04-23-2013, 02:06 PM
In the spirit of a couple of other recent posts on passenger service, here's an overhead view down the main line at my Zenith Amtrak passenger station.
The Amtrak station, on the right, is the Walthers model, recently revived (but this one is from the 1990s), a model of the Rochester, NY station. (Here's a shot of the prototype, early one very cold morning):
This is one of the areas I've been returning to. The model roof is off as I go back to installing lighting. I need to add more paving to the area around the station. Yesterday I added the short platform to the right with the traffic cones at the end. On the to-do list will be to add Wheels of Time yellow rubber platform edge decals to this short platform, as well as another platform elsewhere on the layout.
The white stuff on the center track is from a friend who was "helping" me with scenery, who spilled a rubber mold filled with not-quite-hardened plaster all over the area. This is the rest of what I need to clean up, but the end is in sight, just a lot of work with an old toothbrush. Then finishing ballast in the area and other incidental details, like more figures, platform lights, BLMA relay boxes, etc.
The Amtrak station, on the right, is the Walthers model, recently revived (but this one is from the 1990s), a model of the Rochester, NY station. (Here's a shot of the prototype, early one very cold morning):
This is one of the areas I've been returning to. The model roof is off as I go back to installing lighting. I need to add more paving to the area around the station. Yesterday I added the short platform to the right with the traffic cones at the end. On the to-do list will be to add Wheels of Time yellow rubber platform edge decals to this short platform, as well as another platform elsewhere on the layout.
The white stuff on the center track is from a friend who was "helping" me with scenery, who spilled a rubber mold filled with not-quite-hardened plaster all over the area. This is the rest of what I need to clean up, but the end is in sight, just a lot of work with an old toothbrush. Then finishing ballast in the area and other incidental details, like more figures, platform lights, BLMA relay boxes, etc.