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4: Preceding spread: “Departure time nears as the group of soldiers
stand visiting with a local MP on the platform. The Korean war has
finally calmed down, and they are anxious to make the next leg of
their trip home on leave. It looks like the Yellow Cab just dropped off a
local business man, but he is going to make the train despite not get-
ting away from the office on time.”
Darrell Cowles took this shot on the now dismantled Texas Western
Model RR Club. The depot is a Walthers' kit that was built by fellow
club member, and structure expert, Ken Marcoux, with shingles help
from Mike Corley.
Most of the figures are Preiser, the vehicles are Classic Metal Works,
the surrounding scenery by various club members. Darrell custom
painted the two E8 Proto 2000 locomotives in Texas & Pacific livery
and added details specific to the prototype engines. He also painted
several of the passenger cars you see in the train.
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5: The Estrella & Sonora Grande
Railroad 0-4-2T Porter has seen
better days. Vern Niner began with
a Bachmann On30 model that he
weathered with rattle can spray
paint, acrylics and chalk. The cab
is original to the model but weath-
ered with acrylics and distressed
with a wire brush to simulate
wood grain. The tarpaper roof was
made with tissue paper soaked
with Polly S Oily Black acrylic paint.
The stack is a brass part from
Precision Scale and cab details are
fromGrandt LIne.
Vern uses operating link and pin
couplers on his equipment.
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