I would like to know which evergreens would be suitable for a West Virginia+Virginia scene. Any advice or help you fellas can give much appreciated.

You were kind enough to point out my previous attempts at track planning resulted in disaster. For this I thank you. I have been trying to get continuous loop out of my head and instead focus on 1 trip through the layout. All the while maintaining the 3 locales and their proto track arrangement.

Am I getting closer to something workable in this attachment?

Thank you for your time and Merry Christmas to all.

Here's the latest project to be installed on the Washington Northern. Ocean Harvest Seafoods got it's old billboard style signage on the rooftop. The sign was scratchbuilt using dimensional styrene, parts from the scrapbox, and some menu board letters purchased on Ebay. I attempted to weather the sign to represent it as having been in place for decades. Typically, these types of signs would have had illumnated letters, but I couldn't come up with a feasible way of accomplishing that. Curious if anybody has any ideas of how that might have been possible?

Raodbed continues on the 8th Subdivision of the Western Pacific.  Most of the single track areas are hardboard spline, but plywood and OSB (oriented strand board) are used for locations with multiple tracks.  One problem that always seems to affect such materials is variations in thickness.  If you attach sections of plywood using the typical splices from below, you have to deal with such issues using shims, also of varying thicknesses, plus a spliced joint is strongest across the splice itself, not at the top where the track is.