After returning from Hatteras for Thanksgiving, I was asked to do an article for the local newspaper. I arranged an interview with writer Bruce Wehrle and photographer Donnie Roberts. After several anxious days, it finally ran in the Christmas Day edition.
What a Christmas surprise to open the morning edition and see your story, not only front page but continuing for a whole second page as well.
The pictures were very good and showed more of a variety of subjects that I would have every thought about.
The Dispatch article is located here.
The pictures for the article are here.
This is the second version of my N Scale Model Railroad. It is housed in a 900 square foot building and has over 1000 feet of track. There are 3 railroads represented: Norfolk Southern (NS), Winston Salem Southbound (WSS) and the High Point Thomasville & Denton (HPT&D).
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
Scenery Around Linwood Yard
After we returned from Hatteras at Thanksgiving, I spent some time cleaning up for an appointment for a newspaper article.
I had also been working on scenery north of Kannapolis thru Salisbury, but got stopped when I realized I couldn't picture the Innes Street to Salisbury Depot in my mind. I skipped around Salisbury and also bypassed Spencer since I don't have the Roundhouse ready.
So, that put me across the river at the entrance to the Linwood Yard. The side from north of the Yadkin to Lexington is to be a winter scheme. I added some small ground effects (couldn't do much as this is all on plywood, not splines) and added the winter trees. Here, I used the Super Trees bare but sprayed light brown and the twigs from the Cinnamon decorative broom I had saved.
I had toyed with the notion of trying snow, but was really reluctant as I have heard quite a few horror stories. I masked off the track and ballast and sprayed a heavy coat of 4x Hair Spray on all the trees and ground.
I sprinkled on Woodland Scenics Snow very lightly. Here in Central NC, our snows have been rather sparse the last couple of years. I was immediately impressed with the look and took a couple of pictres and then moved along with more snow.
For now, I am keeping it off the track and right of way hoping to keep it out of the engine motors and mechanisms, With the light ballast, it is not as noticeable as I thought.
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