Best Layout Feature?

I like your layout! It's very nice!

 

Flash,I could spend hours working a yard like yours..

 

This is the region shown in my first two photos. I’m still working on the backdrops. The fenced in pentagonal section is a viewing area, part of the Railroad themed park. Surrounded on all side by track two of them mainlines, there is a lot of action to be seen in a small area.



Here are the three main buildings comprising Eureka’s Railroad Park.
The blue house in the back is “Railroad House Bed & Breakfast” The grey station combines the “Humboldt County RR Museum” (Two story section) with the “Lost Coast Model RR Club” (Single story section)
The lighthouse is decommissioned and I’m not sure whether it will be a maritime museum or a restaurant.



This is seaside at Eureka.
The mainline crosses a small inlet via a plate girder bridge while in the background you can see the street track that serves a couple of industries at the north end of town.

The harbor workboat “Tinker” is about to put a couple of divers in the water to check out the bridge foundation.

 

It's not even close to being complete, but I really like my Riverside Drive location.




This will be a rail over road/rail bridge, using Walthers N-Scale Art Deco Highway underpass. The bridge pretty low clearance and I plan to run short gondolas or hoppers under it with a small switcher.

 

I guess it would be the two bridges that cross the City Waterway (now Thea Foss Waterway) in my version of Tacoma.

In the rear is the NP drawbridge, in the front 15th street bridge, where street "clings" to both sides of the UP tracks.




Here is a photo of the "original". The aerial picture was taken in 1958 and both bridges had been repainted since 1949 (my version).


I still need to add the wooden pilings that protect the bridges in the "open" postion. The buildings on the near side of the picture (UP freight House and Martinac Shipbuilding) are currently under cosntruction.

Cheers
Dirk

 

Nice work!

 

Correction:

The best feature are the "Nolan Backdrops" done by Pete Nolan:




Ok, and my new helper Laura:


Pete:
These truly are the best part of the layout. Thanks again!

 

Grey One,

I like the picture of Laura better than my back drops. The back drops seem to have come out too dark. They are the same color as mine, so I guess we photo things differently, especially when distracted.

 

I like a lot of things about my layout. I like the roundhouse:

 

I like the bridges.

 

And I like the ships.

 

I have a very cheap camera and it looks like it adjusted the brightness for the T-shirt and blue foam. They are lighter but not as light as yours. Still, I like them the way they are. The "eye" see them, says "ok, mountains' then reverts back to the brighter layout. Exactly what it should do. Beyond that, it does make for some dramatic "night shots".

 

OK! I've been worried that they are too dark. Mine are darker than you might think, but I use lots of light pointed at them when doing photography, so they come out lighter than they are to the eye. Glad to see the layout is progressing!

 

This one is close and was taken in daylight:

by the way, the dining room table is not that bad any more. Um, er, it's worse and according to Laura it won't be that way for long. Tell me, what ever does she mean?

 

The only area with any scenery — so far....

 

Mine would have to be a pond on my layout. I'm not finished with it yet, and the track is just sitting unsecured on the trestle. There are also many more details yet to be added:

 

Bruce, nice stuff! That water looks great!

 

And I am always complaining to my wife that I lose things in our closet!
"Honey have you seen my tie......have you seen my shoes....have you seen my SD 40-2??"

Great trackwork!

Russ