PHOTO BY JOHN LIVELY Oh #@*%, a flat! A lot of thought goes into a little scene/Al Sohl E
lyisa Peabody, who is the local station agent at Dulce station and works for the Western Bay
Rail Road, had just gotten off work and was heading home. He planned on en- joying the rest of the Saturday on the porch of his modest home this fine summer day in June when, POW! Elysia instinctively knew what it was, but hoped it wasn’t as he muttered, “Oh #@*%!” Yes, it was a blow out. He could forget about getting home before sun- down now. Such was life in Colorado (as in the rest of the country) back in 1939. A driver was lucky to get 600 miles on a set of rubber tires back then. This scene was created on the West-
ern Bay Narrow Gauge Rail Road (www.
westernbayrailroad.org) owned by Al Sohl, who runs it as a private club, in Port Saint Lucie, Florida. The layout room was built specially for the layout which is O scale, and modeled after the D&RGW as well as the RGS prototype. Members meet every Tuesday night to work on or operate the railroad. They also hold a monthly operating session on
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a Saturday afternoon for members as well as invited guests. The scene was built for the edge of
the layout’s lower section (there are two levels) in which there is a lot of activity (e.g. reaching into the scene during op- erations, as well as for maintenance). The road from the Dulce station as well as the stock pen converges at this point and the need to have the road go over a small depression and into the aisle required a part of a bridge, which needed to be sturdy enough to handle the abuse expected during normal day- to-day operations.
I used one O scale Chooch wall se- cured to scrap wood with Liquid Nails®
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The bridge abutment was primed with a rattle can tan and then the individual stones were painted with various shades of brown. After the stones were dry, I dry brushed them with acrylic white paint. Then, after more drying time, I flooded the walls with a brown shoe dye/alcohol mix. The finished walls were sprayed with Dulcote to kill any sheen. The Model T is a diecast ¹₄₃ scale
model altered by cutting out the door and replacing it with a styrene opened door. The car was made to list to the front right by altering the chassis a bit. The flattened tire was done by cutting part of the rubber tire away, placing the car on a piece of wax paper and making the “flat” with a small batch of five minute epoxy mixed with a bit of black paint. Once dry, the tire color was dulled down with black weathering powder. Elyisa was made from an Artista sta-
tion clerk with one minor alteration. His visor was cut off with a Dremel tool and his damaged head was repainted with flesh colored paint. A brim of a hat, made from a business card, was placed over his dome and filled with a bit of epoxy. It should be noted that the auto- mobile is pinned in place to allow for its easy removal when we have to lean into the layout (usually to get to a train up on the Second Division) and the cross bucks have springs in there base so when they get bumped, they just lean over and return back to normal once the incident has been cleared up.
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