12-28-2011, 08:52 AM
My favorite part about this topic is that it spans two VERY long threads, with hardly any movement.
Anyways, Brakie is right. Just build a layout with warehouses.
Make sure its a branch off a mainline. Make sure one of the warehouses has a open loading dock or maybe a crane of some kind to justify flat cars or gondolas. Pick nice big buildings like George Roberts Printing, or that "Heritage Furniture" background building, and slap it on to the back ground. Make sure the horizon also has industrial buildings, since NO ONE will be able to tell where it is.
Pick the most generic trees you can find, and use that semi-dead industrial grass lawn type ground foam.
There, now you are done. You have now replicated nearly every industrial park from the 1930s to whatever has survived to the modern day. Little details aren't important. swap the automobiles if you want a time change. People's eyes will subconsciously fill in the rest.
You can run a BNSF GP38, and a Milwaukee MP15, a SP SW7, or a Pennsy 44 tonner, and NO ONE will question it. Everybody will probably love it.
Anyways, Brakie is right. Just build a layout with warehouses.
Make sure its a branch off a mainline. Make sure one of the warehouses has a open loading dock or maybe a crane of some kind to justify flat cars or gondolas. Pick nice big buildings like George Roberts Printing, or that "Heritage Furniture" background building, and slap it on to the back ground. Make sure the horizon also has industrial buildings, since NO ONE will be able to tell where it is.
Pick the most generic trees you can find, and use that semi-dead industrial grass lawn type ground foam.
There, now you are done. You have now replicated nearly every industrial park from the 1930s to whatever has survived to the modern day. Little details aren't important. swap the automobiles if you want a time change. People's eyes will subconsciously fill in the rest.
You can run a BNSF GP38, and a Milwaukee MP15, a SP SW7, or a Pennsy 44 tonner, and NO ONE will question it. Everybody will probably love it.
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