The mighty articulated locomotive is hauling a mixed goods train over a scale model of a real viaduct that is 500mm long on the layout and 75 metres high in real life. Again the painted backscene shows how real depth can be added to a scene. There is a 500mm gap between the viaduct and the backscene to enable me to walk right around the layout. The effect of a deep canyon is in no part due to my skill as a landscape artist

in creating tonal depth.