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Pelle's new book "Rebuilding a Layout from A-Z" arrived today. It is a great book and I felt bad to have such an overcrowded layout again. Same thing happens each time I read one of Lance's books....
Two smaller buildings of the mill behind and in front of the engine have been removed to make it look more spacious.
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My feelings are a urban RR is supossed to be crowded, kinda the brick canyon feel. I liked the other buildings, however if you are going for the sleepy branchline look then I would replace the buildings with trees. Either way the layout still looks great.
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Tyson Rayles Wrote:My feelings are a urban RR is supossed to be crowded, kinda the brick canyon feel. I liked the other buildings, however if you are going for the sleepy branchline look then I would replace the buildings with trees. Either way the layout still looks great.
Don't worry. I did not touch the brick buildings at the east side. Only two minor buildings right and in front to the grain silo have been removed. Both have not been my favorites
(This is an old photo just to illustrate the buildings removed)
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The three GP9 of St. Maries River Railroad detailed last week are doing fine but the staging yard has four tracks. The prototype owns the GP9 101 - 103. A 104 would be little bit to much freelance for me. A second 101 has been made and only one of the two 101 will be at a time out of the staging yard.
The Mutual Grain Service got some weathering. The global black wash to tone down the bright white is barely visible on the photos.
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Reinhard, you are the maestro of rebuilding layouts! Shouldn't Pelle be reading YOUR book?!!!
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I really liked the exposed brick and faded paint look on those walls!
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Tyson Rayles Wrote:My feelings are a urban RR is supossed to be crowded, kinda the brick canyon feel. I liked the other buildings, however if you are going for the sleepy branchline look then I would replace the buildings with trees. Either way the layout still looks great.
Depends on era..Several urban industrial areas served by the PRR in Columbus was concrete canyons-you should have heard EMD's 567 or Alco's 251 or 244s reverberate of the walls.
Some of the newer era industries isn't so close.
Larry
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Whatever you do with this layout will be cool. We all know by now it changes practically daily, which is why I follow along. You really could do a book on this type of progressive modeling. Pelle's stuff is cool, but he's a marketer now and selling his style.
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Love the pipes on the building walls. They look great. I'll definitely be copying that as I detail the structures on my layout.
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Gary S Wrote:Love the pipes on the building walls. They look great. I'll definitely be copying that as I detail the structures on my layout.
Gary, this plain walls in Commerce, 6023 Rickenbacker Rd with even spaced loadings docks and "decorated" with cables on supports are my inspiration.
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Reinhard, I love your old mill complex. Though you alreday build a lot of great looking structures, the mill complex really stands out
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Reinhard:
Who's the manufacturer of the orange, cab, trucks on your layout? I have been looking for some of those in that color for my food processing industry.
Thanks,
Barry