Haven’t posted much lately, but wanted to let you all know I am still kicking.
Anyway for the last two months I have been relocating the “town” area on the Ironbound RR. It’s heart-breaking because it really looked fine where it was! You can find pictures of the town as it was, on my layout website:
http://trainutz.com/ironbound.shtml
But I made a serious mistake when I originally framed the town platform area years ago. And so I am posting this to see if I can save anyone else the headache of making the same mistake. This applies to almost anything on a layout.
I located the town area at my eye-level. That is, I located the STREET-level at eye-level. But by the time I added structures, autos, li'l folks, poles, signs, etc... everything looked juuussst a bit too high, so visitors are unable to see the interior scenes and the tons of other custom details I worked on. I can not simply lower the platform... there’s a freight car storage yard located below it. So I decided to bite the bullet and move the town. But there was nowhere to move it TO! The layout is filled to the brim. So I have been busy engineering a raised area over a corner which will be the new town area. This is looking good with many new structures, but still weeks from completion. I will definitely post the new stuff on the Ironbound website when it is complete.
Anyway... I am still kicking and I am still loving the layout. Even though it’s relatively small, the detailing and reworking never ends... which is exactly how I love it to be : )
Happy Model Railroading!
~Andy
