I have made some very good progress on the Rio Grande switching layout over the last 8 months or so and today had some time to reflect on that progress by looking at some photos I have taken over these intervening months. To see one's layout go from a foam/plaster shell to a scenic, realistic landscape is sometimes very mind boggling. Just like you sometimes see photos of old an town in the past, with a photo taken hundreds of years later then have someone take the same photo in the same spot in an effort to document the changes, sometimes dramatic. In that spirit I have tried to do this using my layout.
So I took some older photographed scenes on my layout taken months and months ago during the earlier stages of scenery building and placed the same locos and rolling stock in the same general location on the layout and trying to reproduce the same lighting and angle of the photograph. Goal here is to see bring alive the scene transformation in the two photos.
Feel free to add your transformations to the thread. I think it would provide inspiration to our fellow forum members who are in the midst of their own empire building. Enjoy!
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