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[quote user="jfugate"]Speaking of Jack Burgess and his Yosemite Valley Railroad modeling the prototype as it was on August 17, 1939, in every little detail -- he's a great example of going about as far as you can go to model the prototype accurately.Jack showed me the street in front of his main depot at Merced and then took the manhole cover off! He showed me a peephole in the fascia that you can look through and see that he has correctly modeled the proper under-the-street plumbing, complete with a removable manhole cover -- in HO!Jack also told me of one structure on his layout that has interior detail and a removable roof. He was showing the layout to some visitors and one of them happened to be a child in 1939 who *lived* in the house he modeled. When he took the roof off and showed it to this lady, she remarked something like: "Green bed spreads? My mother hated green and would never have put green bed spreads on the beds!"So back to the workbench for Jack ... [swg] [/quote]Wow...pretty neat. Lots of work though! My layout is completly freelanced, although I do try to stick to prototype paint schemes except when freelanced railroads are concerned. I have around 4 freelanced railroads, cars from the Texas Central, Pennichuck Railroad, and Midland New England (all friends' railroads with another planned) then an interchange with a freelanced shortline which no one models, plus a rock company with a run-though train. I do have a few freelanced cars though, which were home built by my different freelanced railroads. TCRR Woodchip Car[img]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/P1020830.jpg?t=1206490583[/img]WRS Plow[img]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/plowsnow1.jpg?t=1206490622[/img]Pennichuck Rock Car [img]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/P1020708.jpg?t=1206490657[/img]
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