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.

Sunday, May 4, 2014

The Tunnel

I guess all I needed to do was to dig in and just make the tunnel that I was so worried about. I used two empty boxes to form the shape of the inside of the tunnel and cut large holes in the sides of the boxes so I could reach in with my hand. The track passed through one of the boxes and the other box served as access from the outside of the tunnel. I then crumpled sheets of paper and attached them to the outside of the boxes to give the mountain its irregular shape and I laid plaster cloth over the structure. the mountain with the tunnel is ready to paint. the opening where I put my hand in to retrieve derailed cars will be made to look like a cave. All in all I think it turned out really good.