Once, this Lima engine had wheels and even a tender but now it is just a plastic shell...

So I decided that, given it will never work as a locomotive again, I could use it as scenery for my layout project. I also used it as a good base to practice weathering. I’ve added rust and moss to the locomotive, but it needs a little bit more rust.

At some point I’ll make new frames for it and prop it up on some sleepers to make it look like it had been stripped for parts in the past, before being forgotten in the corner of the sidings. Since Castle Rock has so many running locomotives this sad fate is more common than you’d think, with several tank engines and diesels left lying around the whole railway.