Good Evening folks,
About a year ago, I purchased a 3 story building front, a couple inches deep, that was built by Forum member @Laidoffsick. It was already lightly weathered and lit with led's by Doug. He had been using it as a background building on his layout. I had a plan to modify it into more of a building with a local flavor to be used on my module during our club's shows/displays. Finally got my butt into gear and finished it up a few months ago. I constructed the warehouse sign from basswood and laser cut letters which I then painted)painted the letters before mounting) and mounted the sign using Walthers Goo. I added an additional roll up door to the right of the main dock area. Also constructed wooden steps of basswood which were stained and mounted at the left side of the main dock area. Another set of steps was assembled for use at the main building entrance and painted to look like concrete.(none of the steps are permanently mounted for ease of setup & transport). On the roof, I added one of the older Miller Engineering Westinghouse signs. I redid some of the wiring so that both the led lighting and the illuminated Westinghouse sign have female jacks mounted on the back side of the building that accept the male jacks from the modified wal-wart wiring. The back of the building was originally cardboard which was fine for Doug's use, but I made new back sections from 1/8" thick high density polyethelene(plastic) for support of the plugs and the numerous setup/teardowns and transporting. The last thing was to give street address 209 to the building. This was an actual building that was located on the North Side of Pittsburgh at 209 West General Robinson St. It was actually a WESCO warehouse, but both names were used over the years. The building also had the famous Illuminated Westinghouse sign on the roof of the building. In the late 1990's, the building was demolished to make way for PNC Park(Pirates baseball). They tried to save a couple of the illuminated W logos, but everything was so badly deteriorated that the letters just fell apart and none were saved. While this building front isn't an exact replica, it's a reasonable representation.
Nick
