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The Art of PrototypeModelingMichael CougillGo And See For YourselfIn the culture of a certain well-known Japanese corporationthere is a saying: Genshi Genbutsu (gen-she, gen-bootsue,the ”t” sound goes on the last syllable), or in English- goand see for yourself. This is a mindset of the company’sexecutives who feel that their knowledge of a situation willoften be incomplete and therefore, possibly even inaccurate,without first-hand knowledge. So they make a practice ofgoing to see for themselves what issues a supplier, or factoryworker might be facing. There is a parallel in modeling fromthe prototype. Our knowledge of a car, locomotive or locationwill be incomplete or inaccurate until if possible, we goand see it for ourselves.A case of going to see for myself, involved watching aswitching operation at a local plastics plant. It was one ofthose things where I had the time, the camera and the localshowed up while I was there. I finally hit a trifecta! What Ilearned was how much time and effort it takes for a crew tosort cars into the right order before spotting them at the plant. Iwatched as the locomotive would cherry-pick a single car outof a cut, park it somewhere and then go after another one andso on, until they were all in the order specified by the plant’straffic manager. This took a long time and the ground crewmust have walked for miles going back and forth to uncouplecars and throw switches. I watched this for a couple of hoursand they weren’t even close to being done when I left.This got me to thinking about how we do things on ourlayouts. Historically, the hobby focused on individual industriesand the more of them the merrier. Each layout had tohave a town, or preferably several, that featured one or moresmall industries that needed to be switched as the core ofoperating interest. This often led to the cliché of an industrythat was smaller than the train car spotted next to it. For thepast fifty to sixty years, this hasn’t really changed. We alwaysassume that more is better and stuff our layouts to the gillsaccordingly. What I saw last August proved to me that thisdoesn’t have to be the case. A single large industry, whendone right can be just as interesting to operate as a bunch ofsmaller ones, and probably will be more realistic too. I thinkthe implications for O Scale are that we can have a morefaithful interpretation of a scene in a smaller space withoutgiving up operational interest. This factory is seldom switchedthe same way twice. Traffic levels vary with the production ofthe plant. Sometimes they are switched twice a week, othertimes it’s less than once a week.Many times in this hobby, we assume that we know howthings are today or were done yesterday, but do we really?Often yes. However, there’s tons of stuff that I don’t knowabout trains or their operations and until I genshi genbutsu- go see for myself - my modeling won’t be as accurate as itcould be.Best regards,MikeuMay/June ’10 - O Scale Trains • 11
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