@PRR8976 posted:You deserve some sort of award for putting wires on your telegragh/telephone poles!
Tom
Thanks, Tom. It is the stretchy necklace string that I colored & glued to the posts without stretching them. Some look straight & some with a tiny bit of sag.
@MELGAR posted:A terrific job of modeling a Western mining town and short-line railroad.
MELGAR
Thanks so much, Melgar. I just put down what I remember seeing in life, but mostly on TV. You know, those old cowboy shows from the 1950s.
Of course, the rocks were inspired by my 2018 trip to Utah, Colorado, Arizona & California with lots of pictures that I took. Dave Meeks of ThunderMesaStudio of Youtube fame, gave a tutorial on coloring western rocks. I learned a lot from that. Of course, it took a LOT of layers of paints to get the correct colors and blend them. That was probably the most difficult effort for me. My son lives out west & said the colors were perfect. That really made all my work worth it. The track plan was a series of pencil scribbles, then laying track and making many, many revisions. 
