Finished up the I-35/80 and Hwy 141 overpasses on my IAIS Grimes Line layout this afternoon.

Each overpass used modified Rix Products piers and railings. The road deck is .060 styrene. The highway sign is a Summit Custom Cuts kit.

James

Okay, it's not going nearly as fast as I need it to - partially because I was too afraid of making a mess. I forgot how much diluted glue doing something like this takes.... 

So, I've carved a hill that I'll hit with Celluclay and put in a parking lot and the start of a "woodchip" path:

I was just looking at the Shoo-Fly module thread, and something caught my eye.  In 1:1 railroading, it's quite common to see the remnants of old wood pilings beneath or beside more modern concrete or steel bridges.  In some cases, the pilings ended slightly above ground level and served as a base for the trestle bents, in others the bents have simply been cut away when the new bridge was built.  But I cannot think of many model bridges which have been treated in this fashion.  Plenty of steel and concrete, and of course plenty of wooden trestles, but how many folk

Since my last scenery update several people commented on my rock face and how I did it so I will do my best to explain how it was done,

Fist a couple of photos of the rock face in question.