Wreck site

I'm sorry your railroad suffered a wreck off the bridge ( I saw the debris on the valley floor of the wrecked Digitrax Throttle, all that was left was the battery cover ) kidding aside, scenery looks great. Was that a double decker pig car? The RGS had some pretty interesting rolling stock, but I had never seen one with the double stock car door. Keep up the great work!

Jor

Scenery Method

What method did you use for your scenery? Cast plaster? Foam? It looks really well done.

Thanks - and some details

Thanks!!

My RGS is alternate-history, so I'm giving myself a little more freedom w/ rolling stock, for example.  The car is intended as a double-deck sheep car.  Success rating is left as an exercise for the viewer. 

Scenery techniques are detailed pretty well in my blog, if you go back a ways - http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/

Basically, rocks are cast in Durobond 45 using Bragdon or Woodland Scenic molds, hot-glued into place, and blended.  Painting is a coat of black followed by lighter colors. See http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/search?q=rocks

Scenic form is cardboard web (using drywall shims - http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2013/09/ophir-scenery-work-continues.html). Then plaster cloth, Structo-lite over that, paint, sand, and ground foam / static grass.

It was horrible

The loss of the throttle was horrifying... burned all the trees and the trestle under that bridge, and all that was left was the battery cover - blown clean free.    The explosion was bad enough to send the Vance Jct buildings far atop a hill halfway to Telluride, too.