Alco PA Unit

This Alco PA Unit was inspired first when I went to a slideshow about the Delaware and Hudson Passanger units. There was a book with lots of good photos so I got it, and decided to make with Mlcad so that I would not suffer from want of bricks.

I raytaced some pics 1/3 of the way and 2/3s of the way through construction. It should be able to go around real Lego curves but I am not sure if the from magnet is the correct hight. It uses 1 x 3 arches (like in the Super Chief) for the nose and has a lighting brick inside the yellow window. For the foremost grill I have a piece of gray fence with a 2 x 4 plate in it. Also, the 1 x 2 plate inside the 1 x 2 window is just there is show where a little piece of paper with the number would go in the actual thing and the empty hand-clips are for six-long rods which are not there due to me not having updated my ldraw dir with new parts.

Probably the most detailed part is th front wheelset with its upside-down fence piece. Both wheelsets are supposed to be black but I have not got aroung to fixing that yet. You can get the dat here and the ldr here (both are incomplete.)
As you can probably see I haven't yet mastered POV-Ray, It's just sort of trial and error. Below is something that happened while fussing with The Gimp. BTW, Email Me and tell me what you think.

backgrounds courtesy of http://www.lugnet.com/fibblesnork/lego/backgrounds/