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I understand the point about relative sizes, but if you are up close to your railroad, locomotive by your shoulder, say,and the distances to your station is 12", the water tower 24", you can't focus on all 3 at once, so it is very hard to tell discrepancies of scale. Look back down the train, you can't focus on the length of it all at once, just like the real thing. Run your train, and stay a couple of feet away, and you get all that mass moving, wheels clicking over railjoints-heady stuff. Stand ten feet from your train, and the locomotive, station and water tower are all in focus, and thing like door sizes start to look odd if they are different. Look back down the train, and for most of us, the 6 car freight starts to look short, and a bit toylike. Run the train, standing ten feet from it, and you see just how small those curves are, just how short the tangents are.You no longer sense the mass of it all. You hear a tinny sort of ticking noise on railjoints. Whether you are a detailer or not is not the issue, I'm suggesting that getting up close and personal with your trains gives you more from less. -Ross-
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