©
modelcrafters@yahoo.com: ModelCrafters 1st Transcontinental Railroad • Winnemucca Depot Diorama • showing a tiny segment of this great venture by the Central Pacific Railroad in 1868 Winnemucca, Nevada
©
modelcrafters@yahoo.com: ModelCrafters 1st Transcontinental Railroad • Winnemucca Depot Diorama • showing the panorama of cars and figures.
©
modelcrafters@yahoo.com: ModelCrafters 1st Transcontinental Railroad • Winnemucca Depot Diorama • showing the reference photograph I used that was taken by Alfred A. Hart in 1868.
©
modelcrafters@yahoo.com: ModelCrafters 1st Transcontinental Railroad • Winnemucca Depot Diorama • showing the “Hotel” I kit-bashed from a BTS kit of a house with a front porch.
©
modelcrafters@yahoo.com: ModelCrafters 1st Transcontinental Railroad • Winnemucca Depot Diorama • showing the scratch-built double water tank with metal spout and chain counter weights with pulleys.
©
modelcrafters@yahoo.com: ModelCrafters 1st Transcontinental Railroad • Winnemucca Depot Diorama • showing one of the reference photographs taken by Alfred A. Hart in 1868 that I used to scratch-build the water tanks.
©
modelcrafters@yahoo.com: ModelCrafters 1st Transcontinental Railroad • Winnemucca Depot Diorama • showing the Water Car
©
modelcrafters@yahoo.com: ModelCrafters 1st Transcontinental Railroad • Winnemucca Depot Diorama • showing the workers refueling the “Atlantic” with water and fire wood.
©
modelcrafters@yahoo.com: ModelCrafters 1st Transcontinental Railroad • Winnemucca Depot Diorama • showing the lumber loading man busy loading the CPRR Box Car no. 312.
©
modelcrafters@yahoo.com: ModelCrafters 1st Transcontinental Railroad • Winnemucca Depot Diorama • showing the link & pin man working and the hotel guest observing.
©
modelcrafters@yahoo.com: ModelCrafters 1st Transcontinental Railroad • Winnemucca Depot Diorama • showing the loaders busy loading cross ties onto the CPRR Flat Car no. 121.
©
modelcrafters@yahoo.com: ModelCrafters 1st Transcontinental Railroad • Winnemucca Depot Diorama • Ground cover landscape inserted into the framed base board.
©
modelcrafters@yahoo.com: ModelCrafters 1st Transcontinental Railroad • Winnemucca Depot Diorama • Close-up of the gully crossing on the ground cover landscape.
©
modelcrafters@yahoo.com: ModelCrafters 1st Transcontinental Railroad • Winnemucca Depot Diorama • This is the framed base board that the Ground cover landscape is inserted into.
©
modelcrafters@yahoo.com: ModelCrafters 1st Transcontinental Railroad • Winnemucca Depot Diorama • Engraved brass plate installed on the facing of the framed base board.