While exploring in Omaha a couple weeks ago, I spotted an active spur off the BNSF I'd never noticed before, about a half-mile west of the Amtrak depot.  It became even more interesting after researching later via Google Maps and realizing it was a present-day switchback serving Nox Crete Products, in an area where a switchback didn't appear to be necessary as a result of grades.

Another project!  The guys in the Freemo group really REALLY want a yard to be able to support some operations.  Up until now, we have pretty much been in "proof of concept" mode and getting all the modules bullet proofed.  We have attracted some new active participants and now have a pretty decent length of run and variety of industries, and a couple of other yards that are under construction.

So you think you can't paint a backdrop it took me 8 tries and lots of YouTube videos to learn the techniques to paint what I needed. Also lots of photos of the Colorado Front Range, I got to spent a lot of time there in the last few months. But here you go a few pictures of my efforts. This is over 12 feet long only 278 more feet to go but I got this done in 2 day at very relaxed pace not much more then 6 hours of work the rest was drying time. 7 photos and a sample of the fore ground work to follow soon.