Prototypical way to hide a hole in the backdrop

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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For those of you looking for a prototypical way to hide that pesky hole in your backdrop I offer up this picture to help. Enjoy.

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Jason,

Interesting pic. There’s a lot more of that overseas, we always like to think of ourselves as the land of wide open spaces, but I guess Texas is starting to get crowded…[oops]

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Jason: Thanks for the photo. I had to do something like that when I suddenly discovered a wall in the middle of my industrial area. There was no room for a hill,or any natural sort of view block,and the overpass I tried didn’t look right,so I ended up with this.

Here’s the back side (still under construction).

All model railroading requires a little pretending,so let’s all pretend we don’t see that “extra” hole on the left…

Mike

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Not at all uncommon in the industrial belt during the transition era and before.

In Noo Yawk City, the elevated would rather abruptly transition to tunnel, frequently right under a multi-story brick tenement block (Old-fashioned iron fire escapes and all.) I don’t doubt that there were places in the Metropolitan Area where Class 1s were equally unsubtle.

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - where the skyscrapers are mountains)

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What hole?[swg]

Paul