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[Jbub]

Next to the coupler? Possibly an airhose?

[Iain]

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[Cajonpassfan]

Eh?

Apparently lame attempt at humor I meant the coupler...it looks so big and bulky compared to the fine detail on the car.
Otto K.

[johnb]

Scratch built the Playa Desnuda Freight Station and D'Amato Lumber...

D'Amato Lumber, in the background, is based on Fisher Lumber in Santa Monica, CA.

Here is the freight station and the lumber company in the same picture when I replicated a Pacific Electric excursion from February 1953.

And here they are in their normal location

[Santa Fe Guy]

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Another loco I painted, decaled and weathered for a friends Mexican RR.
Rod.

[Mike the Modeler]

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[svedblen]

Nice Mike!

[Mike the Modeler]

Nice Mike!

Thank you.

[peteski]

Apparently lame attempt at humor I meant the coupler...it looks so big and bulky compared to the fine detail on the car.
Otto K.

Photo clearly showed giant couplers on both ends.  The lame part was that you only mentioned lower left. If you wrote "extreme lower left and right of the photo" it would have been clearer (and more humorous).

Personally I don't mind the standard MTL N scale couplers bring oversize for the sake of reliable operation. But that is my own personal opinion. For a beauty-shot, MTL TSCs would have been better.

[chicken45]

AH. Makes sense to me now.

Yeah. I've come to terms with N scale couplers instead of Z scale ones. I tried to run Z scale couplers on my F25s and turns out...I can't run them at all on the wild west that is NTRAK.

It looks great, though. Maybe I'll go with True Scale couplers for this coal drag.

[Spades]

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Mike

Reilly like your work any chance of more photos?

G

[SP-Wolf]

Here is a yard office I scratch built. Sorry, for tilted photos.





Thanks,
Wolf

[Cajonpassfan]

Photo clearly showed giant couplers on both ends.  The lame part was that you only mentioned lower left. If you wrote "extreme lower left and right of the photo" it would have been clearer (and more humorous).
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Lol Pete, you're right of course, and I would have had I seen the right side.
(My iPad has a habit of cutting off the right side of the screen).

But humor aside, it is very interesting how great modeling emphasizes things that are wrong or oversize, and how close to scale details like couplers, steps and grabs give our little models a sense of great mass. Fun stuff!
Otto

[p51]

Scratch-built and weathered stuff:

[wazzou]

Here is one that is pretty much scratch built to modify a kit that makes it mostly unrecognizable.
The dock portion is entirely built from scratch.