THE GILBERT HALL American Flyer, Инструкция по эксплуатации и сборке

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SCENERY ALONG THE RIGHT OF WAY
With the expenditure of a small amount of money an astonishing variety
of scenic effects can be constructed. Railroad yards, highways, farms, forests,
and mountains are easily built with ordinary household materials.
Additional realism can be obtained by adding train and station figures,
highway and railroad signs, park benches, mail boxes, etc. around your layout.
For this American Flyer has a complete line, consisting of
No.
578 Station
Figure Set,
No.
30 Highway Signs,
No.
31 Railroad Signs,
No.
32 City
Street Equipment
and
No. 33 Station Figures.
They are all hand painted
miniatures of the real thing.
I n one section
of
your layout you will want your railroad yard with its
No. 593 Signal Tower
and
No. 774 Floodlight Tower
commanding a
view of your switch layout. On sidings you can have your steel scrap yard and
a
No. 583A
Electromatic Crane
for loading your Gondola Cars. Several
large oil storage tanks can be made from sections of round cardboard boxes
used for oats or salt. This set up against a background of tenement houses
should make a realistic setting.
By the use of several
No. 773 Oil Derricks
along with the
No. 768
Oil Supply Depot,
a real oil field scene can be built up. Have this on one
section of the layout and use a long string of tank cars hauled by a No. 370
General Purpose Diesel
switcher, and the scene cannot be beaten for realism.
On the highway leading out of the railroad yard where it crosses the
tracks a
No.
592A Crossing Gate could be used, blocking the path
of
small
automobiles, such as are found in any Toy Store, while your train passes.
With the help of log and coal loaders, automatic dump cars, stock yards
and loading platforms, stations, bridges, various types
of
semaphores, mini-
ature diners, watertanks and tunnels, an actual working scene can be built
which can match even the most vivid imagination. The highways are made
of strips of wood painted a grayish white, its seams marked off with black
paint, representing tar.
Country roads, driveways, and paths can be made by applying a coating
of glue or shellac to the surface, and sprinkling American Flyer’s
No.
22
Scenery Gravel
on it. Along the highway a fence can be constructed of thin
wood shaped up with a penknife and glued together.
The highway could lead to a rural section, where trees and foliage can
be assembled, using a supply of twigs and dry weed roots. These pieces
should be dipped in shellac and, when tacky, shaken around in a cardboard
box containing finely chopped-up yarn
of
suitable shades
of
green.
Beautiful green fields and lawns are quite easy to make when using Ameri-
can
Flyer’s
No,
21
Imitation Grass. Just paint the surface
to
be covered
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