To get to where I am with the scenery I have made a million and one mistakes; and still making them. Not only that it has taken time.
It was when I sat down and wrote a list of what I actually wanted on the layout that it came together. I like the overgrown look reminding me of standing waist high in long grass watching trains. Being on a train near Newburgh, Fife and tree branches smacking the windows as we passed. Nature fighting back and in cases winning. Fences non-existent at Newton Hall, Durham having a sandwich as trains passed. (A metal fence there now
)Seeing what I see and not what I thought I saw. The sky is very rarely blue. Tree leaves are different colours. There are 'fifty shades of green'.
As for the running of the layout; it is fun. I have five grandchildren and all want to operate it when they visit. It has a serious side and at times it is operated as such. Then everything has a reason to be where it is and runs through scenery to get from A to B - and back. It is a steam locomotive running layout set in 1914/1919 or diesel locomotives in 1970(ish). Hence I have two threads for the same layout. Great fun and keeping it that way.
Glencairn
