Canton, Highlandtown and Fells Point - Compact layout

[OldEastRR]

Nice techniques, You could also build a pile of junk (boards, empty 55 gal drum, old roofing paper)  on/around the LED wires and resistors.
Wondering if a bank would actually have a large almost completely glass front....rather tempting for thieves, yes?

[wm3798]

I should change the sign to Rose Shanis Loans, or one of the local Savings and Loans.  I can't recall any specific banks with a glass front, but I'm sure I've seen one in Highlandtown.

[DeltaBravo]

The banks had Polish or Eastern European names. I recall one started with a "K"

[davefoxx]

The glass front shouldn't be a huge concern for a model of a bank in the 1960s or 1970s.  The money would have been kept in the vault whenever the bank was closed, so the thieves wouldn't have gotten much, if at all, if they broke in during nights or weekends.  During work hours, the front door is wide open, so . . .

Besides, most banks have windows of some sort, and a huge piece of plate glass, which would make an enormous amount of noise when shattered, on a busy city street would not be the thieves' preferred choice of entry and egress.

DFF

[Hamaker]

As someone who spent their career in Banking, I can asure you the police prefer plenty of windows in a bank.  If they get an alarm,  they like to be able to see into the bank in order to deterime what they might face if they were to enter the lobby.  How many are there.....where are they located....how may customers would be possibly involved.  They preferred to wait outside and get them as they left the lobby but wanted to know how many to expect.  That certainly wasn't the case with banks built back in the early 1990s.

[wm3798]

I'm always amazed at the things I learn as a model railroader!

@DeltaBravo , I'll have to dig out one of the old East Baltimore GUIDEs I edited back in the day and see who was advertising.  There were S&Ls affiliated with churches, social clubs and who knows what else back in the day...

Lee

[DeltaBravo]

How about Fells Point?  Kosciuszko Federal Savings Bank   1635 Eastern Ave, Baltimore, MD 21231

[Hamaker]

As someone who spent their career in Banking, I can asure you the police prefer plenty of windows in a bank.  If they get an alarm,  they like to be able to see into the bank in order to deterime what they might face if they were to enter the lobby.  How many are there.....where are they located....how may customers would be possibly involved.  They preferred to wait outside and get them as they left the lobby but wanted to know how many to expect.  That certainly wasn't the case with banks built back in the early 1990s.

Meant to type ....."back in the early 1900s."  The last bank branch I managed had a lot of windows....but they were those mirror windows....the local police department hated it !!  And we were within a half mile of a freeway entrance....quick getaway.

[wm3798]

I got nothin'

[MichaelWinicki]

I got nothin'

Dig the cheesy Godzilla.

[wm3798]

Well, I've gone and done it again.  Business has been very good this year, and I've outgrown my laptop,and my available office space, so I had to take down the CH&FP.  The space is now occupied by the new hi-capacity gee whiz magic picture machine that prints money for me, so back into the mothballs went my collection of N scale what-nots.

Who knows when it will see the light of day again.

Happily, I'm not gloomy about this situation at all.  Life is quite full, and I've been scratching my hobby itch with some furniture refinishing and other pursuits related to updating our house.

I guess I've finally reached that stage of the hobby you read about in the magazine, where the guy puts his Lionels in storage having discovered girls and cars. 

We're still hoping one day to have a cabin getaway up in the hills somewhere, hopefully with some room in a basement or something, but that's still at least a few years off.  By then, who knows?

I'm enjoying checking in on the progress of all the great work that goes on here, although I've mostly been lurking more than commenting.  Keep on keeping on!

See you all trackside...
Lee

[Point353]

Time for you to start building some T-TRAK modules.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Time for you to start building some T-TRAK modules.

Yessssss....

[wm3798]

I've always had more of a bent toward operations, so the clip together roundy roundy ethos doesn't hold my interest.

Having done the room clogging full functioning main line layout, with all its pride and pitfalls, I think if and when I wade back in I'll be doing something along the lines of a lightly trafficked, heavily weathered branch line in (or on) a scale that requires a less vocational approach to the hobby...

We shall see.  The furniture projects may yet yield a layout in a cabinet such as the aborted Oxford Branch project I floundered around with a couple of years ago.

Lee

[Point353]

I've always had more of a bent toward operations, so the clip together roundy roundy ethos doesn't hold my interest.

Nothing prevents you from locating sidings and/or a yard on T-TRAK modules nor obligates you to clip them together in a roundy-roundy loop.