Thank you very much and a happy new year to you too!

Hello Reinhard---Happy New Year---your scenes are a real inspiration to us '' wannabe" modellers,thank you

The walls and fences in front of the buildings really do add an interesting scenic element. Very nice! Happy New Year!!

Hi reinhard, that's coming along very nicely. Happy new year from me too. Hope to see those geeps in action along this industry soon :-)

Koos

Thanks for the kind words and a happy new year to all of you

This is an interesting link about a historic brick building. There is a lot of damage but the bricks of the front still look very good. Well done brick walls are very durable. The other wall elements (none bricks) did suffer over the years significant.
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/...-54584.php

At the west end is a free space used as a parking lot. Structures have been placed more dense at "brick time". That gives me the opportunity to place a special shaped small building and a brick wall. My intention is to create a tight yard instead of a free pane.

This is a very first test. The small building spans the boarder of the hatch. It must be removable installed. Some oil at the very bottom of the plastic walls and a tight fit into white glue based ground cover should act as a bed to sit in but still have the option to lift it out.

A little paint and set into the ground. Will wait at least two days before I force the building out of the ground cover.

The yard office from freelance 2012 has been replaced with a brick made freight house that got plain rear wall to be placed at the layout edge. The photo is my view over the west end of the layout from my chair. I am visual locked out by a white wall.... again the nasty problem with structures in the foreground.
I am thinking about two options a) a flat roof would reduce the blocker hight b) a nice building interior instead a white wall is still a blocker but a nicer one.

A freight house would normally have a loading track (or several parallel ones) next to it. You might want to adjust the position of this one farther toward you from where you took the photo so it might face on one of the yard tracks in that area. Or figure out a different use for that piece of real estate -- a metal recycler might be one option. It would have foreground visual interest, but it wouldn't be as high.

Specific railroad scrap would be another option. This area on my layout, which is due for some enhancement as other scenery gets closer, was inspired by a visit to Larry's Truck and Electric in McDonald, OH:
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The idea was especially appealing to me since I have lots of old cheap plastic diesel bodies from old kitbash projects.

Go with the flat roof, and nice interior.

I did see in LA a lot of very simple flat small industry buildings. Their front looks as simple as a garage. One of may examples is East 7.th Place between Mateo St. and Wilson St. in LA.
https://maps.google.de/maps?q=vernon+cal...e&t=h&z=21

I had something similar on my 2011 layout


Two questions
1. Are those simple structures all over the US and can be found in Chicago and Conrail area in general too?
2. How old are they? Do they fit into 1980, 1970, 1960, 1950 ....?

Yes, they're all over, and they fit all eras.

Reinhard your layout just keeps getting better and better.

Tyson, John, thanks. I will go with those flat buildings. Do not know why but I like them very much.

faraway Wrote:Two questions
1. Are those simple structures all over the US and can be found in Chicago and Conrail area in general too?
2. How old are they? Do they fit into 1980, 1970, 1960, 1950 ....?

They are everywhere here in the rust belt/coal regions. One of the better sights around