The Hjemstad Line

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Those closeup photos that enlarge the model six or seven times are quite unforgiving! But on the layout from normal viewing distances, the brush strokes won't even show.

One of the founding members of the Lake County Model Railroad Club, used color slides, projected on his kitchen wall, to find and identify all the "things" that looked non-prototypical. He'd identify as many as he could, correct them, shoot the picture again.......and see things he had missed the first go around. He usually stopped after the fourth picture. It was then, extremely difficult to say whether a picture was a model, or the real scene.