Okay, so I'm now to the inside of the track when it comes to scenery - outside the track was pretty simple, but going inside meant I had to decide what Lone Hill Park actually looks like. 

I decided to start with the walking paths in order to define sections to the park - a large field for kite flying, smaller sections for picnic tables, and of course Lone Hill, with it's path to the top. 

Hope you guys like this. Shot this  summer 2012.

I had a bit of an "oops" photo tonight, whereas my hand interfered a bit with a long exposure.

But as I look at it, though it does appear to be a hand, I realize this interference could be used to our advantage.

We've all seen the pictures with smoke, soot and dust added to the scene as an aftereffect by way of such tools as photoshop.  Me personally, I preferred photos back before photoshop - if there was smoke, it was either a prop IN the picture, or it was the result of combining negatives.

Model railroading has lost a friend and so have I. Gary Gelzer was well known to many OpSig folks for his attendance at operating weekends throughout the country, his articles in the Dispatcher's Office and his multiple versions of the Great Nothwetern Coastline Railway and Navigation Company (GNC).

Okay, the "Portable Display Layout" now has a name - the Lone Hill Park RR. 

Once I decided to build a portable layout like this, I also decided that I was going to use it to do a few things I've not done before - such as making a major terrain feature out of foam and Celluclay. 

I've used Sculptomold before but have been told that Celluclay is superior - it does appear to be more fine grained a product. However, I've also discovered that at around 65-69deg F. it also takes forever to dry/cure. 

Well, we're actually moved to Apopka, Fl. Which is just outside Orlando. Although our new home is crammed full of unopened boxes it doesn't mean that the planning process can't begin on my new railroad. I've asked my good friend and expert designer Scott Perry to do the design which will be loosely based on my good friend Kevin Klettke's wonderful Washington Northern RR.http://wnrr.net/ . I have the same size space as Kevin and since he won't ship me his layout (12ft X 10ft) I guess I'll just have to build my own.

I made "puff ball" trees in just a few minutes by using the furnace filter technique

http://royhoffman.com/pwrr/fftrees

I left the skewer trunks out and just used one layer of filter material.

This is part II of a great model Railroad that I visited and operated on in Oct 2012. Part I is located on my blog site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Xk8CMOqGk

This video is the step by step part of mounting a tortoise switch machine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NthGtL0F_No