Rene Gourley- Rene, same with the Eastern White Pine trees. Glad you took notice. How can you model Maine (the Pine Tree State!) without authentic Eastern White Pine? These are hand-made. I demonstrated the process in the Allagash scenery video V2. Basically these are basswood dowels, pre-drilled and the branches are from a plant called Caspia (floral store). The trees are hand built branch by branch and flocked with green electrostatic needles. I work with Carol Vreeland of Sterling Models to get these custom-built by the dozen.I designed the prototype, Carol cranks them out and then I flock them. I usually get 50 per year.
http://sterlingmodels.com/
HO - Western New York - 1987 era
"When your memories are greater than your dreams, joy will begin to fade."
Shocking photo. For those who didn't spend hours riding up and down the short electrified commuter lines around Philadelphia in the days of the MP-54, I can see how many readers could just accept this really striking photo without any comment. I got to ride the front vestibule with the engineer just a few times, but for me- this photo really captures everything but the aroma of the hot traction motors of these cars as the little commuter trains raced up and down these branches. The scene probably didn't change much from the 1930s up to about 1968 when Penn Central began painting some of these cars green instead of tuscan red. The composition pulled my eye right into the photo- This would be a good shot even if this had been 1:1 scale, so this is an excellent piece of modeling. Many of the little local lines in this area still run- many of the PRR lines now connected to the former Reading tracks, but they are still a pleasant ride. Nice work.
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Alagash Railroad
Please tell me where Mike got his pine trees.They look close enough
to use in Southern layouts.
Thanks
Photo feature
Hi Joe, just a note to say thanks for featuring my St Martins photo, it's a real honour.
Cheers
Tim
Pine trees
Previous comment from Mike:
HO - Western New York - 1987 era "When your memories are greater than your dreams, joy will begin to fade."Wow
Great shots as always. Tim Nicholson's work is very good and certainly worthy of a feature article in the future!
Lee
My Flickr website with layout photos
MP-54s around Philly
Shocking photo. For those who didn't spend hours riding up and down the short electrified commuter lines around Philadelphia in the days of the MP-54, I can see how many readers could just accept this really striking photo without any comment. I got to ride the front vestibule with the engineer just a few times, but for me- this photo really captures everything but the aroma of the hot traction motors of these cars as the little commuter trains raced up and down these branches. The scene probably didn't change much from the 1930s up to about 1968 when Penn Central began painting some of these cars green instead of tuscan red. The composition pulled my eye right into the photo- This would be a good shot even if this had been 1:1 scale, so this is an excellent piece of modeling. Many of the little local lines in this area still run- many of the PRR lines now connected to the former Reading tracks, but they are still a pleasant ride. Nice work.
-Victor Roseman