That's what I call a new car lot look. But they did a crummy job of weathering!

Dan

I know! It's like they took them out of the box and straight onto the rails. Maybe they have decoder work to finish first.

It seems odd that the loco's have no weathering done yet the weathering of everything else in the photos is very realistic!  The detail on the track work is amazing, very prototypical.

Those are some great trees too!  Must be SuperTrees!

Did you ever think that they wanted you to notice the locomotive first, Blue? The weathering will get there anyway.

Irv

If you want weathering, just wait. It will come, like it or not!

If you want weathering, just wait. It will come, like it or not!

Joe Fugate

Now if only my rollng stock would weather itself like those will!

Joe we should be so lucky. Just think automatic weathering, just 6 times around the pike and presto your engines and cars are weathered. Some day maybe.

Dan

Consider your layout prototypical? Does your rolling stock self-weather just by rolling on the rails? The next level in realism - working dirt, soot, grease and grime! When your wife complains about putting your clothes in her washer because of all the filth on them from the recent operating session then you know you have reached prototypical realism.

Naw, come to think of it, it would just be one more expensive item to buy from the Walthers catalog. Heaven forbid the smudge and yuck not be actual scale smudge and yuck!

Well, if you wanted to do it like the Southern Pacific, just install a long tunnel on your layout - and light a smudge pot beneath it.

For extra realism you could set up a mister filled with "wet" water to simulate rain.

You don't need to go that far, Jeff. Just extend your tracks out the nearest window and into the yard. Thewn you can have your trains run through the yard in all sorts of weather and I'll bet you'll get your rolling stock to evetually get more than enough weathering from the elements.

Of course you can always take garden railroading.

Irv