How have you dressed up the corners of your layout?

Corners are a challenge. In one instance I hid the corner with the grain silos. In the other I built a farm off site and put that in the corner

Thank you Terry your efforts produced very nice areas. I like how it takes your eye away from the corner.

Corners are an opportunity to create interesting scenery and structures. The four corners are visible in this photo of my 12'-by-8' model railroad. The lower left corner is a small section of a commercial downtown. The lower right corner has two industrial buildings elevated about four inches above the rails with a rock face next to the tracks. The upper left corner is a cluster of a residence, a store, and a small warehouse. The upper right corner has hill atop of which is a small cabin.

MELGAR

How about making curved backdrop pieces to inset into the corners to ease or break up the hard visual lines your eye gets drawn to?

Terry’s use of the silo as a visual blocker above is very effective too.  

Here's a 90 degree curved backdrop in the central corner of the layout:

Well, my 8 foot square main layout is freestanding, so it has no box end corners as such, but posed a somewhat different set of challenges, which I've chipped away at over time:

The front right corner I've developed into a camping/park scenario, complete with flickering campfire and 'smoke', motion-sensing nature sounds, and animal figures to match the sounds:

Two other corners in the back are covered by the ends of a tunnel I added, upon which I scratch-built a cell tower and work crew at one end, a farmers market at the other, and a renewable energy installation (windmill and solar panels) in the middle (I also added a peephole in the corner at one end of the tunnel, so the grandkids could observe my two Marx 1829 smokers transiting the tunnel!):

That leaves me with just one "unfinished" corner, which (for now) awaits some more inspiration:

That's is the plan.......this is what I have so far.......

Have a great and safe week.....

Peter

Melgar, Studedude, Richard, Steve, and Peter thank you for your input. That is very unique Steve to have the camping visuals and auditory. When it cycled to the birds our cat started looking around. I have a rear corner that could use something curved. It’s impressive how Melgar’s bottom left corner doesn’t look like a corner. It just blends into the layout. And Peter, that’s not a layout that’s an empire that’s developing.

Jay

My contribution. I have a trestle bridge below this scene. Thanks for looking.

I did a tunnel in one corner with a cliff face above. Other corner got a roadway tunnel.

I'll post pix later.

@MELGAR posted:

Corners are an opportunity to create interesting scenery and structures. The four corners are visible in this photo of my 12'-by-8' model railroad. The lower left corner is a small section of a commercial downtown. The lower right corner has two industrial buildings elevated about four inches above the rails with a rock face next to the tracks. The upper left corner is a cluster of a residence, a store, and a small warehouse. The upper right corner has hill atop of which is a small cabin.

MELGAR

MELGAR nice job on those corners and I like that you brought that street in at an angle as it makes the scene much more visually interesting.

  This scene is about 34 years old and the first one on my layout.  I built the gas station while we were waiting to move in along with the benchwork. Berkshire Valley use to attend the local shows and I always bought detail castings. I worked at an old school garage so no research was needed as to what should go there. I still add to it every now and then.

Great topic! Lots of good ideas to latch onto. I took shots from both sides of the corner on most of them.