Model Railroading on the Cheap

Another image I have always been fond of is the Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco barns. They have been seen for over a century in the mid-west along well traveled rural highways, an item that I consider to be American Folk Art. I have photographed several of those barns if found with a clear shot for the camera un-encumbered by shrubbery, hanging wires, or machinery setting around in front of them and there are hundreds of others on the web. (Google Mail Pouch Barns and Wikipedia) I have made several of these barns from folded paper printed with the home computer. I even did my own artwork for some of them.

I did my first Mail Pouch Barn in about 1980 using the technology of…