Farm Scene

Since I've grew up and lived most of my life in the city, I've always preferred to model urban scenes. Often I'd wonder ,"what's the big deal about rural scenery?" Tall buildings, crowded streets and murky canals are what I aspired to model for years. I still do enjoy that kind of scene; one day I plan on using my Proto 1000 NYC Subway cars and build an entire layout of just tunnels to run them.

But lately, since I've embarked on this modern day layout set in Iowa and Illinois, I've come to appreciate some green open spaces. It must be the same reason I enjoy trains in general - the simplicity, two rails, the train and land as far as you can see. I guess it also comes down to the idea of "write what you know"; since we've moved to Connecticut from NY a few years ago, I've been around more open spaces, more nature.

Anyhow, the above pic is what I've been working on lately. This scene still needs work; I need to replace the tree to the right and work on the background some more as well as weather that tractor.