Looking good.
So you moved the drunks around the corner!
Those flats do look good.
Great idea Ralph - salvages the buildings without a lot of work and fixes a scenic problem all in one 
To give you a little more photo height you could add a backdrop INSIDE the stairwell frame. A simple flat surface painted sky blue would work and maybe a false roof top water tank around the one leg at the corner.
Jon Radder said:Excellent idea, Jon. The original plan was to put up a sky or landscape scene there. My brother is pretty good at painting clouds. He did a nice job on the backdrop for his N scale layout. Ralph
To give you a little more photo height you could add a backdrop INSIDE the stairwell frame. A simple flat surface painted sky blue would work and maybe a false roof top water tank around the one leg at the corner.
Great scenic idea Ralph. Go with Jon the skyline would help
really good idea to hide the stairs.
and i agree, using a sky background behind the facades would make it even better.
Ralph Berg said:Ralph you could also plant some tall ferns or plants that like shade underthe steps. That might hide things more and blend in more.Jon Radder said:Excellent idea, Jon. The original plan was to put up a sky or landscape scene there. My brother is pretty good at painting clouds. He did a nice job on the backdrop for his N scale layout. Ralph
To give you a little more photo height you could add a backdrop INSIDE the stairwell frame. A simple flat surface painted sky blue would work and maybe a false roof top water tank around the one leg at the corner.
Just watch out for the ferns - once they take hold they are tough to control or get rid of :o I’ve been in my house for 20 years - at one time the entire railroad area was covered in ferns. I still have some pop up every spring 
The moss experiment continues. Time will tell if I wasted my time or not. I’m going to transplant moss around the Parrothead Interlocking, then take a break and see if the moss lives before doing any further transplanting. My wife suggested waiting until Summer. The idea being that any moss still alive at that time would obviously be heat tolerant. Ralph
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Looking better. I found the best time to do moss is fall and spring.
Most of the moss I placed around Deep Cut during the spring/summer rebuild last year is greening up nicely. I have lots of varieties growning naturally around my house but I like the stuff that looks like tiny ferns best…
Nice shot Jon. Looks like the LCL dock will add some nice ops. for you.
An old gardening trick is to take moss and yogurt. Throw into a old blender (key here is old, not your wife’s blender), and then spread the mixture on rocks, etc. Keep damp like you would for grass seed.
Bob, Buttermilk was mentioned on a thread here a while back. I plan on trying that on some of my high gravel roadbeds. But I have to wait until I’m done with the track work.
Jon Radder said:
Most of the moss I placed around Deep Cut during the spring/summer rebuild last year is greening up nicely. I have lots of varieties growning naturally around my house but I like the stuff that looks like tiny ferns best…
Cool picture, Jon. I have some of that type moss too. But where I’m putting the moss now I need the short variety as it might get stepped on from time to time.
Well I sure hope this works out. Looks much better than before. This is about all I’m going to transplant for now. Next I’m going to try the buttermilk/blender trick. But first I have to buy the wife a new blender 
Ralph
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That looks pretty good. If my experience is valid, it might take a year or more before you know for sure. The moss I transplanted mid-summer last year browned up a lot despite constant watering. This spring most of it is greening up nicely.
nice
Looks good Ralph
I really like that way that looks. Plus inside the curve with the pine ect… looks really cool
That looks good. Just remember how slow moss grew where it grew naturally. It’s going to be awhile before it’s happy in its new home!