BRAKIE Take a closer look..That well maintain area is not in a industrial park and the ballast isn't the type most modelers like to use since its thin and not well maintain like ballast on a busy main line.. There is also a hiking or bike path next to the track. The business side of any industry is pretty rugged looking.The pretty side always faces the public's view but,when modeling a industrial area that's the side we don't model. One of the important things we need to learn the industry's siding beyond the derail or gate belongs to the industry not the serving railroad.
Take a closer look..That well maintain area is not in a industrial park and the ballast isn't the type most modelers like to use since its thin and not well maintain like ballast on a busy main line.. There is also a hiking or bike path next to the track.
The business side of any industry is pretty rugged looking.The pretty side always faces the public's view but,when modeling a industrial area that's the side we don't model.
One of the important things we need to learn the industry's siding beyond the derail or gate belongs to the industry not the serving railroad.
Even where the spur ends at the warehouses was nice and clean, as is the power plant that was on the line too. Study the whole thing, not just my pic from one grade crossing
The big industrial park, with chemical plants, coal load out, cement plant, and steel fabricator in Leetsdale PA has tracks lined with bushes. The southeast is loaded with nice neat, clean industrial customers. It's everywhere, if you look.
NittanyLion BRAKIE Take a closer look..That well maintain area is not in a industrial park and the ballast isn't the type most modelers like to use since its thin and not well maintain like ballast on a busy main line.. There is also a hiking or bike path next to the track. The business side of any industry is pretty rugged looking.The pretty side always faces the public's view but,when modeling a industrial area that's the side we don't model. One of the important things we need to learn the industry's siding beyond the derail or gate belongs to the industry not the serving railroad. Even where the spur ends at the warehouses was nice and clean, as is the power plant that was on the line too. Study the whole thing, not just my pic from one grade crossing The big industrial park, with chemical plants, coal load out, cement plant, and steel fabricator in Leetsdale PA has tracks lined with bushes. The southeast is loaded with nice neat, clean industrial customers. It's everywhere, if you look.
We have lots of neat, clean and well maintained industrial areas around here too.
Many of which are rail served......
And once again, there is a difference between functional clutter (stack of pallets, a few drums, etc), and normal weathering vs trash, neglect, deterioration, decay.......
Sheldon
ATLANTIC CENTRALAnd once again, there is a difference between functional clutter (stack of pallets, a few drums, etc), and normal weathering vs trash, neglect, deterioration, decay....... Sheldon
And location fits in..One tidy photo doesn't paint the whole photo of industrialized areas..
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
NittanyLionnice and clean, as is the power plant that was on the line too
I'll have to say it's a LOT cleaner than when I lived in the apartments across the tracks. Coal was piled everywhere and everything in the plant seemed to be covered in coal dust.
Paul