With my Penn Lake and Reading units completed, I've started detailing my Delaware & Hudson motive power.   In the works are a pair of RS36s, a gaggle of RS11s (each one different) and a lone RS3.

Like all my units, they will get proper air horns, radio antenna, and bells, as well as, grab irons, speed recorders, and MU hoses.

In addition to my Reading C424s, I also have some of Reading's last engines.

The engine that started my Reading modeling, an Atlas MP15.  The stock model needed little extra detail.  I only added the Sinclair radio antenna, Reading drip strips, the footboards and speed recorder.

While this project was completed some time ago, I wanted to revist it, to show the dramatic difference a simple backdrop, facsia and some skirting can make.

Originally, the layout had none of these things:

Rather visually unappealing.  Just a backdrop does make some improvement:

Even just a facsia can help:

Several years ago, my friend Greg (Skiwiggy here) painted these Atlas C424s for me.  The Bee Line scheme is a slight fabrication, as only select Reading six axles received it.  

The Penn Lake uses several type of paperwork for operations.   Although set in the early 70s, most of the operating forms are based on the current forms I use everyday.

Instead of TT&TO, PL's dark territory uses track warrants, based on the NORAC Form D:

At first my Penn Lake Railway, didn't have locomotives of it's own, using it's parents' power.   At the time, I didn't want to piece the lettering together from alphabet sets, or go throught the cost of custom decals.   Then, I stumbled onto Champ's (moment of silence please ) private name sets, which allowed me to easily create Penn Lake lettering.