TRflyer, You're quite right, we did stray a bit didn't we? But I was encouraged! Just one more post back to our strayed to topic. I thought rather than have to search for the contest photo to compare teh proto photo to, I would post teh shot here. Then I thought why not reshoot the scene without the local down below and with the bus in the photo instead. Couldn't do that for the contest since the background isn't finished. THEN I thought, I have an Erie loco I built 25 years ago in a box somewhere, why don't I find it and use it in the photo. Well, a half hour later I found it and went ahead and reshot the scene. Now I'm really bummed because the bridge is WAY high! But like you Val, it is going to stay that way! BTW, that's an Athearn 2-8-2 in the background, sans boiler and tender shell. Installed sound and wanted to balance weight but wasn't able to. Pulls 12 cars up my 1 1/2% grade, it'll have to be good enough.