Before I started to model the various landscape features on my layout, I gathered several pictures of similar features in real life.
Here is a photo of a modern viaduct that takes railroad tracks over a highway.
By using this approach, I will be able to better duplicate the details of actual railroad implementations of the bridges, trestles and viaducts. The only risk is that I will make my layout look more modern than the actual 1950's implementation of these features. To avoid these problems, I had to do some more reading and browsing the web for period photographs.
Once I had this information I was ready to start building the mountain ...
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