Watching Ed Rappe and working on his layout, I have learned that using rosin paper is a quick way to get some sense of the land form one wants to have. So, last week Jack Brown and Paul Cierzo worked on building the hillside leading up to Mt. Carmel. they first put up some cardboard webbing and then added the rosin paper.
These are two views of their work leading up to the top of the grade. This stretch of about 25 feet took them one evening
Looking back down to the Narrows, Ed and I worked on the hillside here. I redid some earlier work to get a better look - shown by this photo through the cut
This is a view back top the rest of the narrows showing the rosin paper and the webbing in the distance. That is what holds everything up. We use a hot glue gun to place the webbing and then glue the paper to that.
A closer look. You can easily see the PRR track and the upper shelf is the Reading Company track.
This is a close up view of the webbing and placing the rosin paper in place. I still have blisters where I got the hot glue on my fingers - gosh is that painful! The indentation in the hill is for the gas station that was there.
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