a picture a day....

Four today.

I saw this beast at a local short line. Any idea what it is?

briansilvermustang posted:

                       EMD NW-5 Switcher, Florida Railroad Museum

Nice! Are you local? I live right down 301 and this is one of my favorite stops while riding my 250 dual sport. 

                                  nope, I'm in Ohio, a little ways away...

Down on the farm.

Just some more cell shots...

Its 1972 and Amtraks Rainbow Era.

    Bill

More random cell shots, take last night:

p51 posted:

More random cell shots, take last night:

it's all about the details!

gandydancer1950 posted:

it's all about the details!

It is, indeed. I've made no secret of the fact I'm not one of these, "build a layout, step back and look at it, then immediately break out the saw to start over" types. I've enjoyed many building aspects of the hobby, but I didn't really enjoy my layout all that much until it at least looked like something other than track nailed down to plywood.

I'm enjoying it a lot now that I am going over areas of the layout, wondering how I can improve the realism, then trying my best effort at doing exactly that. Tyler Whitcomb, an amazing N scale modeler in Tacoma, said it best when I showed him photos of my layout when I ran across him at the Monroe WA show. He looked and said, "So, you're at the super-detail phase, huh?" The man has built a few layouts so he knew the progression, I guess. But he called it exactly.

This is the part I'm enjoying now.

A very old tank car that sits on our training facility.  We use it for confined space training on removing bodies.  Just love how the old weathered look. 

Nick. T

Nice photos all.  It's nice to see some of the details on others layouts.

Next Stop, Perth Ambroy;