OK, everybody agrees about the trees and background being real. But there was a mix of guesses about the loco. For the true answer, go about halfway down the page on the web site: http://www.readingnorthern.com/photos.shtml …to the section with the heading “Engine Painting”, and look for the thumbnail that matches this photo.
Some achieve greatness by making models that look like the real thing. Others take the opposite approach, starting with the prototype…
Quite obviously, it is real.
CNJ831
It sure looks real,but with the engine painted like that,it’s got to be a model!
may be it is a model loco in front of a real wooded area
Click to enlarge the photo. Looks to me like paint equipment and cans in the foreground. I’d say they were in the process of repainting the locomotive. I vote for real. But I’d love to be able to make trees like that.
Regards
Ed
I’m with Ed on this one. Real.
Happy MRRing
Model
The loco appears to me to be one of those meter guage conversions performed on former CSX units for use in Brazil, something odd about that shadowed running gear. If so, I vote it as the real deal.
Looks real to me.
Stan.
Think the background is real, but pretty sure diesel is a model. A better shot of the couplers would tell me for sure.
real photo,wires and tree shadows. Only the shadow knows.
I vote real. The masking on the window looks to real. What I would like to know is why are they painting it outside?
My guess is that it is a composite with a model loco and a real setting. The give-away for me is the power wires. For the resolution inherent in the photo, the wires are too ‘defined’, and don’t exhibit the difraction that would be visible in an image taken from closer up, or from farther away with a CCD-equipped camera (i.e.- digital).
An old saying here, If it has Kadee’s, it is a model.
I’m going with the ‘composite’ crowd. That looks like a good Photoshop job. No way are those trees in the background not real, or a photo of the real thing. And the paint cans and equipment looks real too. But the loco - something about the handrails… plus the loco seems less ‘detailed’ than the background trees, which leads me to believe the loco is a model.
–Randy
model w/ real tree background
Something just isn’t quite right. The trees and the foreground appear somewhat out of proportion. Also, the front track’s rail appears pretty heavy, like code 100 in HO scale.
It looks as if it has Kadee’s .
Shadows on the ground match too closely for the engine to be digitally added. The angels of all the shadows match too. I’m guessing real or a great digital photo editing job.
The spray pattern around the handrail by the cab window had me thinking it is a model, but who knows… Is Ken going to tell us someday??
I’m going with real. The shadows are too good. Even the horn is shaded right.