04-21-2014, 10:58 AM
Sitting around thinking one day - I realized that my town has roads, but no roads actually exit the layout's edge
. Somehow, this bothers me, because prior to the arrival of the railroad in town, the first settlers and prospectors had to come by horse and wagon, and that means a road. And such a small layout - it just seems like an obvious flaw - like the parking lot without an exit or cars driving towards the end of a dead-end street we often see on layouts. And that really bothers me! So, I extended one road to the layout's edge, created this little concrete retaining wall to "stabilize" the slope, and now the LPBs have a way to travel to the unmodeled sections of town and adjacent towns without having to hop on the train
I still need a guardrail of some sort. You can also see the stairwell I added for the LPBs to get from their houses to the lower parts of town without having to take the "long route".
. Somehow, this bothers me, because prior to the arrival of the railroad in town, the first settlers and prospectors had to come by horse and wagon, and that means a road. And such a small layout - it just seems like an obvious flaw - like the parking lot without an exit or cars driving towards the end of a dead-end street we often see on layouts. And that really bothers me! So, I extended one road to the layout's edge, created this little concrete retaining wall to "stabilize" the slope, and now the LPBs have a way to travel to the unmodeled sections of town and adjacent towns without having to hop on the train
I still need a guardrail of some sort. You can also see the stairwell I added for the LPBs to get from their houses to the lower parts of town without having to take the "long route".
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Kevin
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