape) but have elected on just building a one-off engine and consist. Headed by Ole' #8 of course! Found scale drawings of their #5 in an issue of the NG&SL Gazette. Although their moguls were not large, they were husky. I suppose one of the reasons I like them so much. But would probably still be too large for you TMMCo. Also excellent work on Calico so far and I saw the vid on your FB page. Glad to see the trains running! Can't wait to see what you unveil next, though I am especially eager to see that river front develop. All in due time though. Keep up the awesome modeling!!