Reinhard
Looks like those buildings ALL need freight cars parked in front of them! Maybe a few could use docks & or their own spur.

Looking good! Your speed amaze me... seriously, trying to keep up with you progress rate is quite challenging! And I know I'll loose the race once I get back to work!

Matt

lajry Wrote:Reinhard
Looks like those buildings ALL need freight cars parked in front of them! Maybe a few could use docks & or their own spur.

Andy, you are so right but it is hard to find different models of trucks to be used around 1930. Looks like the kits from Jordan are the only one from US. Most of mine are from Maerklin. Same is true for horse drawn carts that can be used in an urban environment. Most of them are made for farming.

sailormatlac Wrote:.... Your speed amaze me...

Your speed to get the tracks and all the concrete down on the layout was amazing. How much vacation time is left?

Got a grade crossing, a street and sidewalks today. The buildings are removable because they stay on the removable segment in front of the door. The sidewalks acts as alignment markers.
The light gray Florida ballast is replaced or covered with darker ballast section by section. That is an ongoing business. All the small patches of vegetation are also replaced one by one as I touch the area (e.g. between the track and the right building today).

Reinhard - just had a look in my Preiser catalogue - any of the following horse-drawn should do in an urban area - 30434, 30445, 30446, 30462, 30468, 30470 There are also some carriages but I think they are really too old for mixing with Boxcabs. For Farm vehicles you could always have a Amish or Mennonite community on the outskirts of the city, needing to get produce to market by rail (under protest, of course)

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shortliner Wrote:....just had a look in my Preiser catalogue....

Yes, those are some of the models I am currently using on my layout plus one from Faller.
I am looking for US based ready to roll models (My LHS has Jordan kits). US eBay and Walthers do not offer suitable US models.

The German carts have usually four wheels of the same size. The US carts have frequent larger wheels at the rear.
There is a horse drawn cart from Merten too and a Roskopf (Austria) Mercedes truck from 1930. I am afraid to sendup with German roads and US railroads :o

Reinhard,

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Bruce

Another nice green area is gone. The only green still left is at the very front of the layout. I will take care of it later.


More and more of the light gray ballasted tracks get a thin layer of dark ballast



The overall atmosphere is bare, naked and cheerless. It will take lots of details to become a gray but a busy place.

I would prefer to have no cars newer then 1930 on my layout. I like the very old cars while I have no interest in automobiles between 1930 and 1990. That is also true for boxcars. One of the reasons for me to stay away from the transition area.
I fighted like a hero with some Jordan kits. To be fair, Jordan is the winner....... therefor do I look for RTR.

Nice progress Reinhard! I remember my first Jordan kit when I was 12 years old... I was too young to know about basic stuff like filing parts before assembly.

Matt

sailormatlac Wrote:.....my first Jordan kit when I was 12 years old...

My fingers and eyes are to old ... there are some of this "masterpieces" on the layout.

A narrow but long strip at the very front of the layout was covered with sand when the theme was the LA basin. From that time migrated the sand with white glue into concrete and became permanent. The next layout themes covered that area with different vegetation.
The only thing I could do this time is to glue cobble stone sheets with Gorilla Glue on top of all that mess.

The freight shed of the Walthers Water Street Freight Terminal fits nice in the very right foreground. I used the front and the rear walls to form the front with double length. The never visible red wall is a plan styrene sheet painted brick red.




ps. Yes, the office building of that kit will find it's way on the layout soon.

First details are added to the bare buildings.

Reinhard,I have one thing to say.. Excellent modeling.

Turn that colored photo of those freight cars into black and white and it would be hard to tell if it was a photo of a model or the prototype.

Reinhard,

Nicely done. Noticed that you seem to be slowing down somewhat on your modeling speed, is retirement getting in the way?

Bruce

Thanks for the nice comments. I slow down a bit. I am learning to handle the feeling to have all time I want. But doing details takes longer time and produces much less results to be shown.

Todays topic: more fire escapes



and later that evening some more details added