Branch line/ISL

[Brakie]

"I will ask this" taking a siding and moving it to a different area of the layout makes it "walbash"? If anything I suggested to eliminate a siding. I don't think streets are irrelevant, In fact it's currently the most important topic on my own layout. I put my ideas out there to hopefully help give the member another perspective (like other members do) just to get a response similar to, why would you ever think that's a good idea.

One should consider the size of industry buildings before moving sidings. Even a Walthers background building requires space that would crowd the track closer together(another lesson learned the hard way) and IMHO one should avoid flat structure walls glued to the backdrop since there isn't any depth..This is why I decided to use Walthers background buildings and as a added bonus I can add some roof details to a rather boring looking flat roof..

Some lessons I learned.

Over the years I been building and studying ISLs I found less track is better then to much.Unlike normal layout scenery there's guide lines to follow including security,OSHA,EPA(containment walls around tanks) and fire codes that covers the location and number of hydrants. Extreme? Perhaps but,such attention to detail will focus the viewer's eyes on the layout's details not the size of the layout since ISL doesn't have loads of tracks,beautiful scenery and trains running loops like normal layouts..I've been told several times over the years that switching layouts are boring or to much like a puzzle and therefore unrealistic.

Of course one is always free to build the layout the way that serves his needs.