Ok this weeks post will be kind of short as I have been on a mini vacation and by the title I bet you can guess where. Now as far as I can tell from my google searches and comments made by those who have lived in Lost Wages, model railroading here is viewed as the rest of the hobby views N scale (it is dead remember). Ok, ok, so maybe its not really dead but just like N scale its lost in the modern hobby world.
Anyway with no train shops or train clubs on the strip how is this train related? Well for starters the route we take parallels the BNSF Transcon for a bit, and we got to see lots of action there, but thats still not it.
I want to talk about backgrounds and scenery. Now how did this come about, well anyone that has been in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, the shops at the Venetian Grand Canal Shoppes or the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood knows, well at least those who took the time to look away from the celebrity impersonators, showgirls and inappropriately attired housewives and sorority sisters and look up. Inside these buildings are skyscapes so realistic that you sometimes forget you are indoors. Now I have no clue how these were created but they are inspiring to those of us trying to recreate the real world.
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| The Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian |
I have sometimes wondered if the realism was an effect of being viewed from a far distance as most these shopping areas are close to three stories tall inside (the 3 story rule). But as we were waiting in line to see a show featuring one of the aforementioned celebrity impersonators (one might say the King of them) on the second floor of the Miracle Mile Shops, I took the time to look up and the effect was still rather impressive.
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| The Miracle Mile Shops from the second floor. |
I guess my message this week is sometimes our journeys take us away from the trains but that does not mean we can't find inspiration in these trips.
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