Tall Buildings Tuesday

Been off the Forum for a while. Checking back and looking around I saw all the awesome photos on this Tall Building thread but was surprised to see that with all the various techniques for building skyscrapers for O-Scale, no one seemed to have large LEGO buildings. While I don't currently have a model train layout for my O-Scale collections, my sons and I do have a large LEGO city with a skyscraper downtown.  All the tall buildings below are LEGO and all but one are custom desiigned by me. I placed the small Lionel Grand Central and some MTH cars to show the effect. Once I get around to having an O-Scale layout again it will be mainly urban with a variety of tall buildings...someday.

Wow, I'd like to see that image a lot larger, so I can examine some of these buildings more closely. I'd always dismissed Lego because I felt the buildings had a certain look that I didnt feel meshed with my other toy buildings from earlier periods, but these look amazing, at least what I can see of them.  Do you have any closeups you can share?

It'd be great to see more and closer shots of those Lego towers. They look great in that scene. The biggest challenge for O-gaugers is finding reasonably priced structures, or kits that can be bashed into taller buildings. Legos could very well fit that bill.

Most LEGO building built from sets have a very toy-ish look. I just buy raw brick and build my own designs. Here's a full view of one of my towers:

Same building with some O-scale accessories (note I swapped out the LEGO palm trees in the above photo for Woodland Scenic trees), an MTH Subway Entrance and 1:50 Corgi buses and 1:43 cars:

Close-ups of some off my other building's lobby levels:

Another Railking building bash, this time 3 "Neil's Guitars" painted dark brown, mortared, with butter cream windows and cornices and a customized Dreyfuss base. I used all 3 top floor's cornices to extend the height to 10 stories. My research could not find buildings with multiple cornices at different levels, although I did find pictures of buildings with ornate ledges at different levels. I love ornate buildings, circa late 19th century New York and Philly, among other cities. I wish we could have them in O-gauge.

Very nice Paul.

FCMR Car21, there's a LEGO and O gauge thread in the Scenery and Structures forum.  You should post some of your creations over there.

This is my tallest building to date, 12-stories! This beautiful building features painted windows, all sides mortared, and detailed first floor. It will make a welcome addition to the renovations and gentrification of "old city" circa late 1930s.

Here's an Ameri-town hotel I built and detailed, 6-stories, and not a large footprint, should be easy to find real estate for.

It has been a great while, so here's to Skip, God bless.

Back the the NJ HiRailers in October 20th 2019. You can see the Twin Towers just behind the transformers.

Overview from above at the control panel.

Coal tipple hiding on the left side of the frame above the stations.

Twin Towers poking up to the ceiling just about.

At the front of the layout looking at the city scene start around the layout with the mountains in the background.

Tall Building Tuesday yet again. More from the 2019 NJ HiRailers Layout which I was talking to the security guard at work. I told him to look them up to see what events they have during the year. All of that started with me just talking about trains in general. Maybe he'll look them up?

Front of the city scene under the shadow of the Twin Towers.

The Piggly Wiggly just a couple blocks away from the Twin Towers.

The Subway running towards the city.

A look under the Twin Towers reveals a ton of tracks.

Icing station cooling off the produce and other things. Big buildings in the background.

I don't have too many tall building pictures left, I do have a bunch of videos though that I will have to switch over to.

The South Fork Railroad Headquarters, eight stories.

A homage to Skip. May he RIP.

Also from the NJHR a few weeks ago.

Probably the two best building models in existence on any layout anywhere.....

Bob

One of our member just built this for us   It will be installed in July

It is Tuesday again, and more from the 2019 NJ HiRailers Layout.

I love these scenes that they put together.

It does my heart good to see Skip's picture on this topic. I shared this photo last week on the "dressing up corner" discussion, and to help keep this thread going I'll post it here. I think Skip would've liked this scene; I call this area "Old City" and am still adding figures and vehicles.

I know its not Tuesday but I just got emailed the Chrysler building finished product  Being delivered in July   Lights and sounds complete

Ben - that is awesome! Aside from Skip's fantastic models, that "takes the cake" for tall buildings IMO!.

Amazing, Ben. I hope to make it back down to see it when it is installed. And wow!!! Gershwin, Miller, and Goodman - what a soundtrack

@bluelinec4 posted:

I know its not Tuesday but I just got emailed the Chrysler building finished product  Being delivered in July   Lights and sounds complete

WOW!!!!!!!!

@bluelinec4 posted:

I know its not Tuesday but I just got emailed the Chrysler building finished product  Being delivered in July   Lights and sounds complete

That is certainly a piece of art Ben!

My tall buildings

Ben, another great addition to the layout.  Not only is the building superb but the light show it provides is incredible.  Many extremely talented members of the NJHRs.

Pennysfan, awesome view of the layout and your tall buildings.

We've seen quite a few of the tall buildings from the NJHRs, but they've also got a PanAm/MetLife Building built by our Own Alex Mallie.  A picture of that would be nice.

6 story Buildings Unlimited Hotel……fire escapes this week…..

RIP, Skip……we miss you!

Peter

@coach joe posted:

We've seen quite a few of the tall buildings from the NJHRs, but they've also got a PanAm/MetLife Building built by our Own Alex Mallie.  A picture of that would be nice.

Here it is   The Helicopter left for JFK though

@bluelinec4, Ben, they did a great job on the Chrysler Building. I really love the lighting on it, and cannot wait to see you all unveil it once it is on the layout. Cheers!

Ben, thank you for a unique perspective of a unique building!

@Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:

It is Tuesday again, and more from the 2019 NJ HiRailers Layout.

I love these scenes that they put together.

I love these two big warehouses in particular.  Great color scheme and detailing!  Do you know where the trucks were purchased?

Does this qualify?

(HO scale.)

Andre

@EmpireBuilderDave posted:

I love these two big warehouses in particular.  Great color scheme and detailing!  Do you know where the trucks were purchased?

One of big warehouses was put together using Chooch Ultrascale II fronts  They arent made anymore  The other Rheingold building was put together with fronts created by Harry Heike     The Cab over trucks are mostly Athearn 1:48 Fords   The Rheingold trailers are from Weaver flat cars  The white trucks in the loading docks are Walmart specials

Well, it is Tuesday again, and the last of the pictures from the 2019 OGR 50th Anniversary Party at the NJ HiRailers. Next week I guess it will be the videos I shot.

I just want to say that anyone that is able to get in the area of NJ should definitely consider paying a visit to the NJ HiRailers. If I had not been told about this event back at October's 2019 York, I would never have been able to get all the pictures(and then some) that I have shared. They are excellent hosts, and anyone would just love a few minutes of looking around, let alone a few hours.

My friend Bryant's Gotham City. Unfortunately, Bryant took down his layout last year and sold a good many of his trains and structures. I hope he is doing well and doesn't mind me sharing this wonderful scene. The background is from chicwalks.

Sorry about not being around for a couple of weeks, family was coming into town, left yesterday. Busy, busy, busy, but lets get to some Tall Building Tuesday Videos.

And just one more from the NJ HiRailers to make up for my absence.

Okay, starting off Tall Building Tuesday late. I may be tired, and may have had a crazy day, but I got to post these.

Hey, who is that walking into the shot with a smile on his face?

I got to have this one also today because it is one of the big videos I shot back in 2019. Plus gives a quick pan around with some great buildings in view.

Tall Building Tuesday has arrived once again. These videos are huge MB's, but worth their weight in video gold. They just aren't that long though, so I will be posting three today, all separate replies.

Next one.

And the last one for today, this one has a great view.

Until next week.

For you, Skip…..

Have a great week, everyone!

Peter

Tall Building Tuesday fun, more long videos.