Reinhard that's a great looking abandoned GM car! My 1st car was a '49 2 door Chevy "whale back".

The Ohio grassland needs a conversion too. But I need a place without delicate details to grip the removable element and made the scenery removable too.


and put the foundation walls of three buildings in place.


I got the advantage to do the details at my desk. This very few brick walls toke about 4 hours to be built stone by stone.


KFC's backyard and the triangle lot got a downgrade too.


I wonder if Conrail etc. would have fenced their property in such a neighborhood in the 1980s as CSX does with it's Hunts Point Market yard today?

Reinhard
Remember the fence around LAJ's Fruitland Team when we went there? Back in mid '80s during my first visit there was no fence. So we could walk on & get close up pix of of LAJ 2568 & a few cars. But alas only shooting slide film as digital cameras hadn't been invented yet. Wonder if the fence was put in when LAJ went from ATSF to BNSF?

Atlas Classic Geeps are my best running models and they fit quite well into my current layout scenery. It's good to have them back on rails


The Atlas MP15DC is my other close to perfect running model.


Andy, yes I remember that fence well. I did also notice absolute no fences along the MAW. I am under the impression fences are an indication for a climbing crime rate. Following that logic would fences in real bad neighborhoods prototypical as early as the 1980s.

What a good looking geep ( I love BRC ) on a equally good looking layout.

You are the master of changings.

IndyCity Wrote:What a good looking geep ( I love BRC ) on a equally good looking layout.

You are the master of changings.

That's not a Geep. It's a switch engine.

Sorry,

but until now i thought a GP7 is a Geep.

And BRC #470 is a GP7.

Or not ?

Sorry the Geep didn't show up on my "computato" & thought you were talking only about the switcher.

This modern "Pikestuff" plant assembly


is replaced by this older "Atlas" kit bashed structures under construction.

The brick details are really nice. And your devotion to modeling is inspirational!

what brand are these good looking wall parts, Reinhard ?

IndyCity Wrote:what brand are these good looking wall parts, Reinhard ?

Joerg, the walls are the front and side walls of two Atlas kits "Middlesex Manufacturing Co". e.g. http://www.rd-hobby.de/de-de/Catalog/Detail/47076?c=66


This is another kit bashed structure built from the same kit earlier this year. The front walls are used on the left and the rear walls are used for the right part of the structure.

Made some progress. The six tiny loading dock doors are far to small for modern times and have been replaced with four larger gates. The building is 105cm/41" long. Next steps are window glass, details and weathering.

Looking real good Reinhard! Please don't paint it. Just add the mortar & weathering. Did you see that god awful painted brick building just east of the Santa Fe Malabar Yard on south side of Pacific Bl.?

lajry Wrote:Looking real good Reinhard! Please don't paint it. Just add the mortar & weathering. Did you see that god awful painted brick building just east of the Santa Fe Malabar Yard on south side of Pacific Bl.?

It got painted already. But only with red brown primer to mimic the red bricks followed by a mortal wash. I have no intention to really paint it.
What building on Santa Fe do you mean? The Santa Fe runs a long way parallel east to Malabar yard. Possible the white one from Pabco Paper at the very north end?