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 Posted - January 24 2015 : 7:43:10 PM
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Recently, our friend WKS motivated me to get on with this
1880's themed diorama by sending me this sweet old coach
with tinted green windows. The question is, having laid a
little loop of track over this river-bed-to-be is to use this
surplus Hornby viaduct as a bridge (under) or as an over pass
between two geologic features: bluff or mountain e.g. Please
share your ideas and expertise. Setting is New England, season
is going to be winter on one side, autumn on the other. I think.
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Posted - January 24 2015 : 9:48:52 PM
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I kind of like the idea of being able to see the arch on top of the layout.
~ Dave
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Posted - January 24 2015 : 11:30:20 PM
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Yeah, I agree. I think I will build up a series of bluffs cut by the train
track with the viaduct creating an earthen wagon road between the
two, with a palisades dropping to the edge of one side of the river.
Under the track the vidaduct sort of melts away. Thinking of a stone
arch under the near track and a covered bridge on the far track.
Edited by - Chops124 on January 24 2015 11:31:56 PM
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Posted - January 25 2015 : 5:23:05 PM
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Via duct up, spanning two elevations. The surplus Lionel tunnel on the right will be used
as a shell to create another elevation. Trains look more interesting when they have
to traverse scenery- particularly when using a simple circle.
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Posted - January 25 2015 : 6:26:32 PM
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I like it!
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Posted - January 25 2015 : 8:06:56 PM
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Very nice work, so far. Keep it up! Honestly, I really like the mountainous scenery quite a bit. 
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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