Coyote Canyon Scenery
Yes, it's been quiet on the blog, but work certainly has been happening! Of note, the C-19 bug allowed for more evenings and weekends at home to tackle a massive project. Let me explain... The layout is double decked, without a helix to get between the decks. Well, actually, it is TRIPLE decked at the staging yard, so there IS a helix to get to that from one end. But there are no helixes between the visible decks. This was done to allow the operators to really follow their trains from point to point. But even with a "no-lix" connection, it also means there has to be a transition from where the connection between the lower deck and the upper deck... which means the scenery for some of that run will have to be associated with the lower deck, and then later with the upper deck. That makes for an interesting scenic transition. The way this is being handled on the GNW is having the lower deck include the first portion of the ramp up in the scenery with the lower deck, t