Has anyone every modeled a subway? I guess it would a real challenge to see? Just a off-the-wall question.
Hmmm. Mike, you have an interesting idea.
I see a to-scale subway light board showing a myriad of multi-colored routes. Observers, and those with power controllers and time table, watch the board for the train movements. Let’s see: A subway train leaves Union Station on the Blue Line, moves rapidly onto the Green Line and takes a siding for the on-coming subway seeking passage eventually through Union Station via the Red Line.
Meanwhile…
No scale discussions, no scenery, no prototypical debates – just the board following the train movements and consequences of time tables, people, and trains.
Wendell
Subways could actually be modeled quite easily… Just make false stairs leading down into the ground on a few street corners… 
Or, one could just build a rock garden, and make false steps going down into the ground at different locations…
Actually, if your modeling a city, you could build a subway under the city, with one or two stops showing in a ““Picture Box”” type thing under the layout, and having a subway run as a back and forth, past each station into a tunnel, stop, then reverse… Even a 2-car subway would make a good train…
On the way home from Dalton, Ga stopped in at Entertrainment Junction at west Chester, Ohio (right off I-75), they have a huge largescale layout including a subway system, pretty neat.
Fred-
My guess is the subway system is shown with cutaway tunnels - as would an ant farm showing the tunnels against the glass. Close?
Wendell
I have seen photos of N scale TTrak Japanese subway modules. TTrak started in Japan.
Roger
Right Wendell, you see the subway underground & the parking lots on top have “esculators” & stairs going down, very realistic.
Fred-
I now picture a homeowner’s yard with a hillside bank with cutouts and a series of tracks – doubles and singles - with the operations electrically mimicked on an LED light board. Anyone model such an effort in “G”?
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Tom,
That’s great! That carries “arm chair modeling” one step further.
The late John Allen had a subway modeled on the last version of the Gorre &Defitid. It was a sidewalk stair like the above model but he also had a speaker under the table playing recorded subway station sounds. It was a very effective effect according to those who saw it .