Re: PRR X23, X25 and B&O M-26 photo
Greg Martin
Hey Yuze Gize,
In my opinion it doesn't have to take a badly fired steam engine to have
the amount of crud, be it steam soot or spent diesel smoke to accumulate on the
top of a load of lumber like this. The scene posted ~appears~ to be Eugene and
the origin of the load might likely be one of SP's coastal lines like Tillamook,
and with the amount of precipitation and tunnels that the train
would have to traverse this could be a two day occurrence. The
precipitation embeds the crud into the top layers of lumber on it way to
Brooklyn then Eugene and then points eat over the tunnels on the Willamette past
or over Mount Ashland... Next Roseville and choose your poison
boys the Sierra Nevada's, the Great Salt Lake or the Tehachapi's. It
get cruddy, it stays cruddy and if you are a young man of twenty
something and you have to strip these cars and prep for the lumber
lines in the yard flipping the top boards and re-banding the units make you a
pretty grungy guy when you head home. SO believe it this is
weathering 101.
I will agree with Armand, weathering is a matter of choice but realism is
realism and as they say model from photos...
Greg Martin
Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through
it. Norman Maclean Tony Thompson writes:
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