Here is a quick sketch of my final touches to the layout. I have decided to add a mine entrance and a small rail system that will lead to the coal depot. I will just use some rails taken from some of my extra track to create the rail system. it won't actually be a working rail, and I'm still trying to figure out how I am going to create the carts.
after posting my progress on modeltrainforum.com, a contributor mentioned something I had kind of put aside. Tunnel portals. I wanted to build my own and go for a rustic mining feel but never found the information I wanted. I then started doing some backward research, looking up types of wood for small things like doll houses, then how to age them. I finally came to balsa/bass wood and some aging techniques that I think will work really well.
Here are some sample ideas for the tunnel portals
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