Wood-fiber patching plaster over
screen wire makes up the basic landscape, along with rock cast- ings. The scenic ground covers, shrubs, and trees come from a variety of manufacturers, and the backdrops are photos prepared on a home computer, and then printed at a local copy shop. Commercial backdrops are also used. Scenery coloring is done with Rit dye and powdered chalks or latex paint.
Epilogue At the beginning, we said that we
build layouts for a variety of rea- sons. They get replaced, too, also for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it is just time. A new Snake Can- yon Railroad is being built as this is written, and it has already had Thursday night operating sessions. One big change is that one city has been dropped in favor of having more open, dramatic Southwest- ern scenery. Another is that there are fewer small industries along the line and a couple more large ones. There will be more main line run- ning, but freight switching and busy industrial railroading will remain important. Cliff says he just needed the
change for his personal satisfaction, and he hopes it will be good for his operating crews, too. It will.
On the Road RSD-15 No. 818 exits Summit Tunnel under Talon Mountain. From here, it is all downhill along the lower side of Snake Canyon to Grand Yard and staging.
Switching Grain ADM Processing’s elevator — one of the largest ship- pers on the line — dwarfs the Fairbanks-Morse H10-44 assigned to it. Santa Fe had three of these distinctive, six- cylinder, opposed-piston, 1,000-hp units, which fea- tured a sloping hood front and overhanging cab roof designed by Raymond Loewy. Obviously pleased with the performance of these F-M products, the road went on to purchase 59 of the H10-44’s succes- sor, the 1,200-hp H12-44.
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