Great pics! One of the hazards of modeling urban areas is you can spend a fortune on getting enough people and vehicles so it really looks like a teeming big city and not a ghost town.

The budget people bulk packs are a great deal and I have more to come. But the many limousines needed are an open issue. The US city streets are usually on both sides filled with parking cars. My street is 400 cm long. Both sides are 800 cm to fill. One model is about 4 cm long..... 200 cars I have 35 limousines :cry:

Got some more trees and used the 2.nd floor of the Walthers building as a small office extension (behind the taxi and fire hydrant). I made the street a one way street. The width does not permit parking on both sides and moving traffic in in both direction in two lanes.



I moved to the very west end and started working on the container yard and the background buildings. Four kits of fire escapes are waiting to be assembled.

I will go without the hause back sides and use containers as backdrop too. That is a cleaner structured layout. Did just print, cut and glue 10 additional 4*40ft container stacks.

Looks like a completely different layout, good idea on the one way street.

The paper containers are regrouped and glued together in larger stacks to gain some more stability. The mandatory fence got installed too and drained my fence supply.





I dumped all the old buildings (except Downtown Deco buildings). The storage in the basement and under the layout got larger and larger. It was time for a global cleanup. It became boring reusing the same old buildings again and again.

I know you're more concentrated on the Bronx but Staten Island has NY Container Terminal (and its own railroad) and their entrance might give some inspiration for your terminal.
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Rscott417 Wrote:I know you're more concentrated on the Bronx but Staten Island has NY Container Terminal (and its own railroad) and their entrance might give some inspiration for your terminal.
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Found it https://www.google.de/maps/@40.6305253,-...312!8i6656
A great place. I should certainly have a eye on Staten Island.

Yep that's it. One OCD thing I noticed with your fence is that the barbed wire would be bent out the other direction not in toward the yard. The way you have it now wouldn't make it much of a challenge for someone to climb over.

Rscott417 Wrote:Yep that's it. One OCD thing I noticed with your fence is that the barbed wire would be bent out the other direction not in toward the yard. The way you have it now wouldn't make it much of a challenge for someone to climb over.

VBG. I have of FB exact the same discussion without a solution. A guy from CA supports your position. The majority thinks I did it right and photos (Streetview) from the Bronx support my position.
I think both is right because
1. If the fence is exactly at the boarder the wires must be inwards
2. If the fence is at some distance off the boarder your suggestion is the preferred mthod.
Most photos are taken (1) not to waste any valuable property

There is also another explanation for the photos taken at the CSX yard in the Bronx:
The working conditions at CSX are so lousy they have to ensure the train crews can not escape.....

If you have a line of trucks w/ containers going both directions to the container yard you won't have to worry about not having enough cars for the street. >}

People, lots of people in the city

A NYC unique no parking sign. I understand staten island is not using the scheduled cleanup time.

The container yard got barriers.


Bad news is the rotten old warehouse is still in use. The owner cares for nothing but insists to use it.