This is looking west toward the rest of Rawlins, the Mercantile Co. and buildings, or the computer drawn (or cut and pasted from computer images) backdrop. Instead of a new Corvette I wanted, I hired a local artist to create the backdrop, which runs continuously around both the upper and lower levels of the layout, except for the no-scenery staging,and the back if the Cheyenne yard bench.
A New York modeler named John Busa scratch built our Cheyenne, Rawlins, and Rock Springs depots. Here at the
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View More Rawlins depot we have cut away the backdrop, so the street side of the model can be seen. Unfortunately, one as to stand on a step stool on the lower level floor to see it on that side, so hardly anyone notices the cut away backdrop, or if they do they don't look, largely because there is no sign and permanent step stool there. I am going to try to change that.
There are two retail oil distributors here but the second one is just to the right out of view. No mater the brand name on the local dealer's tank, it is Sinclair refined. This is a family joke. My pipefitter dad moved mom an baby me to Cheyenne to work work building the Frontier refinery in Cheyenne in 1942 for the war effort. He got a kick out of the trucks that hauled gas to local stations. Frontier trucks delivered in the day, other brands were delivered at night, filled from the same refinery tank.
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