Summary: Construct an entire town for your electric trains. Learn how to route Circulation for a model train layout in this free train hobby video.
For the past seven years, Kevin Blakeney has been creating village displays of all sizes in retail and residential settings throughout Southern California. Through his experience, he...read more
"My name is Kevin Blakeney and on behalf of Expert Village, we are now going to show how to add circulation such as pedestrians and automobile to your model railroad village. Circulation is a landscape architectural term referring as any path of travel. Taking by people or automobiles. Now these are important and concerted also even in this small scale because you want to make it as realistic as possible. Face it you are spending a lot of money for your display depending on how big it is. You want to put as much detail as possible and your time is worth a lot of money as well. So now you have to consider all the residence of your model train village and the cars that they are going to use. You want to leave space for roads and pathways and access to all the buildings. Now if you don't want to get as detailed you can do a main road, forget the pedestrians circulation all together. But for the most part in model train railroad villages you want to keep everything in scale. You want to keep everything in mind that way it looks as detailed and as well thought out as possible. That is landscape agricultural on a whole but on a much smaller level. "
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evuser7497 said
on 5/20/2009 Well done! You really know your stuff and seem very sincere and professional!