John Allen had lots of little tidbits like that on his layout.I think it’s healthy to go a little wild in the detailing so long as it’s not overdone. I especially liked his biological switcher(a harnessed dinosaur shoving boxcars) Rob
I can tell you this story. We were working for NS and coming from Chicago to Ft .Wayne. Well going thru Knox Indiana, The engineer shouts to me, “Ya see that dog on the northside of the tracks up ahead!” I told him, “Yes” Well we thought the dog would just cross the tracks before we got up there too him. As we got closer to him, He started to cross about the sametime the Engineer laid on the horn to spook him. The dog started to run down the middle of the tracks with us following him. We chased that dog for a 1/2 mile until he peeled off into a cornfield!!! I have never seen a dog do anything like that before. Kevin