@coach joe posted:Mel, great job on the pedestrian crosswalk. Is that scribed sheeting or individual strips and how did you level it to the top of the rails?
Joe,
It's actually a narrow street and vehicle ramp which is the entrance to the small downtown area that I had room to model. The layout terrain and elevations are made from extruded pink foam that is lightweight and easy to carve. The cobblestone streets are from sheets of embossed paper that were cut into sections to simulate the various patterns in which cobblestones were laid, then painted and weathered. The O gauge wood planking across the tracks (available straight and curved from Blair Line) was trimmed to size leaving room for wheel flanges - the way it was done on real railroads. The center rail protrudes very slightly above the planking.
MELGAR
