Virtual RPM (RPM = Railroad Prototype Modeling)

Here's a thread to share your prototype modeling. Share completed and in-process models that reflect prototype locomotives, rolling stock, structures, and scenes. This is open to any scale, just as long as the modeling is following a prototype.

Eric

Hi everyone

I am building a stub end switching layout that is 5' x 10" in N Scale. It models an industrial complex that is served by the railroad soit  isn't a freight yard as such. It is served by regular freights - short and all cars for one or other of the industries. It then takes the loads/empties back out they way it came.

I'm trying to model the Rio Grande Scenic RR that operates out of Alamosa, Colorado. I'd like to print my own N-scale decals, but i need to find the font used. The passenger cars seem pretty easy, but the locos have the classic Rio Grande in a gold color. Any suggestions?

My plan is to paint and weather one of the red MKT GP7s as it would have appeared around 1975.  Yes, the Katy began painting their locomotives green with yellow stripes in the early seventies, but there were still some red ones around that hadn't made it to the paint shop.  Great photos of them can be found if you search the web.