Pictures

For pictures of various rail sites I've visited, go to the Railfanning page.

Life-Like 0-6-0s double-heading a freight on the to-be-hidden track between Minneapolis and Seattle staging yards.	Staring at the nose of Burlington 0-6-0 #509 (Life-Like model) while it sits in Laurel MT.
Looking west from the east end of Laurel yard - July 2004. The gray gondola is an old Varney model; the caboose is a recent Walthers product, and the loco is a Broadway Limited CB&Q 2-8-2.	An overview of everything built as of July 2004. We see the Laurel / Lander peninsula stretching to the left from the foreground, and on the parallel wall is the hidden NP Mainline. Glenrock will be above the tracks.
Laurel, MT - CB&Q Heavy Mikado #5508 (a BLI model) drags a freight past a string of tank cars sitting on the passing siding. July 2004.	The first train arrives in the to-be town of Laurel, MT from Seattle staging on 30 March, 2004, immediately following the mainline being laid on that part of the layout.
Burlington Doodlebug #9099 (a Spectrum model) is pulling in to Laurel station from points East. The station is a scratchbuilt generic design of my own.	Laurel, MT - Tank cars sitting in front of the station. The little shed in the foreground, like the station, is a scratchbuilt model following generic design practices.
A shot of the end of the Laurel Depot at night (sort of - the reflection is the strobe on the camera, and everything in the distance was too far for the strobe to light. Doesn't look too bad, though)	An empty track in Minneapolis yard, with trains on either side. I messed around with this image a bit - deleted the basement wall and added a sky / hills backdrop.
A group of locos sitting on the tracks ready to depart in the deepest part of the night. In much of Wyoming you can still find darkness this deep - no lights of any kind for miles around.	Here's number 5000, a heavy Mike, sitting at the end of track on the helix. January 2006.
April 2006. Populating the Laurel platform and waiting room. While the waiting room isn't detailed, it will be lit. Seeing the people inside will make the depot look more detailed than it is (I hope).	April 2006. Early morning and passengers await the train.
Dawn is just beginning to break in Laurel as a heavy Mike stocks up on coal before heading into the roundhouse.	Here's an overall view of the layout as of May 25, 2007.