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Adding some more scenic touches.
Can I just say how much I love that Lehigh Valley patch job? I'm trying to imagine what it looked like before...was it always LV? Would the big LV waving flag herald have been under the "CUSHIONED CAR" stencil?
The Railwire is not your personal army.
https://www.rr-fallenflags.org/lv/lv88501akg.jpg
Having walked in that world at that time, I'm pleased to report that you're nailing it.Lee
Oh man, you know, I never actually looked for a photo of the real car! lol. I got the raw car second hand from @CodyO , I think, and just hit it with some weathering (and maybe COTS). It's actually a factory paint job by Roundhouse. They didn't get it spot on, but it sure is a cool car to have floating around.
That's exactly how I feel about that car. I was hesitant to share the photo, since it's somewhat of a case of better off not knowing!It is such a cool car tho, I do like those old Roundhouse patch jobs. And your subtle grime weathering job is top notch!
Yes, that's a Pennsy car. They got some hand-me-down locomotives in the early 1970s too. Remember, Pennsy owned a significant amount of Lehigh Valley stock, so there was a relationship there.
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(anything to avoid modeling downtown York, lol).
I get it -- going from wide open railyard and sparse vegetation scenicking to doing scale-foot-by-scale-foot city scenes does feel overwhelming.