Album: 6/5/2013 update

My original plan was to have the South Expressway overpass cross the tracks at this location. However, after working on the scenery here, I came to the conclusion that trying to fit the depot, overpass, and Ready Mixed plant seen in the previous photo was too much, and didn't leave me with a way to tie the depot or Ready Mixed lots into adjacent streets. Instead, they were just going to dead-end into the overpass piers.

To open things up and increase realism, I decided to do away with the overpass, and instead model 8th St., crossing the tracks at grade just beyond the utility pole. An added bonus of this approach is that the grade crossing will offer more operational interest than the overpass. Prototype engineers in this area are on the horn a lot between 16th Ave. and Pool Yard, and the two crossings I was originally planning to model didn't do a good job of recreating that.
By: Joe Atkinson

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My original plan was to have the South Expressway overpass cross the tracks at this location. However, after working on the scenery here, I came to the conclusion that trying to fit the depot, overpass, and Ready Mixed plant seen in the previous photo was too much, and didn't leave me with a way to tie the depot or Ready Mixed lots into adjacent streets. Instead, they were just going to dead-end into the overpass piers. To open things up and increase realism, I decided to do away with the overpass, and instead model 8th St., crossing the tracks at grade just beyond the utility pole. An added bonus of this approach is that the grade crossing will offer more operational interest than the overpass. Prototype engineers in this area are on the horn a lot between 16th Ave. and Pool Yard, and the two crossings I was originally planning to model didn't do a good job of recreating that.
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