Joe
I came across some more pictures.
Will
There are modelers who have converted the MTH Subway cars to two rail. Click on the link in my signature below. Also, check out https://groups.io/g/NYC-Transit-Modelers-Group.
and on Facebook O Scale New York.
Thank you! ☺
Steve, I especially like the Museum of the City of NY black and white picture. If you zoom in, you can see a display of sheet music for popular tunes (surely an endangered species already as fewer and fewer people were learning to play musical instruments by then), and to the upper left, nearly hidden by copies of Detective and True Experiences, there is a copy of Railroad Magazine. A real time capsule, this pic. Thanks.
BTW The newer style starting and holding lights look very similar to the ones you modeled You will see them in any new station or rebuilt station
Joe
You are welcome. What drew my eye to it was the stack of newspapers. Time, Daily News, Post.
Ill have to zoom in to catch the magazines !
Someone else has found that the newsstand photo was taken by Stanley Kubrick (yes, THAT Stanley) in 1946 when he worked as a staff photographer for Look Magazine.
Couldn't find enough ready-made candy for my Times Square newsstand, so, making my own.
JOE JUST CURIOUS WHO MADE THAT SUBWAY CAR. SPENT MANY A DAY GROWING UP IN THE CITY RIDING THE SYSTEM MAINLY THE MYRTLE AVE EL GATE CARS 1950'S. REALLY LOOKS GREAT. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. LIONEL 13
The subway car was made by Lionel. It is part of their 4-car R-27 set.
Joe
Here are some picture of candy I have for my layout when I get to the street scene.
IMPRESSIVE WORK! :-)
Just curious, why if you put in outside third rail, that you still had center rail. Why not use 2 rail track with the outside 3rd?
Prrjim, the third rail is cosmetic only, not functional. I'm not handy or ambitious enough to convert the Lionel R-27 set to outside third rail operation. ☺
Well, if I'm using images of real 1960's candy, I really ought to use images of real 1960's magazine covers too, right? Such a slippery slope...(sigh) 😄 
Newspapers delivered. 😁
Fantastic Joe.
Unbelievable attention to detail!
The Mad magazine brings me back to the 1960s.
@Glen S posted:Unbelievable attention to detail!
The Mad magazine brings me back to the 1960s.
All the magazines and newspapers are images of actual 1962 issue covers and front pages.
Ready for the New Year's Eve crush of party animals at Times Square.
Fabulous!
As a current Train Operator in the NY system I commend your attention to detail, very nice. I too love to dabble in subway modeling (as it’s what I stare at all day, lol). Only thing I would add is a “catwalk” along the benchwall in the tunnel. Any questions do not hesitate to ask.
@Maverick0394 posted:Only thing I would add is a “catwalk” along the benchwall in the tunnel.
Totally agree. When I began planning the tunnel module, I used the original IRT as a model, which did not have a catwalk. I did not realize that since the subway I am running is a BMT model, the tunnels it ran through would have had the catwalk, unlike the IRT. You are the first person to mention that, and the omission of the catwalk has been bothering me for quite a while. Maybe after I finish the other modules, I'll go back and install the catwalk. I left more than enough room in the tunnel to add one. Thank you for your perceptive comment.
Joe, do you post on a FB page called "Only the Finest in O-scale Railroading"? Because there is an identical newsstand there.
Yes, I do. You're the first person that has made the connection. I like posting in both places. Different reactions, different perspectives. ☺
I found your page on Facebook and sent a join request.
@West Side Joe posted:Yes, I do. You're the first person that has made the connection. I like posting in both places. Different reactions, different perspectives. ☺
Good. i just wanted to make sure no one else was posting your beautiful modeling as their own. It was funny watching the same idea evolve in two places before I realized it was the same model.
Looking for some suggestions regarding how to proceed now that that the newsstand is finished. Major components remaining are (1) the station wall along the tracks with supporting steel connecting to the main support structure, (2) the rest of the station steel support structure (the pic shows the near end - more than half remains to be done at the far end), (3) the mezzanine at the end of the station with lunch counter, and (4) the stairs from the platform to the mezzanine.
The mezzanine needs the station supporting structure and also the station wall to position and support it properly. But building those support structures make it difficult to then work around them to put in the stairs and the lunch counter.
I thought of building the stairs first and positioning them on the platform, then using that as an anchor to "grow" the mezzanine and the supporting structures from and around it.
Ideas and comments welcome. 😊
Absolutely! Planning to model one or two of them. I loved the red Chiclets / Dentyne machines with the circular disk you turned to get a tiny box of two candies. I loved the "ker-chunk" noise when I turned the disk.
Building the staircase from platform level to mezzanine. Combining two Kaw Valley Design #201 stair kits with a Rail-Scale-Models D-2551b Decorative "Iron" Railing kit.
Kaw Valley Design seems not be up and running now. Too bad. Those are nice.
I found them by doing an Ebay search for o scale stairs. The package has no website, only an email address.
18 steps from platform to mezzanine. Coincidentally, the same as the Court Street station stairs I'm using as a guide.
Completed staircase to mezzanine. Remaining "steel" erected.
Great work, Joe!
I can’t believe the detail on the railings.
Until I blew up the picture, I thought the billboard was an ad for Devo.
Or "Mars Attacks"! 🤣
One detail remains on the stairs: adding the handholds atop the railings. They will be a bright red like the Court Street stairs. Just waiting for the paint to get here!
Edit: finished product.
Hi Joe:
Who made the Marilyn Monroe figure?
Although I agree with Will that your modeling is "top shelf", a subway layout is really "bottom shelf", just below the street & surface RRs.
😀
Bill
I bought the MM figure from an Ebay vendor in Belarus named "43figures". They make some interesting Russian-outline figures as well.
Your work is peerless, simply amazing ! Not to be a wise-***, but are you going to include a rat here and there at track level?
@BwanaBob posted:Your work is peerless, simply amazing ! Not to be a wise-***, but are you going to include a rat here and there at track level?
Nah. In this subway, the trains always run on time, there is always a vacant seat, the staff are polite, the tunnels and platforms are clean and free of vermin, and all the passengers are above average. (Thank you, Garrison Keillor). 😊
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