BRINGING LIFE TO YOUR LAYOUT
I’M SURE it will come as no surprise to you that many of the questions we get from Model Railroader readers are about scenery and structures. After all, both are key components of bringing a model railroad to life. Without them, all you have is a piece of plywood, track, and trains. For some people, that’s plenty. A rich imagination fills in everything else. But for others, those basic building blocks are only the beginning of an empire. By adding some grass and trees to your layout, you start to create a sense of time and place. Adding a building or two – or 17 –gives your trains a reason to run and customers to serve. Adding roads starts to tie the transportation network together. And nothing brings things to life like…