progress in SW PA

[johnny b]

I haven't posted anything in a while , and I've made a little progress recently. Still very much to do however.
As I described once upon a time , I'm somewhat modeling SW PA / Pittsburgh suburbs not far out of town. Nowhere specific.
There is still a lot to do on trees and wooded areas , buildings and other assorted detail work. Still no water in the creek.
While I had it pulled away from the wall I thought I might take some pics from the normally blocked sides .
Not in the class of some of the stuff I see on here but I'm proud of it just the same .
Agian , sorry for the poor photography.

 

[johnny b]

And a few other pics ..............

 

[fifer]

Thanks for the pictures Johnny. I always love to see a layout that has room for peoples homes as well as the town they work in !!!

Mike

 

[Will_annand]

Looking great there Johnny. I like the idea of the downtown and suburbs area with the green belt between. Excellent placement sir.

 

[RailRon]

Johnny, your layout is a very good example for showing a railroad which fits into a given landscape (and townscape ).

I admire your modeling style - you didn't succumb to the temptation to cram as much tracks as possible into a given space. I must admit that I myself had to eliminate several track sections in the course the construction of my layout - just to avoid that spaghetti-bowl look.

You didn't fall for this common temptation - Congratulations! Great work! :thumb::thumb::thumb:

Ron

 

[Herc Driver]

I really like the way all the buildings are painted. Nice job!

 

[umtrr-author]

Nice! Agree with Herc on the scenery to track ratio.

The layout also shows what can be done very nicely with commonly available materials-- I recognize a lot of the buildings.

 

[csxengineer]

Sw Pa

Hey, I can see my house from here!!

 

[hooknlad]

Very impressive use of space !!!! The buildings and landscaping are well laid out.

 

[johnny b]

Thanks everyone . Like I said there is much to be done yet . Ironically there really wasn't a plan as such. more of just a general idea . The buildings were purchased basically one at a time and placed as I got them. The track plan was kept simple for kid reasons so the basic loops were used . Then I tried to disquise that fact as much as I could by breaking up the view of the track with the scenery.