Buildings & Pictures For Your Backdrops

A backdrop is a vertical surface behind your trackwork that is used to extend the concept and vision of your railroad layout. The backdrop may contain a scene from very far away to immediately behind the horizontal railroad and scenery. The scenery may show mountains, wooded hillsides, or other natural scenes, or man-made urban views.
Adding a backdrop to your model railroad is one of the simplest and most effective ways to enhance its overall appearance. The backdrop helps set the context in which the railroad operates.

Click the thumnail pictures below to see a larger view of the use of backdrops.
Learn how to build backdrops using commercial sources and pictures from the internet. PDF1 (1.7MB)
Download pictures that you can use on your layout. Click here.

Learn how to make sky and clouds

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