Getting Real Column - 8
11. The next day I sneaked back into the layout room
and spent a pleasant couple of hours cutting and fit-
ting the foam stack to fit into existing scenery. Note
the uncut piece of foam in the lower left foreground,
marked and ready to cut. I couldn’t resist sticking
a Super Tree into the foam, noting just how easy it
would be to put a forest on this hillside.
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With the basic Laceyville to Wyalusing hillside transition largely
in place, and feeling quite comfortable with green foam tech-
niques, I turned my attention to the other side of the pen-
insula. That was a somewhat less draconian tear-apart and
connected to a completed section of the layout, so I was highly
motivated to get that opposite side back under control and
presentable. This next work occurred between an op session
in September 2013 and the next one in early November 2013,
just to give a sense of the time involved.
Skinner’s Eddy and Myobeach, PA
In my prior visits to the town of Laceyville, I had failed to
notice that a structure I was planning to place there on my
layout was actually in a place called Skinner’s Eddy. Yes, you
could see it from Laceyville, but both on the map and on the
railroad, it is two different places! Since I was doing a partial
remodel on the side of the peninsula opposite Laceyville, it
seemed logical to move this structure around the corner to
that side. It also kept the towns in the correct order.
On the following page, is the Conrail ZTS Map of the Skinner’s
Eddy area.
MRH-Aug 2014
