For sure leave yourself some access to the inside of the tunnel, That's where Mr. Murphy will reside. I built my first layout similar to you but I did leave an access door at one end. The tunnel was 4 ft long, guess where the problems showed up? Of course, where it was out of reach!
Remember, it might look easy to get to now but when there are trees, buildings,telephone poles and signals lining the rails it isn't so easy without destroying something on the scenery. It's looking good so far, keep up the good work and keep us posted
God's Best & Happy Rails to You!
Bing (RIPRR The Route of the Buzzards)
The future: Dead Rail Society
Yup.
LION makes this mistake all of the time. Him just glued the top to the tunnel in place but had not yet painted the roadbed inside of the tunnel black. It could be ignored but since I run trains with a camera mounted on the front, this will become obvious on every trip.
Oh well, I counsel people that it is ok to rip things out to make alterations, so I may have to heed my own advice.
Since I have a SUBWAY layout, there are miles of tunnels. The question become do I enclose them for the sake of the camera, or leave one side open for viewers in the room and for easy access. I think I will build a wall that can be set in place when I photograph, and remove when I am not.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Bing; It appears that you are replying to someones previous post. To do that you should click on the REPLY button at the bottom of the post.
The button at the top is for starting a NEW post.
Elmer.
The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.
(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.