Hi guys,... in response to a previous posting by John and the recent post by bigboy25. First, I agree with you John, a bridge or trestle scene is quite impressive especially if it's the first thing you see as you enter the layout area. I had a tunnel scene you were greeated with on my layout and after a short while I kept looking at it and thought,... I have too much hidden track and this scene just didn't have much impact on the viewer. So I removed the scenery at that location and constructed this bridge scene. It certainly has more viewer impact. Because the new change was not part of my original design, the bridge is not long or too high. But with scenes below and above the eye sight line, I think it turned out not too bad. Please excuse the 'glossiness ' of the photo as it was raining heavily that day, ( although, it always seems to be raining in the Canyon Creek area for some reason !  
And for our follower bigboy 25. The home layout I had always planned as modeling after Western Canada. But when it came to building a portable O scale layout for shows, I needed something with less 'vertical ' scenery. And I wanted something different. Everyone does mountain and Prairie, but I wanted something different ! We travel to Mexico almost every winter and on one return flight I started drawing the design out on a bunch of napkins about 6 years ago. The result is now the portable Mexicali Grande layout I take to train shows. Again, on the utube, there are one ore two vidoes under that title taken by viewers. Thanks for your continued interest guys, always happy to participate in the forum.