First of a few posts building out Grosmont Station and rendering various locos. This image depicts an LMS Coronation Class locomotive - City of Manchester.
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Very nice work! Looking forward to the other posts. 
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This next render depicts a BR Class 40 easing over the crossing in front of the Grosmont Station building. Grosmont Station has some beautiful stone buildings and also a collection of small wooden huts serving as a ticket office, a team room, etc.
The model of the main station building is not yet complete - the windows don’t yet have frames and glass panes.
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Another update this time showing a Black 5 - Stanier’s classic locomotive - passing over the Grosmont Station crossing on the North York Moors Railway.
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A general view of the current state of the station. The early morning sun is lighting up some of the station buildings and the moors rising to the north.
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Some modifications to composition including the steam escaping from the safety valve to bring the eye into a single point of attention.
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Ideally, with a reasonable environment model, one could take portraits of various subjects at many different locations. This was a quick render of a Stanier Black 5 taken from a position below the larger signal structure. The shadow of the signal adds texture to the locomotive.
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This is the first completed view taken from this scene. I’ve edited the image in Gimp to blend different exposures to help bring a bit more attention to the foreground locomotive - the Coronation class Duchess of Sutherland, 6233.
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Looking good!!
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Experimenting with a wider view and a new loco - British Rail Class 37.
An important discovery - adaptive subdivisions don’t work (as expected) with linked assets, so I’ve materialized the instance of the building on the immediate left of the loco rather than keep it as a linked asset.
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Started experimenting with more realistic people. This chap helps add some narrative and even a sense of urgency. The loco is a Class 37.
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In this latest render, I think we need a little moonlight. Or, more likely, maybe there are some electric yard-lights fixed to those poles, and maybe to another one out-of-frame in front. The two locomotives on the left, in particular, seem to be getting “muddied together.” And maybe there’s another similar frame to the right of the “steamer.”
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Certainly something is missing to focus the attention of the viewer. An extended version of this render actually shows the sky as being still quite bright.