Masking portals

[Xengeance]

If you have a route that makes use of portals, what are some nice ways of 'masking' the fact it is a portal - such that it would blend seamlessly into the rest of the scenery and not be a magical train-spawning trackend, other than the 'tunnel in the side of a mountain' approach, especially in cases where a mountain would be laughably inconceivable, such as a port or wide, flat tracts of land?

 

[hert]

Theres a good asset (cant remember the name) but its a factory with a cut out for the portal. This is good for industrial areas where you want a portal. Also using a tunnel to an empty baseboard works too.

hert:wave:

 

[Dap]

First, use a portal that does not have the tunnel. Then surround it with trees and undergrowth. I have done this several places on my revised Huron Central route. This is an imaginary route on the upper midwest plains where there is no mountain to hide a tunnel.

View of Train emerging from portal

View from Gravel Pit - portal is on the right behind the trees.

View2 of train emerging

View 3 of train emerging

 

[Yorkshire]

Here is a pic of my portal entry - I use portal basic and place a tunnel mouth about a third of the way down the portal track. This means you can cover the track with ground and use a dighole in the terrain. You can also attach a tunnel bore to the tunnel mouth.

Yorkshire