Wanted - pictures of your town/streets

My town was in a small corner of the layout. Hope this helps a little. Don

Don that is really great looking.  Would you share a few more photos and maybe take an aerial that shows how the town is laid out.  I always have trouble figuring out how to lay out streets where they hit the rails.

Streets on my layout are made of 1/8" thick corrugated cardboard cut from appliance boxes. The roads are finished in dark gray flat latex paint.

 

Some shots of my 'Downtwn' area...

 

 

 

Best mood shot in model railroading.........IMHO.......my goal is to get near that level.

I have used two techniques for city streets, sidewalks, and scenes. The first photo is from the winter portion of our layout where I used street material from Scenic Express and porcelain sidewalks by D56.

 

Th second photo shows the streets in the other portions of our layout. For streets, I used black asphalt shingles which gives a very realistic look. The seams do not show. This proved to be very cost effective to run a significant amount of streets.

 

 

Not Mine, But this is what it is all about!!!!!!!!!

Here is Wabanville, most of which consists of Lionel buildings including a bookstore, Hard Rock Cafe, toy store with Lionel and Hornby advertisements, the Trackside Hotel

(ex Bakery), Mario's Pizzeria, an art gallery (wife's an artist), an ice cream parlor, candy store, and market.  I elevated the station to release space for the town, and recently moved the large Hornby engine shed off into a corner for display only.

 

Lew Schneider

Looks like Frank is back!!...

 

Here is a view down one street downtown...

Alan

 

Little Texas town of "Longhorn Flats", population 41.  Town consists of a small general store, saloon, bank, garage/gas station and hotel/brothel (which is located on the second floor).  Local economy draws from cattle, Gusher pipe company, oil and of course the brothel.

 

Steve, Lady and Tex

 

 

  

Using Masonite, all the way to the rails can not only enlarge the usable space in a small area but also makes a small area less distracted by hiding the ties. This station is inside 1/2 of an 0-31 circle. The town(out of view) is only going to be 3-4 buildings.
 

I'm between layouts at the moment but here is the town I had on my former MPC/LTI layout from 1982-1994.  Except for the power plant the entire town was a single street sandwiched between the passenger station and a freight yard.  

 

-Duncan

 

Here's my town Wigville .

 

Guy

Always a treat taking in your wonderful photo's and layout craftsmanship.

Steve, Lady and Tex

 

 

 

Sorry did the same picture twice. This is the one I wanted to post. Don

Space was at a premium so I put the town over the station tracks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

here is my contribution.





Andre.

 

 

I think Frank and Don have done some incredible modeling and Frank in his small space, his modeling was so good I never realized he has tubular track running on his layout. 

 

My Flickr page has more pictures to rummage through http://www.flickr.com/photos/tedmackel/8414000653/

 

 

There are some magnificent modeling scenes in this thread.  Mine don't measure up but in the interest of "Fair an balanced " coverage I'll go ahead and post mine. 

This is part of my city scene w the ELevated subway.

 

jim r from bridgeboss.com

 

 

 

 

 

Pete

here are pics of the unfinished city I was building. these are pics of the ongoing progress, then the city went bankrupt from crime and it was all demolished!   this was a living room layout, wife said take it down.  I got carried away with details. 

chris

Foamcore board creates the sidewalks in Plasticville.

Norton, Love your hot dog stand. My Pop had four of them around LA. Mind if I copy yours?  Don