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my dad is a certified master electrician and worked for IBEW down in philly until he retired, which my dad does have a book about modeling scenery for a layout it's called Scenery Tips, and Techniques it's put out by mr... one interesting thing in it though is making trees out of wire and then zap texturing it, which i'm experimenting with it... overall the trees do look real when your working on o-gauge and strand like 4 20" wires together makes a tree like 10" tall and but my dad took 2 strands and folded them in half clamped em in a vice and twisted em together, then soldered it, and i got stuck making the "tree"... But anywho the track is 3 rail o-gauge, and there's 3 different continious closed circut tracks that goes along the lines of an outer, middle, and inner track with a train yard back where the outer track makes a large right turn, which my dad used alot of switch track for the train yard, now the yard has 9 or 10 differt "bays" which you can park each individual train after your done playing with them, and he has a line going from the outer track to the bays by means of a y juntion well it's two normal switch track that forms a y at least, the middle track is elevated above the layout about 7 or 8" above the layout for the trains to pass under so that you can get to the middle and inner track... which my dad has a small stone pebble pile out in the woods, and to cover up the homemade wooden trusses that he made for it i was thinking about taking some of them pebbles and putting something down on the bottom of the middle track where it elevates and using some kind of backing material so that i could caulk each individual pebble to the backing material to give it a kinda vintage 1800's look, but set in modern times... buuuuuuuuuuuuut i don't know if it's going to work as i planned or backfire right in my face, and since my dad has like two or three electric trains (mostly diesels and steamers though) i want to make it look like they actually ran on that central overhanging cable and don't know how to go about doing it on the middle track where it elevates, by the way the grade for the middle track i think is like 1 or 2 percent. Now i guess what my question is... is has anyone ever tried this before, which one thing i forgot to mention all three tracks have a 1 or 2" clearence from eachother
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