Freelance 2015-3

[faraway]

Reinhard,I am 70 years old and while memories of trains and industry go back to around 1955 there was a lot of green even then. I can not see the call for greenery as a call to era change.I for one think I just gave you an excuse to redo the layout again. :mrgreen:

Yes, of course I (mis)used your last append to cover my latest change.

But seriously I was very much surprised not to find any vegetation on the photos shot around the terminal railroads in NYC older then 1940. There is a Yahoo newsgroup covering the same subject and they discussed the missing vegetation too.
There have been two important statements
a. The impression from old photos is true. There was virtually no vegetation at all.
b. The ground was made of cinder and periodically soaked with old oil.
That created an environment not very healthy for vegetation (and anything else).
They explained that vegetation/weed started to grow up after 1940.

Anyhow, I am always astound how much the overall impression changes by just swapping rail and street cars.