Gary S' 2010 Summer Challenge - Bridge

[nachoman]

That's okay, Gary. Picturesque is in the eye of the beholder, as evinced by all the atrocious architecture and modernistic big box structures littering the landscape. Dadgum ugly if you like 'traditional' buildings, but really cool otherwise. I like the look of the river channels in SoCal. Had I stuck around long enough to build a module for my club, I would have most likely included one.

When I was in grad school, oil company representatives would come visit our department about once per year. They would require everyone to interview, give a schnazy presentation (more sales pitch than science), buy us beer and food, and try and bribe us with women. Our department got LOADS of funding from oil companies. Enough to take out-of-state class field trips, new computers, and pay half the professors' "salaries". I could never quite figure out what was in it for them. I think they hoped students would be lured by the appeal of the presentation, and be more open minded about living in Houston! That was their toughest sale - they would hire people right out of school at 75-80k per year, give tons of great benefits, yet still students were reluctant to agree to move to Houston. It definitely is not what I call "ideal" scenery. But, as Galen says "beauty in the eye of the beholder" - and certainly will make a unique and interesting model railroad layout. If you get these bayou areas done right, they will be a very unique "landmark" identifier for your layout.