ISL 2016 - Thinking out loud

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Been looking around on Bing and Google maps. Long time ago I found a Industrial Zone in Denver CO and they have some cool older areas with model size track arrangements.

Here is the birds eye from Bing:
   

I've taken an aerial snap of the southern side of the whole area (which could make a wonderful full room layout if you have the space) flipped it to suit my room and overlaid some track almost to scale. This has some compression in it but still retains the feel IMHO.
   

This is a bit longer than my room, over 14ft is needed to do it 1:1 as well as the shelf would need to be 24 inches deep but I can't go that deep...here it is on a 18 inch shelf with a little depth compression to save some space. Ideally I only want a 16 inch shelf but may be able to push.
   

Its a cool idea for someone of they have 14-15ft and space for a 20inch odd shelf. I like the area and the buildings are old and not all just grey boxes. I'm going to work on it some more to see if I can arrange it to fit my space a little better without losing spots. If you look carefully on Google and Bing you will see all the buildings in the longer spur are/were rail served....points of you can spot the loading platform..
   

So far I have something like this on a 16 inch wide shelf but it needs work...and yes I know the track runs close to the front edge, could always put up a fence or clear perspex safety barrier 1 inch high. Even thought of lazer etching a chain link fence pattern into it for effect but haven't given that enough thought.