Certainly, there are many reasons to feature rail served industries on a layout beyond the operational aspect. If you’re modeling a section of a specific prototype, and the industry is there, you’d probably want to include it on your layout just to be accurate. You’d do so whether you care about operations or not. If […]
Category: Brooklyn Terminal
Brooklyn Terminal October 29
Time to start replacing the temporary Peco flex track with the permanent hand laid code 40. Once you get the hang of it, scratch built turnouts aren’t that hard to do. They also give you more flexibility in terms of shape, cost less, and are ultimately more reliable. I started by photo copying some Peco […]
Brooklyn Terminal Oct. 27
As work progresses on the Brooklyn Terminal Warehouses the overall look of the layout begins to take shape. For the most part the layout represents the old Bush Terminal’s 1st Avenue corridor in Brooklyn.
BT Warehouses October 21, 2018
BT Warehouses
One of the signature features of the Brooklyn waterfront are the massive, often identical, warehouses lined up side by side. Many still stand today and have been upgraded for commercial space. Walthers Hardwood Furniture kits are a plausible fit for the warehouses. I’ll do some light kitbashing, including adding elevator towers, to make them […]