Quote from the Rules “If you choose your own, then you’ll need to send a publishable photo of the prototype train and additional information about it: where it ran, when it was in service, its consist”
This is the hard part of the rules. I have built my Pike Sized Passenger train , I have found a photo of train in another railroad Mag…This train was run in the fall of 1972 (I was 5 at this time) So I have no way of ever going out to take a picture of this train or evan going to the state to take a picture of this Pike-Sized Passenger Train.
My ? is so how in the world can you enter if you did not take the photo and can not contact the person who took the photo??? I have the train running on my railraod but just can not get the photo…So what do most people do? Not evan enter???
Try to find the railroad’s historical society and see if they have photos of the train you’re trying to model. If they do, they might have some photos they can send.
I feel your pain … but cannot do anything to ease it, alas. [xx(]
I was not seriously going to enter the contest but did want to put together my own contribution for future modeling project purposes. My problem: I can find a text description, but no photos. (Pictures from 1900 are not easy to come by.) The closest I got was a builder’s photograph of one car, and the picture of a postcard representation of the train.
I guess I’ll just have to [C=:-)] something up as I go along, and forego the $1000 (or however much) Grand Prize. [sigh]
The person who took the photo is Paul Walters…Photo was taken in 1972 and looks like he has a buddy Carl Graves. Any one heard of them? or know how to contact them? The funny thing is I have been running this same train on my SP Railroad for a few years now as somthing I just made up it’s small and fits. Well the other day I find a photo of this train (Prototype) I run and evan the 2 engine numbers are the same as what I have on both my 2 loco’s Strange luck or what I do not know but it’s real cool to see somthing I made up to fit my railroad is a real train that did run in Fll of 1972…! time to buy that winning ticket…
I found it interesting that the prototype information is limited to 500 words. To me that is the most important part. I would rather have at least 1/2 the information be about the prototype. From that information I could build my own rather than having to re-research before parroting someone else’s interpretation.