16: EC-11 is departing Annville and headed toward Lebanon.
At Lebanon, EC-11 will hold the main for a meet with east-
bound coal drag SE-32 seen passing overhead.SE-32 origi-
nated in Shire Oaks Yard outside Pittsburgh and is bound for
Enola Yard outside Harrisburg.
old Lionel uncoupling magnets, and installed them into the
Gargraves track where needed.
The sides of all rails are hand-painted using a mix of Floquil Rail
Brown and Grimy Black. I used four colors of ballast: light gray
for the mainline tracks, dark gray for sidings and passing sid-
ings, black for the coal mine and yard, and cinders lightly sprin-
kled over all areas, so the color wouldn’t be too uniform. The
different color ballast for mainline and passing siding tracks is
a technique many operating model railroads use so the train
crews can tell at a glance which track is the main.
I painted the sky backdrop using methods described by Dave
Frary in several of his scenery books. It took several ugly
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