Several of the 'operations' type layouts that I have run trains on are
very similar to what your describing. I'm always somewhat surprised
when I arrive at a layout to operate and a little 'tent' card indicates
where a industry is located. Heck back in my youth I used Quaker Oats
boxes for storage tanks and milk cartoons for grain elevators, --maybe I
was ahead of my time!
I might suggest going to the next train swap meet and buy some junker HO
buildings and use them as temporary industries etc. I think it will add
to your operating fun. It will also help you tweek out some final
adjustments here and there.
Bob Werre
BobWphoto.com
Art Armstrong wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I'm glad to hear that others find scenic details can be "not fun". I
> guess they are necessary if you want to display your layout but my
> situation is a small (bordering on tiny) layout with a minimum of
> visitors - I can build and run just for myself.
>
> I decided to forego all non-train stuff. Where I have a switching spot
> for loading cars I put down a piece of matboard in the shape of the
> structure footprint, label it, and call it a structure. There is
> ground cover but no bushes, trees, people, trash cans, junk piles, or
> any of the other normal railroad detritus.
>
> It doesn't look like much but it serves me.
>
> Remember the cartoon in an old MR that showed a guy running trains on
> a sheet of plywood? He had nothing but bare plywood but in his head
> was a vision of magnificent scenery - that's about where I am now. -
> visions.
>
> Art
>
>
>
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