Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

[TMo]

As promised, I added some more trees to the scenes in and around Hazleton and Black Creek to finish up that portion of the layout this afternoon.  Already showed off some overall pictures on the challenge entry page as a wrapup for the project.  Thought I'd toss in a few detail photos in here as well.  

                   


Overall, I'm really happy with the way this worked out for that side of the layout.  I had just a really vague idea about what I wanted to do with what was really just a spur line off of the old LVRR mainline that ran from Penn Haven Junction over the Hazleton, and for years it was just a way to get trains down to or up from the storage level of my layout.  Now it's a real town with a great transition between the gorge created by Black Creek to the city of Hazleton.  And, by virtue of running the spur under the breaker, I hid the entry to the storage level in a way that seems logical.  I built a ton of cardstock structures, integrated it all together, rehabbed an old plastic model, added some cool details, gave the whole thing some local flavor, and had fun doing it all.