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Cool site for reference/research

edited November 2011 in Reference and Research
I stumbled onto a neat collection of pictures and reference info tonight that I wanted to share. I used to find prototype pictures boring. But when it comes to putting a scene together, I'm realizing their value over pictures of models (you never know if a modeler got it "right" or what he might have missed). This site has some of both.
http://www.buffalocreekandgauley.com/index.html
The logging stuff is found mostly here: http://www.buffalocreekandgauley.com/STRUCTURES/SWANDALE/Swandale.html
and here: http://www.buffalocreekandgauley.com/OPERATIONS/ERCLOps/ERCLOps.html
What's nice is a lot of the pictures can be enlarged, and they also have a good amount of old color pictures--those bad, 1950's & 60's color pictures. Don't these almost look like scenes from a layout? Nope. All prototype shot in old color film:

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I just spent an hour browsing through these pages.
Have fun!

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