Morning All
If someone modeled something like this he/she would probably be ridiculed, but life can be stranger than fiction. Orwood California
Smile it makes people wonder what you have been up to.
Lee
That’s one way to keep unauthorized pedestrians off the track. Just build a moat around it…
Actually, the Key West Extension of the FEC resembled this - except that it had the Atlantic on one side and the Gulf of Mexico on the other.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in 1964 - with mountains, not salt marshes)
I’ve seen something like this once going through mid-Illinois, although it wasn’t done on purpose. The track ran on a tall embankment and the crop fields on each side had completely flooded. The road we went down was like that too, road on raised embankment, fields on both sided flooded almost all the way up to the roadway. I remember some parts the water was with in a foot or two of the edge of the gravel shoulder.
There’s also SP’s (now UP’s) Lucin Cutoff, where the mainline cuts straight across the Great Salt Lake.
Why is the caboose in the front on that train?
Probably so the train and maintenance crew (that’s the present-day UP Steam 844) dosn’t need to rub elbows with the executives riding the varnish. [:)]
Probably so the train and maintenance crew (that’s the present-day UP Steam 844) dosn’t need to rub elbows with the executives riding the varnish. 
Hey, that kind of looks like the 3985, it has two large steam domes among other things…
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Egg, meet face. Face, meet egg.
Funny, the caption also says something about “4-6-6-4”.
Gives my .sig a whole new meaning, eh? [:D]