Hey Matt, that's a great photo of your loco. Really looks good. Except for the ditch lights and Kadee it could be a real loco. Nice weathering! I like it!
Butch
Thanks. That shot was actually a combination of "teaching projects". Jack "The Apprentice" Kemph had been helping me with weathering and the C44-9w in the photo is one I did solo. I had been helping him with track work an ballasting and the "shooting stand" is his solo work on a display stand he was working on. We sat them both on the bed cover of my truck with the field in the background as a "borrowed view" and got a better shot than we ever expected with a cell phone.
Unfortunately, he's been so busy with school and I'm so busy at work neither of us has had any real time for model building. It's driving both of us nuts.