Label: Jus' walkin' down the street    

This week we look at some more details about the current project. Besides railroad track, we are also working on streets. The streets back in the day were simply dirt or chert or clay or sand or crushed sea shell. In Murphysboro, after the initial dirt or clay streets, the city laid down paving brick. That is correct, brick. Similar to what is used in house construction. The bricks were made in a brick plant located south east of town. The company made bricks for many municipalities all over the United States. And as you might surmise, after the advent of Macadam roads (asphalt), the company became less important and eventually closed. What this means for the Omega Scale module of said town is that we had the need to ascertain what tones and colors are needed to simulate a paving brick road. Should we indicate each and every brick. Oh no! We ain't gonna do that! We think that would take forever! So what we decided was to use a textured surface with a variation in tones. So far, so good. Yours again, a relieved omscaler