Where do you think they took the photographs for the backdrops in these model scenes?
near Needles, CA??
CC
By the way, I do not know the correct answer, so there will not be a winner. I guess I could try sending an e-mail to Walthers.
It may be. I have never been there, so I am not sure. A thought did occur to me. I remember reading in the instruction sheet for Walther’s North Island Refinery (out of production) that it was based on a prototype in Wyoming, so I wonder if that is where the photograph was taken at.
I doubt it. I have seen 90% of this state, and never seen it that bare. There is not enough sagebrush [:P]
Unless it is up around the Gilette area (Ahem, Murphy) it makes me think it looks alot like the area in some of Chad’s Pics in Cali.
Looks more like the Las Vegas area, more specifically, along the UP at the Cal-Nev border. I dont remember the mountians in the background at Needles; I seem to recall the mountains being further away in Needles. Of course, I have never spent much time just soaking up the ambiance in that part of the desert…[:P]
Too lush and green for Gillette [;)]. Most of northeast Wyoming has a reddish clay, that shows through the lush,dense, undergrowth. I’d vote for somewhere really dry, like Nevada.
Yeah, I have never been to the northeast corner of the state. Never been as far east past Sheridan and never been as far north as Douglasso im missing out on that whole area up there. But I have seen photos!
…I’ll go along with the post that doubts mountains like that are near Needles…I’ve been there but it’s been several decades ago…By the way it was 120 degrees the day I was there.
I’d give a guess of the area around Kingman, Az…They certainly do have scenes like that in that area.
IIRC Walthers sold generic background murals for model railroaders. It’s entirely possible that that is what was used as a backdrop for the catalog photos.
Mojave desert. Probably not taken near any real tracks. I would guess somewhere north of Bissell.
I will go along with Chad. Looks like the south end of the Sierra’s (Owens Valley area?).