Shoofly free-moN module - 1
26b
26: A bulldozer takes a break from clearing a miscast
abutment while workers, with the help of a hoist crane,
raise up the rebar and wooden forms for the new. A
survey crew ensures this one will line up correctly with
the cast-concrete abutment across the creek. The water
is low and slow but the crew needs to hurry: though
warm and sunny today, the rains are on their way.
One of the paradoxical issues inherent in model railroad-
ing involves the dynamic “live” trains traveling through static
“dead” scenery, a situation which becomes readily apparent
when trains pass by people frozen in position. Creating a scene
with people in the middle of a job helps increase realism as the
eye, following the train, catches enough cues to allow the brain
to “fill in” the scene with the appropriate movement, sounds
and smells of action just outside of the train’s path.
MRH-Feb 2013
