Benson, Arkansas

[broadoak]

This beautiful Green Mountain Alco RS1 is another of Andy’s models this one is not DCC fitted though. He bought it when on a visit to the States. I think the livery suits it very well. She runs as well as she looks. The real railroad is a preserved passenger carrying railroad in Vermont.

In the first picture she is seen in the yard at Colonel's Crossing.
In the second shot she is just leaving the flour mill head shunt behind the service station at Benson.

Peter M

[broadoak]

The loco featured this time is a little more up to date an EMD SW1500 she was purchased from BN and then checked over mechanically in our own shops. Finding all was well a coat of black paint on the cab sides hid her original identity. She was then put to work switching at a large feed mill.
The I&W logo on the cab is plastic sheet and is easily removed. This is used as some customers don’t want their customers to know the locomotive is leased to them. Complicated but it all makes sense to me, see what I mean about imagination.









Peter M

[broadoak]

While enjoying an operating session I took a few more photos of my elderly Athearn Blue Box EMD SD45 4200 hp V20 engine. I have now added sunshades, screen wipers, mu hoses and a plough, not the correct one but near enough and it was all I had to hand at the time. The loco looks a bit more work stained as well having given it a thin wash of grimy black.











Peter M

[broadoak]

The SP SD45 working in the yard at Benson looking like she had just been used as a member of a mid train helper set.

Peter M

[Blaster]

Very nice photos! And your layout is very creative. Thanks for posting.

[Chops]

Simply superb. I've been to Arkansas but rarely, but you have really captured the ambience.