MODEL PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR Portland cement scenery Using construction cement to recreate stone and cement/Richard Todd S
ome projects on the railroad take on a life of their own, but prepar- ing for this article created a mon-
ster. My son Ryan and I had stumbled upon Portland cement as a useful prod- uct for scenery when we modeled the Scotia Bluffs, a rugged stretch on the northern end of the Northwestern Pa- cific Railroad along the Eel River in California. Unfortunately, we hadn’t taken enough photos with a good- enough camera to adequately illus- trate the process. We had talked about including a scene from my color slides with an abandoned trestle, plus an an- gled rock face done from aerial photos of the Bluffs’ area. As good as the idea was, we did not have enough photos for the article, so we moved on to the next section of our HO scale NWP layout. Now construction of the area is com-
plete, and we took new photos for this article. I thought it might take a month to complete the scene. Foolish me, it took four months, but it is now a great addition to the layout. You never know
RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN
ROBERT HOGAN: SCOTIA BLUFFS, CA; JUNE 1961
The Scotia Bluffs is a natural landmark (above) on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. The steep cliffs tower over the Eel River, and the railroad’s tracks run along the limestone base. Much of this trackage is built on trestles to keep the trains operating during flood- ing. The author decided to model a section the bluffs (top) on his NWP layout.
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