09-09-2009, 07:08 AM
Selective compression being rather common in mrr-land, are there any 'rules' by which you or the general modeling community compresses distance or is the general tendency to go for whatever looks good in a given situation. More concretely, I am thinking about the placement of trackside signage and signalling where according to the rules on the 1:1 railroad, signs indicate a certain distance and thus are situated at a certain distance from each other. On an average model railway (that is, not the big ones where 10+ feet sections of track between switches are common) adding any such signs at 'realistic distances' wouldn't really work, so compressing 50% or more might be sensible. Any comments on this? Are there prototype-following purists who scoff at any such idea?
-norm