01-03-2010, 12:47 AM
faraway Wrote:steinjr Wrote:...After dithering a bit on the issue, I have decided to run the tracks in the warehouse district directly on the foam, instead of on a raised track bed. ...
Yes! You may consider real street running or very deep buried in ballast and dirt. May be at a later stage you may decide to mix both to get the best visual impression.
Yes, that is what I was thinking about.
Here is the kind of track look I am visualizing :
http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresour...eid=180280
And here are some pictures which are inspirational with respect to the kind of look I am visualizing for the warehouse scene as a whole.
(Click on pictures on shorpy.com to see blowups with way more detail):
http://www.shorpy.com/node/6990
http://www.shorpy.com/node/6958
http://www.shorpy.com/node/6924
Those last three pictures are from Duluth in 1905, and Duluth in 1905 of course is not exactly the same as Minneapolis in the 1950s, and things like cars, engines, signs on buildings are older, and buildings are lower, but the type of track configuration, and the relationship between tracks and buildings is about same.
But wanting to do something, and actually doing are two very different things. I am sure there will be quite a bit (and then some) of trying and failing before I get things to look right :-)
Oh well, once my family gets up, so I can start work in my layout room with power tools, I'll get back to work on cutting down the end boards of the three layout sections that comprise the warehouse district scene, so the section end boards are level with the ground/foam instead of being level with where raised tracks would have been.
Smile,
Stein