Town Construction for Model Train Layouts

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Bob Lanning. I'm here to tell you about making a train diorama in HO scale. Carpdale was started because when they built the open pit, they needed to have a town that supported all the employees for the used smelter. It was one of the first planned villages in Arizona and Senator Clark had many bucks and built the whole town and it had a sewer system, a civic center, so we represented that by the way of photographing the original buildings and old period photographs in our files to represent the old downtown area of Carpdale, made out of pasteboard buildings and some using Adobe Photoshop for the materials on the little company houses. And, the stores and the theater are all made out of pasteboard, and of course we have period vehicles on the streets. You can see the old Texaco gas station, it was there, and the church, which was a mission church for the Catholic church, and the school, and it's a pretty close representation of what is still there today. You can see, it hasn't changed much. We also have a little humor here, we have an accident somewhere, the guy's driven through the wood fence at the top of the cliff, and you can see the little Model T down there, he's hanging over there, the windshield's laying on the ground and we have an ambulance there, spectators, and the police are there, even a policeman eating a dough nut with a period police car from the 50's."