Morning In The Shops

With Covid19 keeping us all home on these beautiful days, I started going through some of the photos taken on my old Atlanta Locomotive Works Diorama. I built the scene originally as a place to take photos of my locomotive projects. However, rebuilding it to include a turntable is what set me off on my modular layout build. 

Just for fun, lets wind the clock back and take a look at the Atlanta Shops. 

 As far as models go, the scene was very small. It was built on a 2x1' foam base with wood side walls. The shop building itself was made from spare Revell "Superior Bakery" wall segments. The same wall segments that would go on to be sourced for the Marceline Roundhouse. There was very little interior detailing. Rather just shapes painted black to give the impression of size and mass. 

The diorama was easy to take outside and pose equipment on. These photos are rather old, and show some of these models in prior shapes and detail packages. Some models, such as the Telegraph, have been rebuilt entirely into new locomotives. 

Still, it helped to take one back to sunny summer days. When the air was full of smoke and cinders. 

Looking at these old photos builds enthusiasm for the current projects. The new layout will be far more then just a diorama, and hopefully scenes like these will be seen again on the W&A RR.