occupies the narrow space between the kitchen cabinets and the ceiling, a full 7 vertical inches for scenery. This allows, with some tunnels in the walls, for a full loop of about a scale mile. Because of the space limitations, the entire thing is modular, built on small sheets of plywood and moved into place. The biggest problem is the 180 degree curves, as the cabinets are too narrow for a full curve. Solution: more tunnels in the walls.

The scenery consists of islands of scenery built as small pieces and placed on top of the track modules. Since you can't see the entire thing due to the point of view lower than the model, I can take short-cuts with the scenery. Also, as to not clutter up the kitchen, only a few short sections have any scenery at all. The rest of the track you cannot see unless there is a train on the tracks.

Most of the engines, rolling stock, and buldings are the remnants of my childhood 4' x 8' layout, long since destroyed. I don't work on it much, and usually only run it if we have company, especially kids. Now and again I'll waste a sunday afternoon putting together another small hill, usually with a geologic feature, naturally. The last one built was a small hill with a quarry for sandstone building materials. I use some N gage track in that model to mimic small scale tracks used in mining operations.

When I find time again, I'd like to add a mine, not just the building with hoist and assay shed and all, but create a couple of hundred foot (scale) shaft with stopes, drifts, and cross-cuts. It'd be just a bit different than the computer models of mines I do for woek.

No pictures possible just now. Lost my FTP space. Still working on getting a new one.