N&MRR Report (guys please look at this and comment)

[vsmith]

Been following along, the website is really taking shape nicely, the B&W shots look really authentic, I'd keep doing them. Color photography wasnt really common till post WW2, actually 1950's. If your in that pre-war era, B&W is the way to go. The station looks great, the only question is when do you start laying track? It looks like you will be laying over grass, are you going to do a raised gravel roadbed like Marty does? or have you thought about a raised planter to set the track in?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

Been following along, the website is really taking shape nicely, the B&W shots look really authentic, I'd keep doing them. Color photography wasnt really common till post WW2, actually 1950's. If your in that pre-war era, B&W is the way to go. The station looks great, the only question is when do you start laying track? It looks like you will be laying over grass, are you going to do a raised gravel roadbed like Marty does? or have you thought about a raised planter to set the track in?

Hey Vic,

Thanks for the kind words on the photography. I am going for the early to mid 20th century feel, but I may have to frame it in 21st century terms.

I am slowly doing things with retaining wall. I plant to raise the entire level of that side yard where those pictures were taken. I am only laying track on grass (weeds) out of impatience and a desire to see what it will look like. I will eventually have something similar to the raised gravel roadbed you mentioned but it can be a reality (financially and temporally) until next year. I am really working slowly, a few retaining wall brinks per week, better soil for the garden part of it and the engineering of structures and rolling stock. I've made it a point to buy the locos and rolling stock as a concrete reason to insure that the line is finished.

The wife would kill me for spending so much money and then giving up, this way the tables are turned. It will have to go through!

It guess it will be sort of like a raised planter. I admire your willingness to continue your line despite the issues you face. I will do my best to allow some elements of your railroading to enter my layout.

I was considering ordering a boxcar, or one of those $19.00 stockcars, from Trainworld and having it delivered to your address for you to decorate it up as a Borracho Springs unit then paying you the freight charge to have it sent to me.

Capt Carrales