Staging

Looks good, amazing what a little scenery will do.

David Barrow used to do basic

David Barrow used to do basic scenery in his visible staging yards IIRC on his Cat Mountain & Santa Fe.  In my case, staging is under the main yard so I have no plans to scenic it at this time.

Thanks Dave.... Oh yeah Jim,

Thanks Dave.... Oh yeah Jim, I vividly remember that article, if I was able to hide the staging like you did I would have let it be, but having it out in the open and right next to the rest of the layout it didn't seem right not doing it.

Nicely done

What exactly am I seeing with the rear end of the cars?

Backdrop

Hey Michael, originally I didn't intend to put scenery on the staging yard. To accommodate the tracks abruptly ending at the backdrop I put in a highway overpass and printed out the ends of cars from Tangent's website to disguise the end of the tracks.

I would like to be there when

I would like to be there when a guest operator tries to couple up to one of them!

"when a guest operator tries to couple up"

 Yeah, I'd put kadees on them then watch him try to pull the wall down :> ) ....DaveB

They looked three dimensional

They looked three dimensional to me, almost as if you could couple! I couldn't tell for sure what I was seeing.

3D

LOL.... about visitors trying to couple to them...

@Michael some of the prints I glue to gatorboard and styrofoam so that they would in fact have some varying degrees of depths to them. So my trick worked by avoiding the uniformity if I had simply affixed them to the backdrop as is.