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Adding Leaves to Weather a Loco Locos and rolling stock
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Regular poster 119 posts tretteld Regular poster 119 posts
tretteld

Here is a weathering detail for the folks that model autumn or early winter that I haven't seen anyone try. You can add a few dried and brown leaves on the air intake of your locomotive. Yesterday I caught the BNSF local spotting a gondola in Monroe Wa. on the Scenic Subdivision.

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Don Trettel
(modeling the 1970's N&W from a long ways away, but still railfan in the present)
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YoHo Prolific poster 3,063 posts
YoHo

You could go crazy and model

You could go crazy and model a Portland and Western GP39-2 running the Toledo hauler on a rainy October day...The intakes would be more leaves than intake.
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jimfitch Prolific poster 5,288 posts
jimfitch

Just don't get them on the

Just don't get them on the tracks!  England has had to cancel passenger train service a number of times due to leaves on the tracks.  Amazing but true! 

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Jim Fitch
northern VA
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barr_ceo Super User 3,297 posts
barr_ceo

Wet leaves on tracks = can't

Wet leaves on tracks = can't stop the train.

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barthollis Regular poster 190 posts
barthollis

How many

 of you "Old Hands" cringe when seeing a picture like this?  Yeah, I know he has a radio, but he;s still on the wrong side of the loco where he can't be seen!  Way too many bad things can happen and if he couldn't get to his radio, well .....

Doesn't rule S (something) "The absence of a signal is to interpreted as a stop signal" apply any more?  Gives me the willies!

Bart
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tretteld Regular poster 119 posts
tretteld

Nope, correct side

This was the trailing unit. The engineer is in the forward loco, on the same side. In this shot they were reversing to pick up the rest of the train.

Don 
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