Something I've been considering for a while with no actual action, is what to do about the tunnel under Wassen's church. I've been back and forth over two options:
- Have a normal tunnel portal - the 'main street' will disappear behind the hill, the church sits on the hill, and a grassy slope runs down from it to the tunnel portal
- Have the main road road run in front of all this on a bridge which hides the tunnel portal. The Church is on the hill and the grassy slope runs down to the bridge as usual.
There are pros and cons for both.
In the real Wassen, there is a big motorway that runs between the town's main street and the railway. It crosses the railway on a bridge in front of the tunnel we are discussing, and runs along and just above the railway, crossing over the Wattinger tunnel and Reuess river on another bridge. I've marked it in blue in the map below.
On the layout, I have pulled out my artistic licence (which seems to have expired) and 'merged' the two roads - with the south end bridge over the creek and the upper Wattinger bridge as it should be, merging into the main road through town. In the below mockup, it then continues as the 'motorway' again over the Muhle tunnel portal.
In the real Wassen, there is a big motorway that runs between the town's main street and the railway. It crosses the railway on a bridge in front of the tunnel we are discussing, and runs along and just above the railway, crossing over the Wattinger tunnel and Reuess river on another bridge. I've marked it in blue in the map below.
On the layout, I have pulled out my artistic licence (which seems to have expired) and 'merged' the two roads - with the south end bridge over the creek and the upper Wattinger bridge as it should be, merging into the main road through town. In the below mockup, it then continues as the 'motorway' again over the Muhle tunnel portal.
This is reasonably realistic. It provides a visual break between the church and the railway (in the real thing the church should be higher above the rail level of course.
On the downside, the bridge takes 50 cm of an already short run of visible track on the lower level and hides it, making this the most difficult piece of the layout's track to clean.
Another negative is that being lightly coloured, it might make the vertical 'gap' between the tunnel and the church seem too small (underscoring the church not being perched high enough in the sky.)
It might be the latter that causes me to change my mind (now that I've already started building it).
As you can see, I've also started placing some mockups of building locations just to see what the town might look like.
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| Wassen looking south from the Church end - the main road through the middle of the pic, the motorway further left. Pic stolen from Vikas Chander |
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