My diorama that brought me back to model railroading

[cnw1961]

About the culvert, it is a 4 pieces casted hydrocal , so I glued the 4 parts together and used the included black wash to paint it.

To Kurt: I know you have a great North American theme layout, but I'm sure you are familiar with the reliable HO Marklin brand.

The culvert looks so good, it had to be hydrocal .

Jacques, I am sorry, but I do not know anything about Märklin. Sure, when I was a kid about 40 years ago, my trains were all from Märklin, the #1 on the German market at that time. But since I came back to model railroading a few years ago, I never cared about Märklin. I started with North American theme layouts right away. Märklin is still a big one here in Germany and many German model railroaders would not touch anything else, but I know ten times more about Atlas or Athearn than I know about Märklin. BTW, your steamer looks exactly like the one I had when I was a kid.