The Atlantic and Southern Build Thread Continued, Part 3

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[PRR Modeler]

The banks look appropriately mucky.

[ACL1504]

Eighty orange trees total.

[ACL1504]

The banks look appropriately mucky.

Curt,

The river banks will look much better when I get them finished. Thanks for stopping by.

Tom

[Jerry]

Tom can't wait for the finished river it looks great already.


You know what they say an apple a day keeps the Doc away!!
Beautiful orchard!


Jerry

[Mark Dalrymple]

The orange trees look quite neat, and also unique for a model railroad.

Looking good.

Cheers, Mark.

[Judge]

Jerry - Orange trees are planted in "groves," not "orchards." 

[T.C.]

Not to criticize as your work is very well done and I really enjoy and look forward to your post and work, so please dont take this the wrong way, and they may very well do things differently up you way.
I know from living in the middle of a grove for many years that down here in the Ft. Pierce area they only clean around under the trees and the rest of the grove is usually overgrown. Until harvest time then they mow it all. The trees are also usually on high ground so it almost looks like ditches in between the rows of trees .
Just and observation not to criticize .
T.C.

[Keep It Rusty]

TC — just to add my two cents: I always say that unless you are building a prototype, it's purely a matter of what you prefer. I say this because everything I produce isn't accurate to the era it leans toward. In fact, on close scrutiny, you'll probably find a vast amount of inaccuracies. It's an art and creative license is what leads — sometimes a well kept orange grove is what might fit best!

Just to be clear, this isn't a criticism of your fair comment. Just my thoughts

[Judge]

"T. C." - We kept our groves in more pristine condition here in ORANGE COUNTY.  The groves were well-manicured.  While I do remember seeing a few groves with weeds etc growing between the trees, they were the exception rather than the rule. 

Of course, the winter of 1983 killed most of the citrus in Central Florida and the grove owners figured out it was more profitable to develop the land instead of growing citrus.  Very few orange trees around here today. But a lot more millionaires.   

[T.C.]

Like I said not a criticism and I'm not trying to be a rivet counter just saying what I saw and lived, I lived in the middle of an orange grove for over ten years here on the Treasure Coast home of Indian River fruit, probably the best orange and grape fruit in the world.Judge I do realize that different places do things differently so probably neither of us is wrong.
Also what Rusty Robot is saying about being exact I do agree with, I am a firm believer in it's your RR and you only have to make yourself happy .
If it were mine  I would have dirt roads (trails) in the grass between the rows of trees with a small area under the trees cleaned up. I would also shape the terrain so the trees were on high ground.
I know, I know it's not mine !  LOL T.C.

[ACL1504]

Tom can't wait for the finished river it looks great already.


You know what they say an apple a day keeps the Doc away!!
Beautiful orchard!


Jerry

Jerry,

Thank you, much appreciated. I'm getting to the point that I can finally start some scenery by the river.

Tom 

[ACL1504]

The orange trees look quite neat, and also unique for a model railroad.

Looking good.

Cheers, Mark.

Cheers Mark,

I had to have some citrus on the Atlantic and Southern. Since this is a Florida layout, it just seemed natural.

Tom 

[postalkarl]

Hey Tom:

The orchard loom great. Look like another 80 trees. Am I close?

Karl

[ACL1504]

Not to criticize as your work is very well done and I really enjoy and look forward to your post and work, so please dont take this the wrong way, and they may very well do things differently up you way.
I know from living in the middle of a grove for many years that down here in the Ft. Pierce area they only clean around under the trees and the rest of the grove is usually overgrown. Until harvest time then they mow it all. The trees are also usually on high ground so it almost looks like ditches in between the rows of trees .
Just and observation not to criticize .
T.C.

TC,

Any and all criticism and opinions are most welcome on the A&S thread. I've never been offended by any comments to the thread. As you know we have to use some modelers license in modeling a layout.  Call it selective compression if you will.

When I first planned the orange grove area, I had about half the trees you see now. I didn't look much like a grove at that time,  so, I added more. This prohibited me from adding more ground details.

The Judge mentioned that we have a "clean grove". One could say that but the truth is I just didn't think about making tractor tracks and allowing weeds to grow between the trees.

Having been born and growing up in Central Florida, I've had my share of "citrus lips". One can only get citrus lips from playing in the groves, biting the top off and orange and then sucking out the juice. Of course, you also get the citric acid from the peel on you mouth, thus "citrus lips".

I appreciate you taking the time to post a comment.

Tom