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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by TrainFreak409 Trains are trains are trains, so what if it is not prototypical? They are always fun to watch. And I think the large environment makes it even more impressive. [/quote] Well lets look at it this way. Do real trains continually do loops and go nowhere and nowhere? When you go down to the tracks to railfan your not watching trains do loops. Your watching a part of the national transportation system, stuff going here and there. Thats what makes it intresting, thats what makes railfanning so fun. It adds to the mystery of it all, wheres this boxcar going? Where is that block of Centerflows headed? It's not so much the fact that its a giant loop, its the fact that the scenery is so redicious. Its over the top and far fetched. You cant relate it to the real world. You want big and impressive and realistc? Take a look at the MR story or Allen Keller video on Ken Mccorrys PC/Conrail layout. Or the MSI layout, the MSI is a giant roundie round but it represents scenes from the real world and thats what holds MSI over Northlandz. Even John Allen, who modeled a world that teetered on surreal and real, sometimes blending that line so much you couldn't tell, realisticaly operated and represented the real world and pulled off an effect that tricked you into believing it was real. Northlandz couldn't even trick you to believe that.
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