B.A.D. = Becky And Dave's
B.A.D. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY
Our Private 15" Inch Gauge Live Steam & Electric Railroad
"Little and Big Bubba" STEAM, "Davey Boy" Electric, & "Yard Goat Billy" Gas
All NEW B.A.D. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY HOME PAGE
(Links From All These Photos Are Listed Below)
Doc & Becky Hemp
All Non-commercial, Private, at our home, about 3/4 mile of large 15" gauge track and switches, Grand
Scale Steam and Electric Railroad ....Everything was and is built locally from scratch. Dave Moeller, myself & Becky
have done and do as much as possible ourselves. And as of 4/17/05 our "Little Engine that Could" ... "Davey Boy"
.... electric switcher engine was delivered ..... And Nov 05 our all steel Warren Truss bridge that Dave Moeller
and I built was placed with a 100 ton crane. We have a train station, haunted tunnel, an old Western Town,
a large engine house and shop. 14' all heart redwood water tank.
"The greater the obstacle,
The more glory in overcoming it!"
-- Moliere
This is "Big Bubba" our private Steam Engine, Melvin Harris of Harris Locomotive Works built the boiler and running gear.
Dave Moeller & I built all the rest .. I did all the welding and most of the plasma cutting & used a photo of
a narrow gauge Forney style engine to design all our engines and rolling stock.
Even though we would like to invite the general public we can't due to the litigious society we now live in.
But there are many other commercial layouts like ours that do .. and we have links to several
at the bottom of this page. We also have many of our Railroad Vacations with unbelievable photos,
Some of which have been published in historic magazines, etc.
GO TO OUR ORIGINAL OLD B.A.D. MAIN RAILROAD SITE
When Finished with this Newer Site Here - Click the Link above for Much Much More!
Big Bubba
Our Hand Pump Car
The nearest flat car I built from scratch. The flat cars are for
parents, older and younger children to ride on. Usually pulled behind "Davey Boy" our little
electric engine.
"Davey Boy" In front of our Railway Station.
Our 14' Functional Water Tower.
Close Up of the Water Tower and one of our Flat Cars Dave & I
restored.
Little Bubba steam engine
Both our steam engines are
propane fired.
My mom Margaret and Bryan our grandson some years
ago in front of our caboose at the train station
Size comparison.
Some of our rolling stock
On our 70' Warren Truss Bridge Dave Moeller and I built
Moving our 70' Warren Truss Railroad Bridge
Into place
over Millville Gulch with a 100 ton crane.
Below are tons of links with details of all these photos.
We Built This Bridge With a 3" Crown & My Tractor "Big Blue"
with Dave Moeller on it only Depressed the Center 3/8th of an Inch! Unbelievable! I Did Put A
Center Support in too after building our very heavy "Big Bubba" just for my peace piece of mind. Also
Shown Is "Little Blue" My Trusty Welder!
Dave Moeller in "Little Bubba"
Exiting our Sierra Snow Shed type tunnel
"Little Bubba" at the top of Horse Shoe Grade
Our Wingate Windmill I built from a kit
The View From Our Track Just to the North of the Above Windmill
Yours Truly filling the water tank on "Little Bubba"
Our Family Halloween Party 2009
Play House and Play Ground
(for Syney and Shelby our cool
grand-daughters)
Inside their play house - the
one Becky never had growing up.
Our Haunted Tunnel
Me yours truly in "Big Bubba"
Our Old Western Town
David Moeller jus relaxin in Old Town
Actual Jail .. Put the rowdy kids in here (grin)
And ... Rowdy Wives!! (Well .. that's my story & I'm stickin to it)
Our Saloon with real wooden indian! And adult refreshments ;>)
The Dry Goods Store
Railroad Cop ;-)
Thank You Frank Delker For this great night time photo of "Little Bubba"
Our Pony Astro Sugar Pop ...
The Most Gentle Ever!
Shelby Renee watching &
Our Own Sydney Iris Delker in the Saddle
Supervised by the "Pony Lady" we hire at our events
(Where we got Astro Sugar Pop from her)
Alanna and Eric Dunbar's Daughter Shaylee on Astro Sugar Pop
Getting Ready for our friends Grandparents/Grandkids Party
The Shasta 2002 1&2 Cylinder Tour Visit
and Ride Becky And Dave's
Great Northern Railroad
One of my favorites, I snapped this as he was leaving
We had about 90 cars parked all over & everyone got a train ride
1999 Medford and Redding HCCA Tour at Dave & Becky's
2002 Pacific Costal Region National Model Railroad Association
Visit our railroad, My late very close friend Mel Nethery pictured here
7" gauge belonging to Bob McMillan - 2002 PCRN
Mel Harris of Harris Locomotive Works who built all our boilers
and running gear,
Dave Moeller and I built most the rest.
Friend Ransome Roscoe with two of his grandkids Cameron and Ethan
Our family Thanksgiving Outing 2008
These are Movies of our private railroad ... All 3 loops are around 3/4 miles of track ...
Thankyou Dr. Bill Hooker for these latest ones taken at our
SVA/MILO/LLU Western Reunion at our home .. 5 different schools involved that Becky and I went to since
the 3rd Grade ... We had about 150 friends from all over the country that came.
- 5/29/2011 - One of the shorter movies.
- 5/29/2011 - Big Bubba and Davey Boy Our Electric.
- 5/29/2011 - Big Bubba & Davey Boy down into station.
- 5/29/2011 - Davey Boy heading up into our Redwood Forest.
- 5/29/2011 - Monday Evening Taco Dinner
- 5/29/2011 - Shows bout 1/2 of our outer loop #3.
On the slow DSL this may take a while to download. We have 3 Loops = About 3/4 miles
of track, it shows going over our 70' Warren Truss Trestle, thru the Haunted Tunnel, Redwood grove
- 8/13/06 - Steam Movie - Phase #3
... All these are of Little Bubba, I hadn't built
Big Bubba yet.
- 6/10/06 - 1 Crossing New Bridge Movie
- 6/10/06 - 2 Crossing New Bridge Movie
- 6/10/06 - 3 Crossing New Bridge Movie
- 6/10/06 - 4 Crossing New Bridge Movie
- 7/13/06 - Crossing Bridge & Beyond Movie
- 8/12/06 - More Phase 3 Movie
- 8/12/06 - More Phase 3 Movie
- 8/12/06 - More Phase 3 Movie
- 8/12/06 - More Phase 3 Movie
- 8/12/06 - More Phase 3 Movie
OUR OWN PRIVATE RAILROAD LINKS & SITES I MADE
- Becky Rides AGAIN in the Pendleton Oregon Roundup Parade 2015
- Portola Train Museum - Dave Moeller & I Rent 2 Locomotives
- Friends Mel Nethery, Dave Moeller & I Run another Locomotive
- OUR 2009 FAMILY CHRISTMAS PARTY
- VISIT OUR 2009 HALLOWEEN TRAIN PARTY
- VISIT OUR 2009 HALLOWEEN TRAIN PARTY PAGE #2 - (Kathy's Photos)
- 5/27/07 - Our Grandparents, Grandkids Americana Party
At our Home riding in our steam and electric trains.
- A Night Time Ride With a Full Moon
"Uncle Joe", Cecil & Joanna Ride with us on our dinner train.
- See a typical Cancer Society Fund Raiser at Shenandoah West
- 2002 Shasta 1&2 Cylinder Brass Tour visits our railroad
- Tri Counties 1999 HCCA Tour visits our railroad
- PCR/NMRA Ride our train
- Building our Forney Steam engine Page #1
- Building our Forney Steam engine Page #2
- Building our Forney Engine and OUR OLD WESTERN TOWN Page#3
- Building our Forney Steam engine Page #4
- See Our Newest Electric Switcher Engine! "DAVEY BOY"
- See how our (Becky & Dave's) Caboose was built
- See the Windguard Windmill I built for our Western Town
- Building Phase #3 of our layout
- Go To Our New Custom Built Stub Switch Site
See how Dave Moeller and I are building this difficult and seldom used type switch into and existing curve.
- Visit Our Fabrication of Our Own Warren Truss Bridge Page #1
- See Our Bridge moved into place with a 100 Ton Crane 11/19/05!
- Visit our 5/04 Second Phase Track & Tunnel Development!
- See Photos of B.A.D. Great Northern Railroad by Matt Starman.
- Steps To Steaming up "Little Bubba"
- Visit our Hobby Site, Cars, Remote Control Planes, Harleys,etc.
- GO TO OUR ORIGINAL OLD B.A.D. MAIN RAILROAD SITE
(lots of day to day building of our railroad and lots more how to photos)
- See Russ & Suzy Robinson's New Grand Scale Layout
Russ and Suzy are good friends of ours .. I do his web site for him ... I took most of the photos 11/05.
- Visit Another Friends Grand Scale website I did too .. Jim Berskin
- The Late Mel Nethery's G Scale Layout
Mel was one of my best Friends!
OUR RAIL TRIPS, VACATIONS AND OTHER RAILROADS
