On my previous layout, I never got around to a level of detail that would incorporate utility poles and and wires. What do most of you do about such things? Ignore them compeletely? Model the poles and forget about the wires? Go for the whole thing? And if the last, what do you use for the wire?
It doesn't seem to me that an isolated single track mainline from earlier times is going to look right without an entourage of utility poles carrying a bunch of open wire on glass insulators. But the thought of stringing all that wire is a bit daunting. And imagining keeping it intact with hands reaching across the layout for various things is downright frightening.
Is there an easy answer? Or is this a case where you just "bite the bullet and do it?"