Your steel trestle looks fantastic, I have the same N scale trestle for my layout and will save your photos for inspiration, really like the cliffs and trees. Joe
Joe, Thank you. I did modify the trestle a bit. The Micro-Engineering N-scale steel trestle comes with solid plastic legs on the tower sections. I cut those off and replaced them with pieces of HO scale Central Valley Bridge components to get that open lattice appearance on the vertical legs. The cross bracing on the legs are from the original ME towers. I also shortened the height, as I did not think a deep valley would look plausible, considering the general New England style topography I am modeling. Here is a closer shot of the leg detail I am referring to.
The trestle towers are well done ✅, would have never known they have HO parts until you told us. My layout is set in northwest Arkansas in the Boston Mountains a range of the Ozark Mountains where there's several cliffs, high mountains and covered with trees. Much like you have done on your layout. Your layout would look right at home in the Ozarks too. Nice job! Joe
I too found those smaller HO Central Valley Bridge components perfect for my N scale projects. Here they were used for water tower legs.
That was an outstanding use of those Central Valley bridge parts. That water tower is a signature element of your layout that I have often admired!
Why balloons on golf spikes don't topple during hurricanes is beyond me, but they survived Katrina, and numerous tornados.
The newer ones I have seen seem to be built to look more like this. A steel tank on top of a concrete cylinder. More like a child proof cap on a medicine bottle that we old codgers hate so much.
We have lots of these. They seem to survive. Apparently I don't understand ball tank aerodynamic forces in hurricanes. Oh well.
What a cool idea making it an Magical Eight Ball. Where is that? Can you ask it " Will I survive the next storm"? BTW, this made me spend 20 minutes reading the invention of the Magical 8 Ball Thanks, more wasted time... J/K
I'd be more worried about the giant golf club swinging down at transsonic speeds whacking that thing off. If you hear a very loud, echoing "FORE!!!!", dive into the nearest storm cellar...
Not only eight balls. Yellow Happy Faces as well. For modeling I have a yellow foam smiley face on a golf tee. They were used on car antennas, way back when.
