139: Lionel Artist Angela Trotta Thomas

What is it like to paint official portraits of Lionel Trains? We are talking to Angela Trotta Thomas about her Lionel (and real train) paintings, her process of creating a scene, how she infuses her work with nostalgia, and her advice for getting into painting.
See more of Angela's paintings: www.angelatrot...
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Cool video 😊

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Wonderful interview, Nick! I always enjoyed Angela Trotta Thomas' Lionel train artwork. Her images always looked nice on the covers of the Lionel catalogs, very realistic looking. My favorite piece of artwork she did so far was for the Lionel Volume 2 Catalog of 2000. On a different topic, this one being about future guests you could interview, one idea for someone in the rail community you could interview would be Paul Chamberlain, the director of Microsoft Train Simulator. I would be curious to know some behind-the-scenes information he can give if you interview him about MSTS like what the reasons were behind the chosen trains and routes for the default selection of that game and other trivia about that game that we might not already know about it, maybe even explanations about the goofs and Easter eggs in that game (for its default content). Merry Christmas to you and your family!