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It's time for WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!

I continued working on the tinplate layout this past week.IMG_5832

I still had two more tunnel portals to build on the other side of this wall and to start a mountain on the other side as well. My son cut the tiles:

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This evening I covered the wall with Sculpt-A-Mold.
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I will need to use pigment paints after it dries.

We also added the elevated section in the other room.

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Now I  have to make 18ft of 5 rail tinplate track to connect this level to the other room. That will be another day.

Let's see your pictures.

Scott Smith

 

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A 2019 Christmas Layout memory

The last 2 weeks I showed on overall view, one from the front left and one from the front right.  Today's is front center looking right and left.

I designed the scenery for the layout keeping in mind the number of youngsters that were expected to show up. 

On the left, there's a winter scene with Santa's house, a dino park that many kids called Jurassic park, and in the back a bum camp.

In the center is a zoo of sorts: snake pit, petting zoo, wild animal zoo, and a walkway for viewing.

On the right is a small Easter Bunny village with drive-in movie showing "The easter bunny is coming to town".

The plateau will be another week.

- walt

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The photographer caught GM's Train of Tomorrow departing the station heading to its next promotional stop.  It is mid-1949 and the train's 2-year U.S. tour is almost over.  After a few months in Chicago and at the Chicago Railroad Fair, the ToT will spend 2 months in Canada then return to Detroit where the cars will be sold into railroad service.  The E7 will return to the UP and be re-painted in UP yellow.

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Let's start today with a dramatic shot of a detoured NYC wartime passenger train bursting out of the tunnel and cut under Roark Mountain and storming the dual-track truss bridge over the White River headed toward Notch Junction.  The pic was taken from a sandbar in the middle of the river:

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The next shot is more sedate, taken from a distant bluff as Frisco #719 trundles a peddler freight across the same bridge in the opposite direction:

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Earlier that day, another photographer caught the same train crossing the deck girder bridge over the confluence of two local creeks; the train is drifting toward Notch Junction:

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The same photographer that caught the peddler freight on the White River bridge also caught a Silver Dollar line freight pausing at the Roark Mountain Junction Tower to pick up orders while the crew accepts parcels and passengers at the Marmaros depot:

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You'll have to overlook the mess around the layout:  I'm getting to the point when I can finish the fascia and add paneling for skirting to clean up these views, but we're not quite there yet.  And it's time to do some more backdrop painting.

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