"mark" <whitroth@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>> 2. I once managed a string of company-owned gas stations for
>> Atlantic-Richfield, and I'm here to tell you that the only gas station
>> that was ever that neat and clean was one that had opened the very same
>> day. It needs weathering and grime!
>
> My reaction, exactly. It's cleaner than a movie set! Where's the grease,
> the
> dirt, the grime, smeared all over the shop, and hand dirt on the pumps,
> and
> soot on the building from smoke....
>
> mark "grime does pay"
Yup.
I was watching a guy running a freight train on the Tehachapi layout at
the
San Diego Model Railroad Museum*
http://www.sdmodelrailroadm.com/tehachapi_pass.html
last month, and it
was
quite revealing.
The layout is state-of-the-art DCC, the scenery is spectacular, and the
(steam) loco in question had a full -and very effective- sound
installation
and was being run at absolutely prototypical speeds, the operator
observing
all grade crossings with the proper whistle signals, etcetera, yet the
illusion was completely shattered by the fact that the loco itself -as
well
as the rest of the train- looked as if it had rolled out of the paint shop
ten minutes before I got there.
I've been trainwatching for something like 61 years now, and so far I have
yet to see my first clean freight train.
-Pete
* Follow the links and look at the pictures of the layout. It's really
something!
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