A streetcar fan making a bus stop? Quite improbable you say. But true.
I made the bus stop at Orange Empire Railway Museum (out in
the desert about 60 miles east of LA). The museum is about 100 acres. Often they run a bus among the car barns. The bus stop I made is near the museum entrance.
Here is it just after I made it.
I renovated the bench, a real LA bus stop bench that had been in the outback of the museum for years. I even planted some desert ground cover.
And here comes the bus.
And I even hung a bus stop sign (it's an artifact including the bracket).
While renovating the bench I found inside the back
this sign of a real tire dealer still in existence in LA (third
generation of the family).
One of the museum member makes commercial signs so I photographed the sign at high resolution and he made a new sign of modern materials and I added it to the bench. The tire dealer donated $1000 to the museum.
Oh, the bus! It may even be the same model I drove in Willmette, IL during my Northwestern University days.
These pictures were taken during the winter of 2011-2012.
