up in a blender and placed on top of the ground goop before
it set. I added rocks, bushes, trees other ground effects to help
create the effect of natural ground cover.
I made the pine trees and Douglas firs by hand-shaping the
trunks from balsa wood. I stained them a natural pine-tree
color. Dried Caspia branches were then pushed into small holes
drilled in the balsa and held by white glue. These were sprayed
with green paint, and then sprinkled with Woodland Scenics
green foam. Everything is held together by hair spray. It is not
unreasonable to make half-a-dozen trees in an hour.
To create the river and creek scenes, I used Woodland Scenics
water products. I first painted the river bottoms and creek
beds with artist acrylics in different hues, to obtain the desired
coloration. The backdrops were all hand-painted on Masonite,
which runs the whole length around the layout.
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6. The sun sets, and a NYC SW7 drops of its last car
at the wharves in South Junction. The busy South
Junction yards are in the background. Many wharf-
front businesses are winding-down for the day.
A busy cattle rancher is bedding-down his cows for
the evening, while the South Junction freight terminal
clears the platform, ready for business the next day.
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7. By late afternoon, NYC SW #8880 has reached
its destination in Saranac Lake with its heavy load of
unprocessed timber, as it passes through town on its
way to Saranac yard. Workers at Tylick Tool can be
seen hard at work rushing to complete an order for
shipment the next day
Lake Tupper & South Junction- 5
MRH-Jul 2014
