Uhh ...sorry....! There is a ton of info on HO sites about the HO kit, HO model railroads that use the kit, and "a" real Horseshoe Meadows on the east side of California Sierra, but mention only of a planned, not built, ski area there, and no RR. H. M. Hotshots (forest fire fighters), much in news now, are stationed there. Article l saw in old magazine must have been about somebody's scratchbuild or an early model from a kit, that one HO poster said had been around for a while. This from internet. I still think this kit was based on some prototype in the Pacific Northwest?, that l once saw pictured....somewhere.
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