The Very Last White River and Northern Railroad

[DKS]

Current layout appearance:

[CRL]

Definitive proof the world is round. Oh, wait a minute… Is that an edge?

[davefoxx]

Definitive proof the world is round. Oh, wait a minute… Is that an edge?

I don't know, but I think there's only two right hand curves on the entire layout (running counter-clockwise around the layout).  Can you find them? 

DFF

[CRL]

Actually, there’s only 2 places on the layout where a reverse curve is located. Otherwise, all the curves on the layout are towards the center of the layout.

[DKS]

All across New England are forgotten little family graveyards. You'll stumble across them in some of the oddest random locations—along a roadside or deep in the woods. I decided to add one in the oddly-shaped patch of land roughly dead center:



By 15 June 2021 I had it finished:



I built the wall one tiny stone at a time. The headstones are etched brass from Shire Scenes; vegetation is by Martin Welberg.

REFERENCE

[Chris333]

About 15 years ago they leveled a wooded area to put in a road. That turned into retail space at the road entrance since it was across the street from the mall. They put in a few restaurants and a hotel. But they found an old cemetery in the middle of those woods. Just to the left of this Holiday Inn parking lot you can see they fenced in around the cemetery. You can zoom in to street view and look at it.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2174714,-80.7403715,106a,35y,90h,45.01t/data=!3m1!1e3

BTW that 6 lane road (rt46) it's all off of was a 2 lane road when I was a kid. With trees so overgrown on each side I had to be careful on my bike when a car would pass. Now all of the houses were sold and tore down to put in retail space.

[CRL]

All across New England are forgotten little family graveyards. You'll stumble across them in some of the oddest random locations—along a roadside or deep in the woods. I decided to add one in the oddly-shaped patch of land roughly dead center:



By 15 June 2021 I had it finished:



I built the wall one tiny stone at a time. The headstones are etched brass from Shire Scenes; vegetation is by Martin Welberg.

REFERENCE

When they say our modern society is not connected to the land like our ancestors were, this is the connection being referred to. When you live on the same land your ancestors were buried in, that’s a connection we mostly urban dwellers will never know, but we must find a way to honor and appreciate that connection.

[peteski]

That is an excellent piece of modeling DKS. I don't think I have seen anybody model this type of private graveyard on their layout. Well done!

There is a similar private graveyard at the place we vacation in Maine.  Several graves (from early 20th Century).  It is overgrown with ferns in the summer.

[Chris333]

Also here is an old gas station that was close to me.


It was right on this corner:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1293703,-80.7683256,3a,75y,24.29h,76.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sj0-d8Mt7iUTSDPCQuKGrnA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

If you plan to the left you'll see a huge gas station.

[DKS]

Also here is an old gas station that was close to me.


It was right on this corner:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1293703,-80.7683256,3a,75y,24.29h,76.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sj0-d8Mt7iUTSDPCQuKGrnA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

If you plan to the left you'll see a huge gas station.

I like that it has an addition on the left that looks nearly identical to my barber shop, right down to the siding.

[DKS]

That is an excellent piece of modeling DKS. I don't think I have seen anybody model this type of private graveyard on their layout. Well done!

Thank you. It's been on my always-wanted-to list since... well, always, or at least a very long time.

Along similar lines, I'd built this little roadside graveyard for my Z Scale Gorre & Daphetid. It may or may not be private--that's something I'd never decided--but at least it doesn't have the modeling trope of a burial in progress.

[peteski]

Thank you. It's been on my always-wanted-to list since... well, always, or at least a very long time.

Along similar lines, I'd built this little roadside graveyard for my Z Scale Gorre & Daphetid. It may or may not be private--that's something I'd never decided--but at least it doesn't have the modeling trope of a burial in progress.

That one was also well done.  As far as tropes go, while you restrained yourself from depicting a burial, the name of that layout was a first-class trope cliché.   

[davefoxx]

That one was also well done.  As far as tropes go, while you restrained yourself from depicting a burial, the name of that layout was a first-class trope cliché.   

In the original Gorre & Daphetid’s defense, it was created by John Allen and named in the 1940s.

DFF

[Angus Shops]

And how would you go about animating that graveyard..?

[Steveruger45]

And how would you go about animating that graveyard..?

Zombie apocalypse, perhaps?