Best Of Your favorite, less common, city buildings.

[basementcalling]

Search  Ebay for wilmodels. He has a nice resin 3 story DPM style store front and Monster Model Works has a new kit like the DPM but you can customize bricks and lines so maybe it could look older.

How many stories are you looking for?

[nkalanaga]

But of they weren't brick, or stone, they usually DID burn to the ground, at least once...

[sd45elect2000]

I too looked for something that is not on nearly every layout in the world.

http://www.clevermodels.net/

These actually build into very nice models

Randy

[Chris333]

http://monstermodelworks.com/N-Scale/N-Kits/N-Scale-3-Story-Storefront-Starter-Kit.html
http://monstermodelworks.com/N-Scale/N-Kits/N-Scale-2-Story-Storefront-Starter-Structure-Kit.html

[Rasputen]

1. Scratchbuild.
2. Kitbash.

https://www.pawofabear.com/N_Scale_Kits/N_Scale_Building_Facade1.html

[Philip H]

you could toss this up at the top of the hill . . . .
 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/N-Scale-TENEMENT-ROW-Laser-Cut-Wood-KIT-Northeastern-Scale-Models-NE10108-/222011733195?hash=item33b0ee34cb:g:G-AAAOSwT5tWNm2v

And a few of these could be fun:

http://www.fiferhobby.com/html/arrowhead_models_randy_brown_n.html

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Do you have any history on York? Small cities and towns were only brick if they burned to the ground.

That's a good point. I don't know if York had a great fire. But I do know there's a lot of brick there. However, there's also some wood still around too.

[Pomperaugrr]

Ed,

I just received this model from RS Laser Kits.  It is called "The Grove."  I'll be building it for the New Milford section on my Housatonic layout.  The back of the building will be facing the aisle, so the great detail will be visible, but the front and the side with the stucco ghost building will also be viewable when looking down Railroad Street.





http://www.rslaserkits.com

The detail on the laserboard is very nice.  I can't wait to build this up in the next couple of weeks.

Eric

[jimmo]

http://www.rslaserkits.com

Looks like a nice kit but why does the back wall of this brick structure appear to be wood siding?

[jimmo]

Search  Ebay for wilmodels. He has a nice resin 3 story DPM style store front and Monster Model Works has a new kit like the DPM but you can customize bricks and lines so maybe it could look older.

How many stories are you looking for?

I appreciate the nod but I'm not sure what kit you are referring to that's three stories. I had a two story hotel kit that would have been appropriate but it's been out of production for a couple of years. The only structures that I have ever offered on eBay that were over two stories tall were a couple of DPM kits modified into townhomes.

[Pomperaugrr]

Looks like a nice kit but why does the back wall of this brick structure appear to be wood siding?

Very good observation!

I had not really thought about it when I saw it and ordered it.  I can live with it, as some of the brick buildings on Railroad Street have wooden additions with porches on the back.  While this does not look like an addition, I can overlook it on a 3" wide building, since it matches the overall effect I am shooting for.

Eric

[Ed Kapuscinski]

How many stories are you looking for?

I'm thinking between two and four.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I too looked for something that is not on nearly every layout in the world.

http://www.clevermodels.net/

These actually build into very nice models

Randy

Those are cool. They're now on the list.

[C855B]

Looks like a nice kit but why does the back wall of this brick structure appear to be wood siding?

Because the builder was cheap.

Seriously... similar to the "masonry veneer" home construction popular in some markets today, where the front and visible sides are brick but the backs are vinyl siding, it was accepted practice to use wood frame construction and clapboard on exteriors that didn't face the street or didn't need to be firewalls against adjacent buildings.

But of they weren't brick, or stone, they usually DID burn to the ground, at least once...

That's only slightly joking. In old city blocks with no setbacks and no firewalls, one little "oops" with a kerosene lantern or other pre-electric-light luminary would torch the entire block. The apartments we're restoring along with our layout building is old-world (1920's) wood frame and clapboard in the classic two-story style, and it may the last one of its type in the city. I think the main reason it's standing today is it was not closely adjacent to other buildings on the block since the rest of the surviving downtown is masonry.

[Upstate Gator]

What about the rowhouses at http://www.custommodelrailroads.com/hampden-end-N.aspx? I think those are based on prototypes in Baltimore.

I have 3 boxes of the Northeastern Scale Models Earl Smallshaw tenements that I'm trying to decide what to do with. I'm trying to determine if they make any sense for a layout set in Chicago near Dearborn Station, but I think most structures like that would have burned in the Great Chicago Fire.

Ben