Modular NYC subway layout - Times Square Station

The last high wall section is in place. Next, construction of the mezzanine and the last part of the station wall. Not sure yet how it's going to work out.  Where's that architect when you need them? 😄

Beautiful! This is so nicely done. Your heart and passion is shining though this. Thank you for sharing. I’d post a hundred images if I could do this sort of magic. 👍😎

@WRW posted:

Beautiful! This is so nicely done. Your heart and passion is shining though this. Thank you for sharing. I’d post a hundred images if I could do this sort of magic. 👍😎

Hello WRW --- I FULLY agree with your comments.  His eye for detail and sharp crisp construction and fabrication shows well.  Museum quality.   Joe F

Progress has been a bit slow due to a bit of vacation in PR. Now back to work. 😁

Trackside walls finished. Supports placed for mezzanine floor.

@West Side Joe posted:

Progress has been a bit slow due to a bit of vacation in PR. Now back to work. 😁

Trackside walls finished. Supports placed for mezzanine floor.

Hello W.S  JOE

E  X  C  E  L  L  E N  T  !!!!!   Museum Quality work.  Architectural class construction, clean and sharp painting,  and detailing !  All girders are straight upright and crossbeams all level and spaced evenly.  As a trained draughtsman (aka "draftsman) as well as modeler and photographer,  I can truly appreciate the skill level of your work  Joe F

Mezzanine walls in place, floor down prior to painting.

Joe,

Amazing detail.

As a kid in the 1960s, all I remember were the Levy’s posters in the stations.

Glen

Testing configurations for luncheonette on mezzanine.

First wayfinding sign installed.

@West Side Joe posted:

Testing configurations for luncheonette on mezzanine.

Is the luncheonette going to be a Nedick's?

Nedick's, a blast from the past. 😁Actually I'm trying for this:

Large "Times Square" signs installed.

Do you plan on adding some of those Chicklets vending machines which were mounted on the columns all across the NYC subway system?

That would be really cool!

Yes, I would like to give that a try. 😁

The sign shop is starting to grumble. More signs installed. 😊

Last of the platform signs.

While the rest of their Times Square subway station luncheonette is still under construction, Sam and Fred busy themselves setting up the kitchen.

A judisciously placed photo (such as at the left side of the kitchen) can make a tiny interior space seem much larger.

Progress, slow and steady...

West Side Joe, its amazing the amount of detail you have added. I love looking at your pictures..keep up the great work! Jorge

Thank you. ☺

Hello W S   Joe

I HAVE been following your recent posts and photos, and enjoying them.  Especially the "subway station and mezzanine platform real estate" heh.  As usual, high quality and museum caliber looking modeling work.  With a great eye for attention to small details and proportional accuracy.    As best as permits and can be done in O Scale for realism.

Regards - Joe F

Thank you, Joe.

Illuminated subway advertising clock added. The ad says: "This train does NOT go to Hawaii but Transocean Airlines will fly you there for $169.10".

WS Joe - nice work as usual. Love the details. 

@West Side Joe posted:

Illuminated subway advertising clock added. The ad says: "This train does NOT go to Hawaii but Transocean Airlines will fly you there for $169.10".

As usual, Joe -- looks great and super realistic.  You have the best looking O-Scale modeled NYC Subway subway station module I have seen yet!  Especially for details, sharpness, all your support columns and perfectly upright-straight and properly spaced,  and everything realistically proportioned to prototype.  And excellent painting.  The Clock & Ad sign BOX  is a major platform detail - I remember when they started putting them - first - in Manhattan stations in the early-mid 1960's.  Well, ..now you have to soon start working on the next 20 stations of your "layout" !!! I have saved all your photos to a special folder on my computer

Joe F

WS Joe - Great clock and ad sign!  Still waiting for the column mounted gum vending machines!

Thanks to Joe F. and Henry for the kind words. Yes, I'm thinking about how to do those vending machines, as well as other platform items.

Gum vending machines installed. One cent gets you a tiny yellow box with two Chiclets, or a tiny red box with two Dentynes, or a tiny red and cream box with two California Fruit Gum pieces.

WS Joe,

Love those gum machines!!!

All I can say is it is stunning, and in some of the shots I honestly if I didn't know it was a model would think it was real, the walls for whatever reasons kind of have that grimy look you see in real stations. I remember those gum machines and the clock signs are still there in some stations.  Def looks like the #1 line in Times Square, that is for sure.

Hot dog roller grill for luncheonette.

Great hot dog heater - will be a nice add to the luncheonette. I think those dogs qualify as the jumbo variety in scale.

Frozen custard machine for luncheonette.

Outstanding!!!

WOW WEST SIDE JOE, that looks absolutely amazing! I love to see all of the tiny details incorporated into your modular layout. Will this be on display anywhere in the future? I'm sure all of us here on OGR would love to see some in-depth videos/layout tours.

Fantastic work.

I rode the IND back in the early 1960s every day.

I was young and stupid then, and now I am old and stupid.

Are you going to run the MTH R1 set?

That was always my favorite subway set.

White Rose Hobbies: When I finish the Times Square module I'd like to take it and the tunnel module to a train show.  If I am able to, I'll post the info here.

Fred: I would love to run the R-1 and the Lo-V on the layout. But right now I'm just focused on finishing this module as a showcase for the Lionel R-27. It would be super-cool if Lionel would issue those other models with opening doors. The doors are why I bought the R-27.

Update: 18 months after posting this, I broke down and bought the R-1. It really is a beautiful set.

This is amazing! I've ridden the subways in NYC a few times and you nailed the look other than it's all way too clean looking!

Lee, thank you. Yes, the subway was at times very unkempt. But I prefer to model it the way I would like to remember it. 😁