Model Railroading on the Cheap

Hopefully this post will help your understanding of how this scheme may work elsewhere. Remember, on the backs of the tall buildings at Holden City (lower level) shown above, are the single story businesses of Hillton on the upper level.

Now we move the camera to outside the operation pit to see the other side of the tall buildings.

    Now with the camera outside the pit at the town of Hillton on the upper level, we see the rail-served businesses consisting of a refrigerated storage facility, which can also handle highway trucks and a dry goods warehouse. These single story business flats are mounted on the back sides of the tall buildings of Holden City, track elevation 0. The tracks of Hillton are about 8 inches elevation.

    Multi-level layouts often have a problem of how to deal with the scenery where the track terrain transitions from one level to two. This space-saving trick using tall city buildings worked well for me. This is how I did my two level scenery transition. All these building flats were drawn on the computer with the Windows Paint program, printed on card stock paper with an inkjet printer, cut with scissors and pasted to .060 inch thick plastic panels with Walthers Goo, spread with a scrap of card board.