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@Yves posted:

Could you post a picture or two of the junction between the two modules? It is hard to see how they connect.

The result is incredibly beautiful and realistic.

Yves, it uses an interface that is identical to all other sections, the scenery is completely finished while together and I used a very prototype sand bar as the division and I seal it with a hard shell of adhesive and basic scenery work to hide the division. Scenery is not foam rubber in reality and whenever possible I try to recreate scenery in fashion with the Europeans, they produce such a wonderful array of products that bring the 3D nature of the scenery we see in reality in miniature. I added a few pictures here showing the sections set up at a local show, Doug Gieger a very well known author and railroad enthusiast both scale and 1:1 was in bliss over the progress. Installed into a basement or portable it will always survive. 2EF43EF3-30F2-4542-96EE-760776EBA1C9919D1908-CAB6-4020-9834-9C26B09449F1

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Friends, Gerald Styles and John Johnson

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Doug Gieger and John Johnson

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This fellow is retired bridge civil engineer that worked the Rio Grande and Rock Island; he was stunned at the precision of the ‘working miniature’ status of this simulation. Most layouts the bridges are simply glued to resin cast piers or blocks of wood. We made this a 1/48 scale model; with a story and purpose. That’s the fun to me! I love the history.

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Bob Kjelland the chair of the upcoming 2023 O Scale National Convention was on hand for this debut this fall 2019 day. Fun times  

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I’ll never need to cut it up if I move or decide to rearrange my life. I’ve dismantled 4 home layouts in the last 10 years, and 1 club layout; everything I build from this point on will be movable, I am 47 and likely will move again in my life. And I don’t want a layout so big I can’t ever finish it. I enjoy my trains now and want to run my trains and anymore I prefer to do it with my son and not a huge club. It’s a leisure hobby I don’t want politics and don’t want interpersonal issues.

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