This installment cover the bridge and canyon area, plus slapping on the Sculptamold to blend everything and add a good scenery base. Finally, the first buildings are already going up! This is boomtown railroading at its best.
My canyon isn’t very wide, although once I work a little forced perspective magic on it that will not be so apparent. The first piece of the puzzle is getting the tower for the bridge spans to help us some. In this pic, you can see the standard build of the ME viaduct tower. It’s meant to have an entire 30’ truss section to span the top. Having two 15’ end trusses would look even weirder. So I hacked the second tower I built so that it tapers.
Looks pretty good.
And once you have a bridge in, there are places to go, as the train ducks around the mountain/lift-out covered with early winter snows…err, Sculptamold.
The train has just emerged from the cut that leads to the hidden tunnel to the rest of the layoput and stopped at a spot on the hill i made for a water tank. The pink area on the other/right side of the tracks will probably be the location of the Purgatory station.
Now that almost all the Sculptamold is on, here’s a pic showing the stone mill and a look at most of the Purgatory trackage. The water tank/station area from the previous pic is off to the right.