Will asked me to elaborate on the scene so here are some bits and pieces. The engine terminal is based on VGN structures at Morgan and Senneca. The coal dock is a steel prototype. I started with a piece of PVC pipe and lots of Evergreen sheet stock and shapes. The water tower is also VGN and is built of wood and Evergreen shapes. The sand drying house is based on a standard VGN tool house. There won't be a sand tower, the dry sand is handed up in buckets.
The Nansemond Builders Supply is Evergreen siding with Tichy windows. The lumber shed is Atlas with lumber added. Nansemond was the name of the county where Suffolk is. The city and county merged several years ago.
The Boxelder Ham Company is named for the community where my grandparents lived. My grandfather and my uncle both cured hams which were to die for. My uncle could cut the slices so thin that they only had one side. The structure is DPM pieces.
The H H Rogers oil company is a tribute to Henry Huddleston Rogers the builder of the Virginian Railway. He made his money with Standard Oil.
Much cedar was logged in the Dismal Swamp and made into shingles, etc. Novelties is another name for ice cream freezers. The building is Ameritown fronts.
More later,
George
