A Small Town That Could Be Anywhere

[sailormatlac]

Call it coincidence, call it gate, I had a meeting in Bellechasse this afternoon. My boss took St. Vallier's exit to go there. To my surprise, the road sign, relatively new, still harbored "St. Vallier Station" which is quite an archaism. We passed by the place were the old picture was taken. The elevator was torn down years ago, but the Co-oP store was still in business and looking to do quite fine. It's no longer rail served, but the siding was still there with telegraph poles. Honestly, a neat little place to model. I though about getting rid of the church to make the scene breath a little bit more and feel less charicatural. Few hundred feets away was a little rock ridge with old houses and and old mill with a small creek. Well, I was lucky to guess right!

I'm glad to see you have a interchange track!!!!

Worth suggestions are always taken in account.

@Jack: thanks, I'm not a fan of circles, but Mike reconciled me with them by changing my perspective.

Nce start Matt.I can see some real potential in that little layout.

@jwb, I looked at the link, very interesting work and similar on many points. Will be useful!

@catt, that's the spirit. I recently went through your Z scale layout thread... it gave me lots of ideas too.

Time to make some fascia.

Matt