@Mark Boyce posted:Thank you, Richie! Those fellows do look like hard workers! Look at the muscles on the one with the muscle shirt!!
Jeff ScoutingDad sent me a video he had seen that addresses the sidewalk problem, since both of us are contemplating the same thing. I watched the video and see potential, but need to adapt from HO to O scale, so that is all I have on that at this time.
I again turned attention to the bridge that I have placed at the right side of the town. I have been puzzling over it for some time. Ultimately, I do not think it will work for that location. Even if I tilt it downhill leaving town, it is still too high in relation to the nearest rear track and the foreground tracks.
With or without the bridge I can't make a grade crossing across the rear tracks because trains coming up from the middle of the rear three tracks won't clear it. Oops on the PRR boxcar!!
I had also thought of having the road wind downhill into the valley between the foreground and rear tracks, but I want to use that area for a farm. Even without the bridge, that idea will take up too much space.
I am thinking of having the road dip down from the end of the brick street, turn sharply towards the backdrop, and disappear in a tunnel under the tracks. The Woody shows it would work, and nothing interferes with the middle track. There are several places near where we live that have similar arrangements on the former Bessemer & Lake Erie, now Canadian National.
I think that will be the best way to do it. What do any of you forum members think?
Mark, I like the road under the track's idea. I've toyed with the idea for years but being a flat liner it would be tough. I did have a road crossing on a couple layouts that went into a tunnel. Defiantly a good look.
