Experiment with tinfoil

[jbvb]

Here's the original photo I cropped to show the canvas better:

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It shows a lot of long-gone detail I saw in the '60s, and want to model someday, including the pedestrian overpass. That may benefit from looking at European N-scale bridges...  I found this scan of the original photo on a Schenectady NY history site.

[Deem]

Here's the original photo I cropped to show the canvas better:

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It shows a lot of long-gone detail I saw in the '60s, and want to model someday, including the pedestrian overpass. That may benefit from looking at European N-scale bridges...  I found this scan of the original photo on a Schenectady NY history site.

It is an awesome shot, James. And whoever took the pick had a knack for composition. Like the detail of the trackage also.

[jbvb]

The closest track is a middle siding, then the B&M's WB main toward North Station in Boston with stone ballast, then the west siding. At that time the main might have been 100 lb, the rest 85. Photographer was standing on the EB main to Lynn and Portsmouth, NH (to Portland ME until 5 years earlier)

[ACL1504]

Very realistic look. I'll have to try the tinfoil trick.

Tom