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Thanks Mark, Jim and Phil, glad you like the scenes.   Phil commented earlier about 'scenes to backdrops'.   It is a challenge, but I try to make everything blend and tie together as best as I can with the space provided due to large radius curves.  The photo below is my version of the Rogers Pass 'Cannaught Tunnel' , a scene transition located under the stairwell. To put things into perspective, I only had room to compress this area into 1 foot wide to also allow for human passage and include a wide sweeping curve just beyond , ( watch your head clearance) .   This area required the scenery to take a vertical stance!     But tunnels from one scene ''partition''  to another do work.   Concealing them I sometimes use a little common  trick with highway overpasses in those locations.   I've included a photo showing the 'commuter stop' of Eagle Pass connecting the outskirts to the city.   IMG_20240319_092544The roundhouse walls are a combination of 'foam core' and a 3 window wall casting from an old Korber kit of the Lionel Factory.    I made a rubber mold of one wall and cast it in a  2  part  ''plastic resin'' by Alumilite.   Their moto,  liquid to plastic in minutes, stands to hold its meaning.   Any bridge girders seen are courtesy of a similar made casting  offered through  Micro Mark.   The turntable bridge side are the same casting .    Finally, I need to ask Jim, the Delorean you spoke of, are we talking the  '' 1/43 model produced or a Prototype in a garage  ? ''   IMG_20240319_092249IMG_20240319_092348

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