Roy Inman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, to do a prototypically correct model of Union Station Kansas City, complete with train sheds on both east and west, an S layout would require approximately 26'. If I am looking at my calculator correctly... two sets of sheds, each approximately 800' long = 1600'; width of the North Waiting Room approximately 100' including some peripheral stuff = 1700' divided by 64 = 26.56, correct? That is a lot of scale real estate to devote. What several modelers in other scales have done hereabouts is to show only a part of the station, a vignette as it were, in the background.
Right you are... or build only part of the model and butt it up to a backdrop image of the actualy prototype to "simulate" the un-modeled- rest of the structure... as well as hiding the un-modeler parts of the structure with other forms of scenery... ... you name it, there are many ways to model PROTOTYPICALLY without having to squash things. Or... we could all just go the simple route which would open oh so very many more doors to us... and model a fictitious, freelance railroad... which, of course, had no prototypes of any kind (because it never existed in the first place), therefore just about ANY era-appropriate rolling stock, passenger cars and locos would be appropriate, as weould just about any kind and size of era-appropriate structures! ALL PROBLEMS SOLVED! This very same idea is why I posted a few months back asking if anyone has ever designed a herald for a freelance railroad... I'm having such a hard time getting the models I want for my railroad of choice that I'm about to trash my dream of modeling my favorite road in S and just invent a road so I can use most of the models that are already availible. John Degnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gospel Baptist Church www.gospelbaptist.net John's World on the Web www.trainweb.org/seaboard/welcome.htm Seaboard Air Line Information Collective and Photo Archive www.trainweb.org/seaboard/index.htm Seaboard Air Line Class B-7 40', "Turtleback" Box Car Project http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/SALRoundRoofBoxCarProject.htm --------------------------------- Bring words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
