As long as we seem to be touching on the East Portal area above the Appalachian area, I guess it's time to expand the description and photos into that part of things. I appreciate the positive comments here, by the way, they keep me going, many thanks. I should mention once again that I don't have a single prototype or area that I model, I model what I like and try to fit things in a little like Walt Disney in Disneyland. If the Matterhorn sticks up above the Fairy Castle, in the end, you've got to accept it. So the thing to recognize about the 1994 scene in the post just above is that in effect, all scenery below the curving track on risers coming down from the sewer pipe is Appalachia. All scenery above is the Rockies. I get a lot of complaints. It's my layout. Actually, the complainers mostly don't have layouts. (Or the layouts aren't very good.)
So now we get to the East Portal area, which I am resuming work on. Here are some photos from early 2012, when I got up the gumption to cut out part of the subroadbed and install parts from an Atlas girder bridge that came painted for D&RGW.
So far, I haven't been able to figure out a way to hide the sewer pipe. The plumber needs access for emergencies, after all. It may eventually be something I just have to accept, and something I can edit or crop out of photos.
So now we get to the East Portal area, which I am resuming work on. Here are some photos from early 2012, when I got up the gumption to cut out part of the subroadbed and install parts from an Atlas girder bridge that came painted for D&RGW.
So far, I haven't been able to figure out a way to hide the sewer pipe. The plumber needs access for emergencies, after all. It may eventually be something I just have to accept, and something I can edit or crop out of photos.