Your industries....Alive & Thriving or Dead and shut down.......

[loathar]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Walter Clot

Why not put the factory in with it's old name highly weathered. Then place a sign out front saying, "Coming Soon. . . ." what ever you want to make. Put some tractors and bull dozers around with workment everywhere. Later when you decide what you want, change it! This will give you the best of both worlds, out with the old, in with the new!

Great idea Walt. Going with the urban renewal theme......I like the idea of a temporary scene that can be changed to grow with the layout.
P.S.-We will meet some day. Love the E-mails your wife is sending me.(I'm assuming there coming from her)

[Anonymous]

Cool ideas... modeling past and future, as well as present can provide the sense of "reality" that can enhance plausibility. Abandoned buildings and unused track can look very interesting (consider them scenery), and empty lots, fenced in with "for lease will build to suit" signs, "no trespassing", etc. will add texture, the term used by Dave Frary to describe how to make our models more appealing. And consider the prototype-every structure, every track, every road isn't used all the time. But as with any effect, this must be used selectively (unless you want to really save on loco, track, rolling stock, dcc - hmm the all scenery approach sunds like the notrack module).

[Ibflattop]

Hey Just think of the detailing possabilites!!!! You could make it look like the railroad came and ripped out the Switch to the building, leaving a couple of broken ties scattered. Windows boarded up and just a trashy look to it. You guys probably havent ridden the other side of the tracks! Its not a Pretty site as some Model Railroads seem to bee.. Look to the realistic...... Kevin

[Walter Clot]

loathar - The e-mail pass-a-longs are from me. My wife doesn't have much time for that with the "Discipleship House" ministry in Mt. Pleasant. She works 3 24 hour days there. I do most of my e-mail stuff late at night. Still hoping to get to meet you.
Walt