Just found this page depicting mostly New York dioramas by Alan Wolfson. While he does not seem to be a model railroader, his models are just amazing.
http://alanwolfson.net/index.htm
Be sure to click for the larger pics!. Jose.

While I was heavily involved with this hobby in my younger college years where life is a bit more stable and time is a bit more superfluous than it is now, I discovered vehicle modeling can indeed be a hobby all unto itself.

Sadly, most of these pictures were taken in the Intel PC Pocket camera days...so they're a bit grainy!

So lets blow some dust off the old kilobytes, I know they're all here somewhere!!

How about an experiment in crowdsourcing?  I finished a new industry spur for 8th Sub customer Associated Foods, which was relocated to give the structure a better configuration than my initial design.  Associated received various food products in reefers and boxcars.  To add to the modern (1980~ish) industrial park look of the area, I scratchbuilt a neighbor for it from styrene and Pikestuff parts, inspired by various rail-served customers along the former WP in Reno, NV (EDIT - the model location is in Utah).  It still needs signs, weathering, and Dullcote.

I am currently laying the ballast. I was not happy with the results and started to pester Woodland Scenics. Then it occurred to me that maybe my results were comparable to that of others. There is a feature to Easy Model Railroad Inventory that allows me to save pictures on my hard drive and another to save links to videos and pictures on the internet.

So I started going through them, looking only at the track and ballast. Looking at mine from the side it looks great, As did almost all the photos and videos. The ballast looked for the most part level, and smooth,