As push is coming to shove financially, I’ve had to start paring down the fleet to help meet some basic expenses. Hopefully the light at the end of the tunnel IS another train!
Taking one last spin around the layout, Reading SD45’s 7601 and 7602 head east to Rutherford to be disbursed to their new owners. 7601 is headed to Alberta, Canada, and 7602 is going to a new owner in Texas. 12-15-09.
Here’s the final trip behind GP-9 #40, which is headed to a new home in Indiana.
and the rest of the album is here: GP-9 #40 Last Ride
Aside from one of the number boards on the nose being a little askew, I’m pretty happy with this spread. Took me about four hours to shoot 50 shots, and ended up with 40 that were usable. Who knows, maybe there’s another dull article about coal movements in there somewhere…
Nice pics, have you ever thought about submitting them to MR or RMC etc?? I suspect the money you’d get for having a pic published would be more than you’d get selling the engines.
I have submitted stuff, and I’ve had an article published in N Scale, which was quite lucrative, and a photo published in MR, which was pleasant, but not much more than a little beer money. I’ve got a couple of articles in the pipeline, just have to wrap them up.
The problem is with the magazines you get paid when you get published. The bills don’t wait! It took about 3 months to get the article in, (I believe MR does pay for the rights to an article, but it can be years before it sees the light of day… how often do we see an article about a layout that’s been torn down, or by an author that’s passed on to the big train room in the sky…)
I do have a piece on Mr. Sperandeo’s desk for consideration, but so far I’ve not heard anything other than a very nice note acknowledging the receipt.
I looked into submitting something to the new e-zine that Joe Fugate puts out, but as a start up, the pay isn’t quite competitive yet.
It’s time to thin the herd a little bit anyway, and there are thoughts of a total rework of the concept rolling around in the back of my head.
