05-03-2010, 09:15 PM
Nothing accomplished tonight. I did get the old buildings set into place and cleaned up a bit.
Here is a layout photo tour with my thoughts for what will be in each area. Nothing is set in stone, so any ideas would be appreciated. Sorry about the photo-overload, and anyone still on dial-up will be wiped out. Again, I haven't planned anything for the new sections and am open to all suggestions! Thanks in advance!
Starting at the right side of the door, we have the Santa Fe interchange yard. This will basically be a scenicked fiddle yard where cars come and go from the layout. There will be storage drawers underneath the layout for the rollingstock. I wish I would have made the ballast a lighter color. I wonder if some drybrushing of a lighter color would help?
This area will be scenery, fields and trees mostly. I am considering cutting into the benchwork for a bayou/bridge. Most likely will do this as the layout is so flat and needs more "up and down". Of course, since I am freelance modeling the Houston area, it needs to be flat. Still, there are plenty of ditches and bayous. Most of the interesting scenery here in Houston goes down instead of up like in mountains and hills.
After turning the corner, we have Industrial District A. A few buildings here that need finishing, a couple more need to be built and will sit on the right just out of the picture. I may replace the brick structures with some of the more modern "shoeboxes" a la Kurt.
Another 90 degree turn and we get to the plastic molding plant. Covered hoppers and boxcars.
Next we have the Almeda Terminal and Gulf yard. This may end up being a double ended yard that will primarily be used as a storage yard for ATG and GERN rollingstock. On that note, don't really know if this "storage" yard should be double ended. Since the ATG is an industrial shortline, I don't think much classification would be done here. Any thoughts on this are welcome. And again, I wish I would have used lighter ballast.
Here is a layout photo tour with my thoughts for what will be in each area. Nothing is set in stone, so any ideas would be appreciated. Sorry about the photo-overload, and anyone still on dial-up will be wiped out. Again, I haven't planned anything for the new sections and am open to all suggestions! Thanks in advance!
Starting at the right side of the door, we have the Santa Fe interchange yard. This will basically be a scenicked fiddle yard where cars come and go from the layout. There will be storage drawers underneath the layout for the rollingstock. I wish I would have made the ballast a lighter color. I wonder if some drybrushing of a lighter color would help?
This area will be scenery, fields and trees mostly. I am considering cutting into the benchwork for a bayou/bridge. Most likely will do this as the layout is so flat and needs more "up and down". Of course, since I am freelance modeling the Houston area, it needs to be flat. Still, there are plenty of ditches and bayous. Most of the interesting scenery here in Houston goes down instead of up like in mountains and hills.
After turning the corner, we have Industrial District A. A few buildings here that need finishing, a couple more need to be built and will sit on the right just out of the picture. I may replace the brick structures with some of the more modern "shoeboxes" a la Kurt.
Another 90 degree turn and we get to the plastic molding plant. Covered hoppers and boxcars.
Next we have the Almeda Terminal and Gulf yard. This may end up being a double ended yard that will primarily be used as a storage yard for ATG and GERN rollingstock. On that note, don't really know if this "storage" yard should be double ended. Since the ATG is an industrial shortline, I don't think much classification would be done here. Any thoughts on this are welcome. And again, I wish I would have used lighter ballast.
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