TedW posted:Bought a 1” x 8” x 10’ for a front/side fascia that I painted with chalkboard and will have someone more creative than I draw a steamer and cars on the 8’ front section. I started dismantle to make the move up to family room for display in a week or so. Kinda sad to move trains off.
I have always been torn about whether to change the scenery in my layout to the winter with snow. I love the look of snow along the track, in the roads and on pine trees.
The problem is that I also love my baseball field with baseball figures and figures with fans seated in the bleachers made of painted and glued Popsicle sticks that I made with my children when they were young 20 years ago.
The obvious solution is to have one end of the layout have a winter scene and the other end a summer scene with the baseball field. However, my layout is not that big, although it is in the modest sized playroom, goes through a tunnel in a wall and continues into the laundery room. The baseball field is in the laundery room. I could out the winter scene in the far end of the playroom.
I think I solved my problem. The layout is a long and narrow one and in the same level. I found keeping it in the same level (no grades) makes it easier to have smooth continuous operation, especially with post war conventional equipment. It would be better if the snowy winter scene was at a higher level in a mountainous area.
