I updated this old image to a larger one so more detail can be seen. This is on part of one of my NTRAK module sets. The red line is in the background were you can barely see a passenger car on it. The yellow and blue lines are in the foreground where they have split away from the red line and travel along the back of the module to disappear behind a view block on the right before reemerging again to the standard three track alignment at the other end of the module set.
Pretty slow here so lets pick it up a bit ....[video=youtube;oqTyoFVDXWc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oqTyoFVDXWc[/video]
I installed anticlimbers to my pair of BLI C30-7s. I notched the rear of the anticlimbers to go around the handrails. The only issue is the green I sprayed the anti-climber with didn't stick too well. It'll recieve touch up soon. I still need to add beacons, antennae, plate over the class lights, and find a correct set of sideframes for one of the units. For some reason, BLI put different sideframes on the C30-7 depending on which cab it had. 4 windows had ones with outside brake cylinders, 2 with inside. The BN ones have inside ones. I also experimented with automotive striping tape on some MDC thrall gons. I figured doing this would be easier than masking off all but one end and painting it white (and of course adding decals. Everytime I've masked a factory-painted MDC car, the lettering has came off. The tape is about the right width to represent the stirpe used to mark the rotary end on similar cars. I haven't found a photo of an Thrall Gondola with the stripe (much less a picture of the thrall gons dated from the 70s or 80s) Do you guys think I should just paint the rotary end white (I could touch up the lettering and such), or keep on with the tape?
A Milwaukee Road transfer heads back to Pig's Eye yard. A strange visitor to the west coast, an old ALco handles the Sumas Turn, passing by an ancient sawmill. Back in the east, a CP run through passes a rural crossing.
I am about finished with this HO model of the Hearne, Texas depot as it sort of looked in 1951. Had fun photo shopping in a background.
Thanks, the shadows in the background don't go the same way as the foreground but I have fun playing trying to merge the two images.
