Less one building not photographed, here are structures in my ghost town, Arroyo Dorado. The station is an Ameri-towne kit, the Flag Stop,
om which all its walls and a scavented Plasticville bay were used, plus a small store kit whose last life was as a forest ranger station, the
store, really scratchbuilt using plans from a JV Models box of sticks, has a sagging roof that the chimney has fallen through, a saloon with
caved in facade, wall, and roof, and a burned out cellar.
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Pretty cool! I especially like the station. The burned out foundation is a good idea.
They would make a GREAT setting for a DVD about Lou Palumbo's favorite charity - The Palumbo Institute for Homeless Train Collectors - mentioned in the new (July 2013) CLASSIC TOY TRAINS (Views From The Underground, p. 26).
It would be neat to find an issue of ACTION Comics No. 1 in the wall, as a fortunate remodeler did this past week. Maybe we would prefer OGR No. 1 or Trains No. 1 or a 1901 Lionel catalog autographed by Joshua L. Cowen.
That is so cool. A truly inspired idea for a layout. I really wish I had room for something like that on mine!
I like it! Now all you need is some dirt, tumble weed, James West and a couple of bad guys
Very nice work 
Seems like something out of a Three Mesquiteer movie.
coloradohirailer:
Nice old west ghost town! I just finished scratch-building a jailhouse for my old west town. I modeled it after the jail used by John Wayne, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson in "Rio Bravo." (That's the movie where John Wayne calls Ricky "Colorad uh.")
Anyway, your buildings are amazing and now you've motivated me to build my saloon next- The Golden Slipper.
Scenic Express has desert terrain cloth, tumbleweed and cactus. Show us a picture when you have the town complete!
John Knapp
Erie, not Eerie
Cool concept and great craftsmanship. Thanks for sharing..
John Knapp: There are a couple of jail kits out there including one by Thomas Yorke....that I didn't win bids on....I could model the jail at Red Mountain Town in Colorado, remnants still standing, that was really just s stockade with a door, roof,and
no heat. I'd guess a winter night there meant you didn't have to feed prisoners...
no heat at 11,000 feet, and you just buried them in the morning. The vertical stockade poles are still standing on the prototype.
Thanks to all for your comments.
Nice ghost town, now all you need is a General loco and a few olde time cars, waiting at the station. 
Richie
Neat buildings - excellent work. 
Don't forget a sign to document the town's dwindling population. This one hasn't quite reached "ghost" status. 
Jim
Great looking structures!!
Alan
Very nice.
PennsyK4: That is a realistic herd of cattle being driven down the street, in HO. They
have different stances, and are not all the same casting. I'd like to scare some like
that up in O scale.
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