I recently finished building a Grandt Line O-scale "Pando" steel section car shed (the model is based on one at Pando, CO on the Tennessee Pass route), which I installed on my Rio Grande layout complete with a
Fairmont speeder from Wiseman Models sitting on light rail in front of the shed. I took a guess at some of the details and also the safety orange color of the speeder. Today, on Youtube, I found a Rio Grande
safety film from the 1940s with a couple of scenes showing the right and wrong way to load a speeder with tools and then get it on to the mainline properly. The shed and the speeder and the whole installation
in the film looked exactly like the what I had just added to my layout -- a really good feeling that I got it right.
This safety film shows a lot of re-enacted section-car mishaps and other bad practices leading to injury or death (management seems to have
busted up a lot of section cars in the filming).
Rio Grande Railroad: Use Your Head! - 1940's Train Safety Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42
