The best senary

[Anonymous]

i have built the train set but i fing there is something missing and i dont know what it is , is there anything good to put on?

[Anonymous]

Whad do you have so far? Do you have pictures to show us to give us an idea. Or tell us what train set it is.

[Anonymous]

Well, I'd recommend buying a book on Scenery. Kalmbach has a couple of good ones. Then try out the techniques.

[traingeek087]

Decide what kind of scenery you want, and what best suits your layout. Go to www.railpictures.net and look around at the different photos of trains, notice the scenery and the way the tracks fit to the land. Decide by what space you have and what pleases you most. If you like a certain railroad and have alot of there equipment, you can also be prototypical and look at the various forms of land they have on the railroad and alongside it.

[Anonymous]

You first have to choose a time period and location. My layout was lacking something, and that was the solution. It allows you to buy specific scenery items.

[Don Gibson]

BUY SOME BOOKS.

See what other people have done. What is your 'Skill level' after putting together a "train set"?

MODEL RAILROADER magazine has beginner's layouts in most issues.

[cwclark]

i like to use woodland scenic's stuff...they have a vast array of ground foams, foliage, turfs, polyfibers and a whole lot more to enhance your railway...but the guys are right..you need to read up on the subject..there are thousands of techniques out there to make the most drab layout come to life with scenery...from modeling rivers, ponds and lakes to mountains, prairies, and deserts...the sky is the limit on things you can do to enhance your layout...Chuck[:D]

[leighant]

The best "senary" is what grabs you. I think it is something that strikes a chord of recognition-- perhaps an idealized romanticized "trainscape", perhaps a scene that is so ordinary that it is strikingly realistic in its ordinariness. Makes you see things you didn't notice in real life but on the model you become more aware...
Instead of copying somebody's model railroad, copy something from LIFE, as the creative writing teachers tell their classes.

[leighant]

Boblonain, I was going to look up your hometown in your member profile, look up that town on my nationwide street map and see what railroad features are in your neighborhood. But your hometown is not shown in your member profile, so I will just list several ideas for model railroads with a THEME I have dreamed up. I have thought of a few layouts for BIG themes, like the Denver and Salt Lake's heroic crossing of the continental divide at 11,600 ft. elevation before the 7-mile Moffat Tunnel was built. That would take a huge building. But here are some more modest theme ideas for railroads and/or modules.

I designed a layout representing the track in the neighborhood where I grew up and my little brother built the layout.
http://www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/aat.jpg

A friend's kid lived on Navy bases much of his life, one day asked for ideas for his train set. I designed a layout with the supply trackage aboard a Navy base, with the look of a base....security gates, a mixture of official institutional look and industrial-type look. I adapted that idea into my own 2x3' Navy blimp base layout.
http://www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/aab.jpg

A secondary mainline running though a courthouse-square East Texas town.
http://www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/aad.jpg

A junction near the middle of town where railroads cross, the bayou the city was built beside runs under, and a major street runs over on a viaduct. At one point, railroad runs in a "gallery" under a building. Very crowded. Didn't build this but was designed for a scene on a club.

A Gulf shrimpboat harbor with shrimpboats at docks, refrigeration and packing facilities, net repair shop, waterfront bar. Railroad came into the harbor area through a cut in storm levee which could be barricaded off in time of hurricane tides. Actually built this as a corner module for a club modular layout but I don't have a photo scanned and posted on the web to show.

Railroad through Texas Hill Country with main feature a granite quarry. Surrounded by scrubby brush, fairly dry cattle country. Also built but don't have a photo web-handy.

An export terminal grain elevator beside a harbor with ocean going ships and view of refineries across the ship channel. Built as one HALF of a 2' x 4' layout.
http://www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/abo.jpg

For a kid who lived in a suburb, I suggested a model of the line that ran half a mile from his house, just used for switching a couple lumber yards and a cement ready-mix plant. The industries which are switched would take up a little less than half the layout, the well-known railroad crossing on a major street with a corner of the shopping center, known by tens of thousands of the kids neighbors, would make a recognizable scene. A not-exact but recognizable model could be built by anyone with moderate skills and a bit of imagination and ingenuity. Wasn't ever built, but would have been an interesting small layout.

A tiny layout representing the tracks laid on the MGM Studio backlot for movie scenes involving trains.
http://www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/abs.jpg

Each one of these layout ideas is designed to have a look and a feel of some particular place, though none is an exact model. Tell us a little about your neighborhood, where you have seen trains etc, and we will throw a couple of ideas at you.

[Anonymous]

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[lydnis]

I agree if you havent applied it you need to layout sceneryand possible decide on buildings. Hills and mts. help

[Anonymous]

To Leighant,

[Anonymous]

To Leighant, I love your East Texas Town. I am just starting modeling railroading for the first time an choose N gauge and a western Montana Idaho scene with many small mountain towns. Although I am currently stuck in Houston, I still love the small town scenes with a RR running right down the middle, just like the town that I grew up in in the 40's and 50's.

Thanks for sharing the picture.