Hoboken Manufacturers Railroad Micro-Layout

[Specter3]

This:



Is just awesome!

[Chris333]

I like changes, plus more images to add to the flip book 

[Catt]

Where's the rest of the layout? It seems to be missing something.

[DKS]

More structure progress. Finally resolved my dilemma over the tall industry in the corner, which was originally going to be another Middlesex bash. Wanting to avoid a duplicate, I was stuck, out of options, until I visited Rick Spano's last week, and saw a Kibri kit he'd bashed, and realized I'd forgotten all about the Kibri industrial kit series. Although it's a European kit, there are lots of clones of this style of building here in the States. So, problem solved. (Except now I have a frack load of windows to make!)



There will be a twin for it to the right of the short track, with a bridge walk connecting them. Then, over on the corner of Clinton and 15th is the only unmodified kit on the layout, whereas it's conjoined counterpart comprises parts from four different DPM kits.

This:

Is just awesome!

Innit? I felt as though I'd won the lottery when I found it.

Where's the rest of the layout? It seems to be missing something.

That's all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be.

[Chris333]

I was researching structures using Bing Maps, but it's sometimes difficult to correlate specific buildings with the HBR, since the railroad has been all but eradicated.

http://ponyrr.blogspot.com/2014/01/us-testing-building.html

[DKS]

...plus more images to add to the flip book

Chris, I think you'll appreciate these:







The front half of the building is gone: http://binged.it/1famyWG

[conrail98]

This:



Is just awesome!

The gentleman's layout who is building the Hoboken Shore Railroad I mentioned earlier in this thread has parts of this arrangement on his layout:



Phil

[gringo]

Where's the rest of the layout? It seems to be missing something.

Cowbell. Needs more cowbell.

[PRRATSF]

so much awesomeness, Its like coming home from work and finding another chapter in a favorite book.

Sam

[GaryHinshaw]

I like the way this is headed!

This shot, with its ghostly track and sketched-in streets, reminds me of one of those scenes from the Walthers catalog:

[DKS]

The gentleman's layout who is building the Hoboken Shore Railroad I mentioned earlier in this thread has parts of this arrangement on his layout:

I went digging for more maps of the HMR, and found this, courtesy of Chris' link:



I wondered if it was at all feasible to build it in N scale with no compression. I figured everything of interest was north of the Maxwell plant (north is to the right), so I cut it off there, then did some rough calculations.



If built with zero compression, it would be roughly 30 by 45 feet. Not bad, really. I could envision building it in two stages, starting with the north half as a 20 x 24 foot unit. I could also see opportunities for very slight compression that wouldn't impact fidelity but make it more practical to build--particularly the 8.5-foot-wide central portion. Anyway, it feels like a viable if long-term project.

[VonRyan]

I went digging for more maps of the HMR, and found this, courtesy of Chris' link:



I wondered if it was at all feasible to build it in N scale with no compression. I figured everything of interest was north of the Maxwell plant (north is to the right), so I cut it off there, then did some rough calculations.



If built with zero compression, it would be roughly 30 by 45 feet. Not bad, really. I could envision building it in two stages, starting with the north half as a 20 x 24 foot unit. I could also see opportunities for very slight compression that wouldn't impact fidelity but make it more practical to build--particularly the 8.5-foot-wide central portion. Anyway, it feels like a viable if long-term project.

THIS.

I like this.

I sense the coming of an extra shack on the DKS homestead... Someday.

[DKS]

Looks like the core bits of the railroad can fit in a 12 x 16 foot space, with minimal dimensional compression and no loss of track from a logistical standpoint.

[Scottl]

Nice, perhaps except for the 5' reach needed!

[DKS]

Nice, perhaps except for the 5' reach needed!

I figure it would be open on both sides of that part of the layout, assuming the room was 20 feet long.