08-16-2016, 10:29 AM
Disclaimer: I can't take credit for any of the modeling in this photo. Even the boxcars were already in place on the spur!
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CNW5534RedOakIA8-15-16 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr
That said, this is my customized Chicago & North Western Atlas GP40, dating to the first run in 1996. Picked up the unnumbered model a few years ago at a hobby shop in Defiance, Ohio, that's since closed. Last spring I sent it, along with some Sunrise Enterprises detail parts that I'd been hoarding, to my friend Dale DeVene Jr. for work. He added a road number, the detail parks, and some paint and weathering and sent it back home to me a few days ago. I photographed it (with my phone!) on Model Railroader's "Red Oak" N scale project layout from a few years back.
You can click the photo through to my flickr page for a higher resolution version.
CNW5534RedOakIA8-15-16 by Brian Schmidt, on FlickrThat said, this is my customized Chicago & North Western Atlas GP40, dating to the first run in 1996. Picked up the unnumbered model a few years ago at a hobby shop in Defiance, Ohio, that's since closed. Last spring I sent it, along with some Sunrise Enterprises detail parts that I'd been hoarding, to my friend Dale DeVene Jr. for work. He added a road number, the detail parks, and some paint and weathering and sent it back home to me a few days ago. I photographed it (with my phone!) on Model Railroader's "Red Oak" N scale project layout from a few years back.
You can click the photo through to my flickr page for a higher resolution version.