Water Fall

That doesn't make sense in any credible way.

Is it waterfall-making tips you'd like, or is the question specifically how to engineer a train track behind one?  I can visualize how it might be a neat effect.

I believe Jim Policastro's method might work.  I'll try to find his article and get back to you.  It involved, as I faintly recall, putting clear caulking on Saran Wrap, or similar, and then draping it onto his mountain.

That might work if it's free-standing enough.

Maybe Jim will see your thread.

If I find it I'll get back to you here

- walt

I'm not at home now so I can't give his details.  But if you have old copies of OGR, his "column article" describing his process can be found in the August, 2010 issue of OGR on page 64.   The only comment that I have recorded in my notes pointing to the article is this:

"Useclear silicone kitchen and bath caulk.  Tips on making it look more like water.  Do NOT use the clear, paintable, latex window/door caulk."

Maybe you can find the article on-line if you are a digital subscriber.

- walt

Walt,

I did see this video on the tube a while back. It is a Easy and neat way to make a waterfall. I actually am going to make one myself using that exact video as a guide. I have already purchased the few containers of Real water and whatever is needed to get the job done.

Check out YouTube..It is there for sure.

Brian

I used this technique for my waterfall.

Here is my waterfall.

I did this on my "HO" layout some years past. I will try and find a picture. It was great fun to have the train go under(behind) the waterfall !!! Visitors loved it.

I am having problems with the scanner getting a good copy. I think you can still see the logging train going "behind" the waterfall. The waterfall drops into the river that also goes under the trestle.

2 summers  ago  Backyard good thing it was temporary May have to move.

Yeah, but its a really cool idea!  I'm not sure how someone would do it, but I'm going to watch this thread for inspiration.  

Further: I can picture the mainline track running under and behind the waterfall, and then a siding with switches from the mainline where the track runs through the waterfall, with a sign that says, "Train Wash - Five Dollars in Five minutes."  (I'd never run a train through it, you understand, but it would be a funny vignette). 

This is my layout that I am working with.  the plan for said waterfall will be at the transition point from the yard on the left and the city on the right.  I plan on having the falls where one of the bridges is. 

laz1957 where did you get your still? Is it a kit or scratch built? I've been looking for a still and really like yours.

Ken

True...in a way.

Calico Mine train at Knott's Berry Farm runs behind a waterfall.

Natures Wonderland RR (gone now) at Disneyland copied the Knott's idea and had a run behind falls.

And while it doesn't run behind falls......there is a rail line at Kanawha Falls WV off Route 60 where a water fall is right next to the track. When we have heavy  rain the falls can spray onto the tracks and over at times!

So correct......not REAL....but has been done!

I've seen nice falls done using clear plastic sheet like .020 styrene cut into a fall like shape and covered in clear silicone.

It makes total sense and this is the proof.