Layout progress video

Very very nice

Thanks, Alex

Looks like a real neighborhood in the city.

Terrific job with the details and landscaping.

Thank you for sharing

Very nice structures Terry [including the EL & station] as well as your land and street scaping.

Terry,

Beautiful work!  You are a master!

VERY NICE

Really, really nice work.  The brownstones remind me of the building my parents owned and that I grew up in Chicago.  To add a real touch of Chicago, throw in the "El" running past the outfield at Wrigley Field, views of Lake Michigan, Willis (formerly Sears) Tower, and maybe a car up on milk crates into the mix.

Thanks all for the kind words. I've really just tried to capture the "look" of Chicago's North Side without referencing any specific locations or scenes. But, I'm just happy at this point that it runs and I've got some scenery.

Thanks again

CTA Fan

Thanks for posting. Really nice work.

Prairie

Fabulous work! 

i really like the urban scribble scrabble on the wall and all the weeds.

Vwet Nice work. Thanks for posting the Vid

Your apartment building looks great. Have you ever looked at some of the BJ Traction kits.You will have to find them on E-Bay or the used market as they are no longer in business. One of the kits was a uniquely Chicago apartment building similar to the one you have built.A 79th street store , a Hudson auto show room and a movie theatre and similar 3 story buildings. Also was a back alley wall of some sort.Check these out I think you will be quite happy with them and will fit into your motif. Sometimes they will show up on E-Bay under    " O gauge" with the sub category "Traction"

CTA...just noticed your update.  REALLY VERY NICE!!!  Makes me inspired to get back to work on my project....much more to do.  Thanks for the video and first rate modeling!

Alan

I thought of some Chicago oriented  building kits in O and S which you could use. The 'Twin Whistle' White Tower and most of the 'DSL' kits were inspired by his observations in the Ch.icago area. Some were only S scale while others were O and some in both.

Halstead Hobbies ,Goldblatt Dep. Store ,Firehouse Front ,Pershing Bakery , a Berwyn Bungalow. DSL was run by Dave Lull. His site is at dslshops.com .So he is still in business. Nice kits mostly fronts I have used them in the past.

  Another outfit 'SLM' which I think was in Baltimore had a Town Grill which could be used anywhere in the US. They also had a Pig Barbecue which woudn't fit into your sity scheme. Much stonger in HO

Very impressive work. Thank you for sharing.

Peter