New England in winter

[MikeC]

I thought I might show some photos of my small New England layout.
It's only 9ftx3ft and it links with my British 00 scale layout for continuous running.
Here's where they meet:


The plan is to have a couple of industries, a loco shed and fuelling facility and snow. There's a somewhat polluted drain and a river. I've recently been working on the river. It's two-part epoxy resin.

Loads of vegetation to do yet. Never having been to New England I'm relying on photos. It seems that apart from pines there would be no greenery in winter. If anyone can prove otherwise I'd be glad to know because I'm a bit tired of all the dead stuff, although I'm determined to see it through.

and a cutting that will lead to one of the industries

It was based on expanding gap-filling foam with Bostik acrylic gap sealer over the top.

Some temporary snow. It was baking soda and I didn't leave it long before I vacuumed it up.


This snow was plaster powder - also vacuumed up soon after the photo was taken


My Proto 2000 Gp38-2 rounds a bend


Currently it's DC but one day I hope to upgrade to DCC. I won't need anything too elaborate. Got my eyes on the NCE Powercab.

Thanks for viewing. All comments and advice are most welcome.

Mike

[domiluk]

Vary nice looking layout I real like the way you have got the winter look .Thanks for give us a show.

[ak-milw]

Mike,
Nice looking stuff, You are right about modeling winter, to many trees with no leaves. The only green you will see are pine trees.

[thogan3]

BRRRR..... Looks cold!!! reminds me of what is right out my back door now...8" snow and currently 10 degrees! (-1 windchill)

[Shawn Fields]

Mike, Great Shots

[MikeC]

Thanks for the comments fellas. At least I now know I'm on the right track with the vegetation. It sure does get boring after a while though. I'll have to make a whole swarm of pines.

Mike

[ak-milw]

Mike,
I would just be careful with all the white powder though, you might get a visit from the Narcotic's Division. Have you thought of or tried the Woodland Scenics snow??

[Eastern Roads]

Well, New England DOES have a lot of pine trees, and they live singly and in clumps, so you can use them to hide a lot of things! Also, in many places it gets pretty rocky, especially along right of ways where the terrain was blasted away to accommodate the tracks. So then you can have some more variety and texture. New England has a lot of hills (and the Western guys will laugh at this, they're just not as HUGE) and "mountains" so the flatlands are where most of the civilization is.

You are off to a great start there, Mike!!

[MikeC]

ak-milw

I'm hoping for a white Christmas - might be some WS snow in my stocking. I've been wanting some for a long time.


I've also seen some marble-like stone chips marketed by Heki I think. Quite a nice sparkle to it. I didn't buy them because it was too coarse. Like an idiot I didn't realise until much later that it would be the easiest job to crush them finer

Mike

[MikeC]

Thanks Mike [Eastern Roads] It's great to have some local information! I've scoured nerail archive and other similar sites but it's a long slow job.

Mike