N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout

[OldEastRR]

Who's selling the Pennsy car? Is it still available?

[muktown128]

Link to website selling the car
https://catalpafalls.square.site/
https://catalpafalls.square.site/product/n-scale-prr-6dbr-buffet-lounge-8404-catalpa-falls-by-lowell-smith/2?cs=true&cst=custom

It's a special run Lowell Smith custom Kato car with Micro Trains printing. 
I was not aware of this car. 

[wm3798]

All this Pennsy talk made me need to cleanse my soul.

Here we see the Capitol Limited waiting alongside the Shenandoah, with a faithful commuter rig waiting to take its customers home.


Meanwhike the National Limited shows off its new hardware, a lovely set of E8s featuring Rivarossi shells on Kato drive, as sold by ConCor roughly 40 years ago.

JFRTM, my friends!

Lee

[wm3798]

Another relic of the WM layout re-emerges to create hundreds of jobs in Cornersville.


I'm thinking in the foreground I'll add something like a boiler house to make good use of the several smoke stacks I have laying about.
The overhead walkway masks the entrance to the nether world beyond...

As it once was...





Lee

[Point353]

Another relic of the WM layout re-emerges to create hundreds of jobs in Cornersville.


I'm thinking in the foreground I'll add something like a boiler house to make good use of the several smoke stacks I have laying about.
The overhead walkway masks the entrance to the nether world beyond...

As it once was...





Lee

Did the sawmill not make the final cut?

[wm3798]

With some encouragement from @OldEastRR , I've shifted Cornersville from being a serene mountain village with a coal mine, to being a rural town with a sawmill, and now as a busy town with a factory. 
Obviously, I still have all the structures to do any of the three,  but I'm really liking the potential of this iteration.
Lee

[OldEastRR]

Hey, glad to see the new Cornersville (that sounds like a name some real NE city would have -- wait, no, it'd be High Cornersville). Those factories fit there perfectly, and glad you could use the overhead passageway to hide the back tracks. Now you need housing for the wage slaves. I suggest you buy the AMB 3 company houses kit, slap them together to look rundown, and jam them all up against the factory. Maybe squeeze in the retro Bachman farmhouse with a sign saying "Weldon's Rooming House" on the front. No lawns, no gangways, just houses right up against each other. Just like the Northeast!!

Wasn't there a spur nearby? Have that the coal delivery track for the boilerhouse.

This really is my favorite layout on TRW.

[OldEastRR]

Link to website selling the car
It's a special run Lowell Smith custom Kato car with Micro Trains printing. 
I was not aware of this car.

ah ... I made my "Falls" series cars by adding a large window where a small bathroom window was on the KATO BL "Cove" cars. If done carefully there was no damage to the original KATO factory paint so no need to try to match it. Needed to decal new car names, obviously.   I wanted "Falls" for some of my other 1952 Chi-NYC passengers trains on my last layout. I think somebody on TRW bought them when I changed to NH.

[wm3798]

More work on Paw Paw's main drag.  The buildings are gradually evolving from paper cut outs to actual models.


Lee

[wm3798]

No sleep.  Build.

[wm3798]

One down, four to go!


Needs an awning and some signage, but the building is done and lit.  I still need to wire the block, so this modest example will have to do.



And on a retro note, the slate roof is a Faller building sheet that I remember buying at MB Klein on Gay Street in 1978 or so.  The had a rack full of this stuff that I would thumb through every time I went.





I saved this shard of their old "Sale" price sticker as a memento...

Lee

[MK]

I hope there will be some steps leading up to the front door.   

[wm3798]

This conversation took place in Weekend Update (2/14/21) so I copied and pasted here to put it in the context of my build.

Lee, knowing that this view is no accident, and that 'hanging in space' cantilevered addition over the alley is so interesting, what's the prototype look like here that inspired you?

We've got one of those around here, but it's hanging off the front of the building instead over over top of an alley, but an equally impressive engineering feat to try to gain a few square feet of expense with dubious engineering efforts.

It actually could be any of a number of buildings featuring that kind of construction. But what I had in mind was actually the little alleys that we encountered in Edinburgh when we visited Scotland last year. They call such a passage A "close."
 The main thing I was looking for was just something to break up the block visually and add a bit of interest, and a little something to put a light in and some details.
Hers another example from my adoptive home town of Cambridge, Md.
MD.
In this case the building on the right was a furniture store.  As it grew more successful, it acquired the parcel next door and built the larger building on the left.  The alley was bridged with the second floor to connect the two buildings.

Old downtowns are always full of interesting buildings with interesting stories behind them.
Lee

[wm3798]

Gluey gluey painty painty!

[peteski]

I smell lots of litigation with all those front entrances about 5 feet up from the pavement. You should nail some boards across those doors so someone doesn't accidentally take a leap down, and break a leg, hip, or a back.