It would be nice if you identified yourself. Ed Kozlowsky Sanford, Maine www.SScale.org
>________________________________ > From: empirebuilderjjhill <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 5:24 PM >Subject: {S-Scale List} Are 'tree-tunnels' allowed on branch lines :-) > > > > > >I realized how funny this sounded while writing it… > >Anyway, I'm building a module and, after learning that the S-mod forum had >effectively shut down, was directed to this forum. > >The module I'm building is a 48"X38" section of straight track that will >feature a spur connecting the club's two track mainline with an initially >parallel single track branch line. Picture three parallel tracks with the >third track, the branch line, set apart from the other two and connected to >the middle track by a spur and two right hand switches. > >To create the illusion of spacial compression between the two track main and >the single track branch, I'm going to put a dense stand of coniferous trees >between these. > >After seeing this along a long industrial siding near my house, I got the idea >of "boxing in" the spur with trees to further the illusion of space between >the two lines. This "tree tunnel" appears to have been formed as trackside >trees were trimmed up to a height of approximately 20' but spread out above >this point and eventually the trees on either side of the track merged >together at the 20' level, creating a "tunnel" of foliage. > >Now this occurred along a (presumably privately owned) industrial siding that >serves a single business but receives several deliveries a week and where cars >are regularly shuffled by a trackmobile, would FRA rules permit the same thing >to occur along a slightly used spur? > >I might be getting a little ahead of myself since I'm still laying homasote, >but this'll help me plan my module.
