| I submitted this photo to both the Walthers catalog "Magic of Model Railroading" contest, and to the NMRA 2006 calendar. I got very lucky -- I won 3rd place in the contest and it was selected to be in the calendar. |
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| “BV SW7 at creamery” – The early morning sun is barely over the horizon but the Bona Vista Railroad’s SW7 is already hard at work dropping a cut of cars at the Farmers Gilt Edge Creamery on Gerry Leone’s HO-scale railroad. |
| The scene is Froton
on my layout, looking south.
The shot was taken with my Olympus C-4000 4-megapixel digital camera. Just like last year's calendar shot, this scene was lit by a single 75-watt incandescent bulb which was mounted on the ceiling. The exposure was probably around 10 seconds. If you look directly beneath the first yellow reefer you'll see a little man in a brown suitcoat. That's the guy from the cover shot of the January 2006 Railroad Model Craftsman article I wrote about market lights... I forgot to remove him before I took this picture. The shot is completely unretouched, except for the exhaust coming from the engine. The engine is a custom painted Broadway Ltd. SW7. The white building in the background is the Farmers Gilt Edge Creamery, a scratchbuilt structure I outlined in an article in the May 2003 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman. Igot's Gas, scratchbuilt from an article in the December 1996 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman and made famous at the 2001 NMRA convention by Sam Swanson, is on the left. |