Barry's Model Railroad

This is an accounting of my attempts at model railroads N scale and HO or OO. I find it to be a lot of fun. I concentrate my efforts on The New York Central, Ann Arbor, Pere Marquette, Chesapeake and Ohio as it relates to the Pere Marquette, Michigan Central Railroads and my own Salt Creek Railroad. I am also interested in the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway, the Great Lakes Central Railroad, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific, and BNSF. You are welcome to give me advice.

Monday, April 30, 2012

Building a Residential Area

After laying out the roads, I began to build a residential area on my layout. I cut grass mats to use for the lawn areas and glued them to the table surface. I positioned 5 houses on the lawn areas. I put glue on the table surface and sprinkled sand on to the glue to create a gravel parking lot. I positioned a general store next to the parking lot and a road sign on the far end of the lot. I then added a few people around the houses and the general store. I placed a few trees and the result is what you see pictured here.