Okay, I’ve got a few more photos worth sharing that show the models that I had been working on to take along to the 2015 Milwaukee Road Historical Association 2015 conference in Yakima. As seen previously, here is Bipolar E1 in the experimental Olympian Hiawatha paint scheme, this time from a different angle:
And here’s his buddy, the Skytop sleeper/observation car #16 “Gold Creek” in the 1948 paint scheme with gold lettering, additional maroon band and gray roof. I did a lot of work on this car: decals, dull coats, gloss coats, added stainless fluting to the rear, etched stainless lettering for “Olympian Hiawatha”, painted grabirons, interior partition, window glazing with Lee Filters #730 Liberty Green, and lightly weathered the trucks, which I swapped in from a Walthers car for better looks.
When running around Seattle’s Union Station on the unelectrified tracks, the fellow below would do the pulling: an NW2 switcher. It’s a custom painted (not by me) Kato shell on a Broadway Limited SW2 frame which has sound and DCC.
Below we have some trailers for TOFC service (Trailer on Flat Car), as they would have looked in 1980, right at the end of the Milwaukee. I did all decaling with Microscale decals, dull coat, light dirt weathering, and black diesel exhaust.
And one more close-up of Gold Creek. Check out that stainless lettering. Sharp!
Tags: f/1.8, Milwaukee Road, photography, trains
