Progress

 What a difference two weeks make! This is the same tunnel entrance as in the previous post, although I took the shot a bit closer, as in right at the edge of the finished scenery. The little engine is a scratchbuilt conversion from an HO Davenport switcher. It has a decoder and runs, but not well (neither did its HO incarnation!). I'll be adding more weathering in the coming days and she'll become part of the scenery - an abandoned logging diesel parked on a siding because the company couldn't get replacement parts. I'll do the same with another of my conversions at the logging camp. Why not make unused, unreliable engines part of the scenery, right? Even the real deal would have some sitting on a RIP track. And yes, the reefer says Rio Grande, a long ways away from Vancouver Island. It's a Bachmann 0n30 product that will, eventually, be repainted and receive "Salmon Run & Robson Landing Railway" markings. Oh, and I switched the enclosed water tower with the Salmon Arms Hotel, the blue-gray building at the right edge of the picture. Another scratchbuilt structure. I'll post a front view of it at some point.