For some 50 yrs when I am in S. Calif I have been traveling to Cajon pass to watch trains. It has got better the last decade or so now that a McDonalds has planted a store on 138 and 15. right smack dab in the middle of my lurking zone. For the last 15 yrs , I have been trying to model my layout after the Oregon blues and had difficulty imagining a layout to represent the treed Oregon blues in an oval. I have only been there a couple of times and so I have no feelings for modeling it. I have lived in the desert for 40 yrs and just wanted a patch of green to model and now giving up on the Trees and mts.
Now again, as it is cooling and night temps into the 60's, I will again be out working here and there on my layout to represent the Cajon I enjoy watching trains at. For you who live in S. Calif and have visited you know the area. Starting from the very old Rock safety wall, before steel guardrails, to the small sidings at the far end of the old road to the underpass that reconnects to the 15. I feel I can capture this well enough in a 36'X 11 oval.
Any one here modeling that zone of the BNSF and UP.
Thanks to Google map I can get nice satelite views to help work in the details and size I need to capture the place.
Phil