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Using "Modeler's License" for Prototype Modeling
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In front of me sits a track plan of Santa Barbara, CA from the 1920's. It's a very small area of railroading - just a few blocks. <br /> <br />But in trying to create a track plan in HO scale on a shelf - as the mafia guys say, "fugget about it....". <br /> <br />Alright, it's painfully obvious to me that you have to capture the "flavor" of an area, rather than trying to model it even close to the actual track plan. <br /> <br />Back to the drawing board.... <br /> <br />Some things that jump out at me: <br /> <br />Modeling a yard: single ended instead of double - let the other end "fall off the edge of the earth" at the end of the layout. <br /> <br />If there's 3 or 4 or five sidings, us model railroaders get, say, 1 or 2. <br /> <br />Roundhouse? Yeah, right. Time for chopping it in half up against the backdrop or front of the layout, or more realistically, eliminating it completely. <br /> <br />Wow, in my first attempts at any sort of prototype modeling, it is painfully obvious that the best we could do is capture the "flavor"!!!
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