SVL Photo Collection

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Scenery Area 1

The first set of photos presented here are of scenes in the 39+ square feet of scenery that I prepared for judging for the NMRA
Achievment Program Scenery certificate. Some of the photos were taken during the scenery development process.

Shovels on rack next to ash pit	Stevedore warming shed	Fence	Coal pit doors under coal tipple
Pier retaining wall and dolphin	Coal tipple	Sand bin and sand tower	Lower concrete wall
Upper concrete wall	Dynamited mountainside	Men at work signs on ends of A and D tracks	CA Reed building abbutted to mirror-UGLY gap
CA Reed building abbutted to piece of 5mm Graphix™ mylar-NO gap	Lady on picnic bench	Worker exiting digital print building	Fireplug
Fence along clean out track	Clean out track	Aerial view of cleanout track	Turntable
Riverside Yard	Pier retaining wall	Stream photo attached to backdrop to extend stream back into the hills	Stream photo attached to backdrop to extend stream back into the hills
Trees used to mask edges of photo	Trees above end of clean out track	Dolphin near end of car float	Stream
Stream	Wooden retaining wall	Approach and reacher tracks in front of car float apron	Rischel Furniture building in Newberry Industrial Area
Mountain with branch line and two main line tracks	Trees	Trees	Loading dock along team track in Newberry Industrial Area
CA Reed and Lowery Electric buildings in Newberry Industrial Area	Mountains

Scenery Area 2

Scenery Area 2 is a composite of three smaller scenery areas and stretches along the south wall of the layout room. This area connects on the left end with Scenery Area 1
(my NMRA AP Scenery certificate area)

Section A

Section A is located along the double track main line of the SVL layout and encompasses the Pine Street Industrial Area. In this industrial area are two major industries each having direct access to sidings. The Lehman Freight building also has a truck loading dock. The second building the Raub Supply Company has a long loading dock with an extension to the west. The tree between the two buildings is where William Penn signed the paperwork to create the state of Pennsylvania (i.e. Penn's woods)

Looking along Section 2 at Lehman Freight in the distance	Lehman Freight Building	Raub Supply Building	Cow pasture
Raub parking lot	William Penn tree	Picnic table outside Lehman freight	Loading Dock at Lehman Freight Building
Stone wall above Raub Supply parking lot	Track extension beyond Raub Supply

Section B

Section B is located in the SW corner of the layout and is not as large as Section 1. The near edge of Section B is about 34-inches
back from the edge of the fascia. Which means that some of the details shown in the photos below are not as viewable from the floor of the layout room as they are in the photos below. But it was an area in which I experimented with new scenery techniques which I did not have to employ in Scenery Area 1. Among there were.

• Lawn grass
• Asphalt parking lot
• Concrete roadway
• Retaining wall - non-concrete

In general I am pleased with how each of these scenery techniques worked and each provided a good learning experience and notes for improving the techniques involved.

The content of Section 3 is based around 2 Walthers kits that I fell in love with and wanted to incorporate in the layout somewhere. The siding track in this area is a truncated branch line that used to run from Williamsport PA up to Lock Haven PA. The line was deactivated many years ago and the stub end of it near Williamsport proved a nice siding for a small business i.e. the PA Farm Coop store. With limited parking area the Antiques Barn seemed like a reasonable non-siding business to install here.
In the front area of Scenery Section 3 is a fenced in cow pasture which was great fun to construct and populate.

Steel beam and used RR tie wall	Aerial View 1	Aerial View 2	Aerial View 3
Front view	Mountain view 1	Mountain view 2	PA Farm Coop store
Antiques barn	Truncated branch line	Parking lot and approach street

Section C

Section C sits just below the cow pasture and extends down to the fascia in this area, and encompasses a small playground with a parking lot.

Yard Limit sign RR tie wall	NO Trespassing sign	West end of playground area	East end of playground area
Playground parking lot and Raub Supply building RR tie wall	Scenery Section 4 in the foreground and Scenery Section 3 in the background	Bench under tree in playground area

Scenery Area 3

Scenery Area 3 includes three large industrial buildings which are located on the south side of the peinsula which juts out into the layout room from the NW corner of the room. This section is still a work in progress as i have not finished all three buildings at this time 8/20/26.

Three large unweathered industrial buildings as seen from the near side of the peninsula	Three large unweathered industrial buildings as seen from across the peninsula	Initial placement of the Williamsport Sun-Gazette and Sears Roebuck shared building	Loading dock construction process
Finished Williamsport Sun- Gazette and Sears Roebuck shared building	Williamsport Sun-Gazetette and Sears Roebuck building with loading docks installed

Scenery Area 4

Scenery Area 4 is a montage of pictures illustrating how I developed the mountains that go along a 7-foot long section the west wall of the layout room.These mountains are exactly like the mountains I've installed on other areas of the layout. The tree construction process is summarized on the Construction page of this web site. I have eliminated some of the steps in the process shown there. Overall I am exceedingly pleased with how all the mountains surrounding Williamsport, PA have come out.

The base of the mountains is made of stacked pieces of 0.5", 0.75", and 1.0" thick foam insulation board. I shape the pieces of foam insulation board with a coarse rasp or a hot wire gun. I use Liquid Nail Panel Adhesive for securing the layers of foam insulation board together as I make the mountains. I use Sculptamold, a paper-mache like product, to creat the ground layer for the mountains. After the Sculptamold has thoroughly dried I paint the ground with a paint that is color matched to the ground I photographed near Hershey, PA a long tme ago.The dark painted area above the mountains in the second row of photos represents the dense forest behind my trees where I hand painted trees ddirectly on the backdrop. Above that dark area is somewhat lighter colored paint representing far off mountain ridges. I use Timberline Scenery - Forest Floor and various colors of Woodland Scenics Clump-Foliage as my ground cover.

Instead of showing all the photos I have I've selected serveral showing the various steps of my mountain making process and have roughly divided the 7-foot long stretch into 4 ontiguous areas.

Mountain profile with foam insulation board, area 1	Same as previous, area 4	Initial installation of Sculptamold, area 1	Same as previous, area 3
Painted Sculptamold, area 1	Same as previous, area 4	Area behind my trees and far off mountains area 1	Same as previous, area 3
Ground cover installation area 1	Same as previous, area 2	Small bushes installed in ditch adjacent to the tracks, area 1	Same as previous, area 2
Trees, area 1	Same as previous, area 2	Same as previous area 4