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Anyhow, tonite I was was working on a building complex in Oakland, located at Union St at 19th. This shot -- early morning -- is looking north along Union St.
Back in the day there was ATSF rail service to a coupla customers here -- American Brass (a distributor of Copper and brass products that was owned by Anaconda Copper -- it's on the right in this scene, Blake, Townshend, Moffitt a distributor of fine paper for bookbinding -- they're on the left, behind the Eucalyptus tree. On the left the low building is Graybar Electric, founded in 1869, specializing in parts for telegraph equipment, which gave the firm a very close relationship with the Western Electric company.. Mr. Gray did the engineering there and he filed a patent for his Harmonic Telegraph but had made the mistake of showing it earlier to Alexander Graham Bell. Bell filed his own copy of it and allegedly bribed the patent clerk to alter the time of day so his filing was a couple of hours before Gray's. Cut throat business there. Graybar remains in business to this day, tho not at this location.
One thing I try and do in my route building is provide for deep views. I elevated the camera from the above shot and rotated is slightly to show this part of west Oakland, looking north.
Elsewhere, I finally got my Distant Mountains working as I wanted... a shot from the Suisun Marsh, looking northwest:
I may have already posted this one but it's worth posting again -- a fine model by Craig Kawahara (ckawahara, member number 3 at ET) located at Nevada Dock on teh Sacramento River.
and I know I posted this one but here it is again -- Barry Munro (Capt Bazza's) Liberty ships in storage at the Suisun Naval Reserve Anchorage:
Another example of the deep scene I favor, taken above Port Costa,looking west to the Diablo Range.:
