river help needed

[Drew]

Hi Lynn,
It looks like what you’re planning there will work fine…I think it’s more visually pleasing if you’re modeling a moving river to have it look like it’s coming from somewhere & going somewhere…if your river has a dead end, try to hide or disguise this fact by having it disappear from view, or “flow” off the edge of the layout…
I’m facing a similar problem on this little HO layout I’ve been puttering around on with my grandson…
We wanted a river with the track going over it, but we don’t have much space…also, because of the benchwork, the river bed ended up on two levels, one about an inch higher than the other…So what we’re wanting to do is hide the fact that the upstream part of the river actually dead-ends into a hillside…Hopefully when we get some scenery done, it will look like the river is flowing out of the woods, over a waterfall, then under the track, & off the layout…

Here are a couple of construction photos of the scene we’ve been working on…







PS…this is my grandson’s Thomas The Tank layout…he’s not that interested in anything being “correct”, hence the quicky bridge made by cutting down some plaster tunnel portals & simply gluing them to the sides of the roadbed!
I’ve also been thinking that this might be a good place for a grist mill along this little stream…