There are so many ways we express life and the world around us on our layouts.
Do you have some photos of real-life places
that you feel would make good looking places, buildings , and/or scenes/scenery on a model train layout?
I have taken some and have found some, here-n-there, on the Internet. Shall we share some of them - your suggestions for layout modeling - here?
FrankM
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Hi Chugman/Art, Yes! I could see that right away in your modeling, in the photos you showed the forum of that area you have been working on. It's the same feel and quiet place!!!!
Congratulations on your progress with that part of the project, so far!
FrankM
One of my favorite pastimes is travelling around Connecticut to look for scenery and structures to provide ideas from which to create my model railroad. This gives me an opportunity to observe and appreciate natural (rocks, streams, trees, terrain) and manmade (buildings, bridges, tunnels, roads, towns) subjects which I might model. For me, this activity is an integral part of model railroading.
One such example is a crumbling old factory that I have modelled on my layout. The building is about 120 feet in length and has twelve skylights, which I have compressed to the equivalent of 80 feet and six skylights on my scratch-built model. While the actual building is not near water, on my layout it is next to a stream that is typical of what I see in my travels through Connecticut.
MELGAR
MELGAR< Your modeling of the old factory is superb! And your posting that project here, complete with the photo of the prototype is right-on-point. Thank you, sir! I'm sure all of us have gotten something out of that posting of yours.
FrankM
I'd LOVE to model this, but it wouldn't fit on my layout. It's the ET&WNC depot at Bemberg (called "Port rayon" during the war due to the German name), in Elizabethton, TN. It still stands though the tracks are now gone for good. Twin rayon mills used to stand across the road from here (a WalMart stands in that spot today).
Along the once-industrial riverfront about 700 feet from the railroad in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
MELGAR
Melgar, nice work on the tool & die.
p51 posted:I'd LOVE to model this, but it wouldn't fit on my layout. It's the ET&WNC depot at Bemberg (called "Port rayon" during the war due to the German name), in Elizabethton, TN. It still stands though the tracks are now gone for good. Twin rayon mills used to stand across the road from here (a WalMart stands in that spot today).
Just a suggestion: maybe you can compress it so it fits on your layout, like Melgar did for the model on his layout.
Naugatuck River dam viewed from a passing Metro-North train at Seymour, Connecticut. I intend to build a dam behind the truss bridge on my under-construction model railroad.
MELGAR
MELGAR posted:Naugatuck River dam viewed from a passing Metro-North train at Seymour, Connecticut. I intend to build a dam behind the truss bridge on my under-construction model railroad.
MELGAR
Very nice photo of beautiful lsndscape, Melgar.
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