My we did start early! I agree with Neal and Sirt, each has outstanding modeling.
Here is my contribution for the week. Last week you will recall I had finished a stretch inspired by New Brunswick or Elizabeth NJ. But I needed to tune up the lighting of the buildings. "Tune up" means getting rid of bright spots and dim spots. Generally this requires several lights, placing them behind the near side wall (closest to the viewer) and positioning/aiming the bulbs or LEDs so the light bounces off a piece of white cardstock on the far wall. Aluminum foil between the light and the back of the near wall prevents the light from shining through the wall. You also have to be careful to eliminate light leaks around windows, doors, joints etc. I use black gaffers tape, electrical tape, and even liquid electrical tape.
As you might guess, its tough to get it right the first time. Hence the tuning. So here, one week later, is the row of buildings with the illumination properly tuned
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And now a story.... Further down the tracks a photographer was standing on the station platform on a glorious late summer afternoon. He got a nice shot of the Afternoon Congressional leaning into the banked curve and heading into the setting sun
Six months later, the same photographer, in the same spot, and the same time of day, again snapped the Afternoon Congressional as it leaned into the superelevated curve at full speed. But this time it was under the early evening full moon...
