Pictures of your village

Fort Pitt High Railer module.

Thanks, Spence, I much appreciate your being so laudatory. Thank you, sincerely.

FrankM.

How about a summer scene.

Thanks for all the posts, gives one plenty of ideas.

British Invasion!

Really cool photo and scene. You must like the Beatles, Emile. And to think to use a Pan Am, that's putting it in the correct period. Outstanding!!!!

More village scenes...

FrankM.

Really like what the flower boxes add. Your work is always an inspiration.

The only thing I have trouble adjusting to is the narrow streets viewed,2 lanes, and no shoulder or street parking. It just isn't that way from what I have seen outside of Rome Italy and they too have limited street parking for them tiny cars they drive. 

I do like your villages and they are very well done. I won't be going that way as when mine are done they will represent far West towns where little town except 4 a gas and food market and a few homes in a wide spot in the highway along the mainline. 

It isn't much of a village, but it has some prime real estate being developed.  

A white frame two story hotel is finished except for the electrical work and hanging the sign.  The AmeriTown country store is under construction and the construction material for the River Leaf Models Drug store has arrived via rail, and is sitting on a siding outside of town.  What will be next??

Oh yes, the county highway department has contracted to have the tar and chips streets replaced with concrete. 

Mike,

I don't believe I have seen this one.  It is great!

Gentlemen,

   The Pine Creek Village is a very child like wonderland.

PCRR/Dave

Thank you, Bill. Those "boxes" are made by simply cutting a long square stick/rod of wood into segments, painting the segments white, gluing the small amounts of foliage to them; then, gluing each to the building facade. I took a chance, I thought, with the project, but hoped they would be what I had pictured in my imagination. I'm glad you feel they did the trick.

Here's another building I crafted with flower boxes...

Hi Phill, I am intrigued by your point here, as I have always given such considerations considerable thought as I plan what the interior dimensions of an overall layout can contain.

Where practicable in the whole landscape, I have provided for shoulders and parking, sometimes along both sides of a thoroughfare, even if just for the opportunity to show-off cars. Some side streets get no parking, regrettable but practical. Real estate on a layout gets very precious very quickly, doesn't it. Sometimes, I have crafted one-side of the street parking lanes, even bus stop pull-over areas. Other streets have received pull-in areas for parking. These photos will identify those efforts for you:

These first three photos evidence curbside parking and bus stop provisions...

In this project, that long avenue, after much configuring and re-configuring, received no parking on either side, alas. I just could not sacrifice that much square footage considering what I had planned, overall, for the neighborhoods along both sides of the avenue's length...

I have felt that if a cityscape were interesting enough to explore with the eye, perhaps a detail such as "street-fidelity" might be overlooked or forgiven, though I'd rather have had more realistic parking all along. Perhaps, it's a matter of trade-offs when one plans a layout?

FrankM.

I have posted some photos before, of at least two of my towns, these three of which are temporary tests for track planning.  Arroyo Dorado is a ghost town, Arsenic Springs

a mining town that is still barely hanging on, and Coalforest has coal and lumbering still active (1940).  The major junction city, Front Range, and the terminal

city, Mountain Park,  have not yet been layed out experimentally.

Whoops, Caption is wrong, "Downtown Coalforest" is actually "Downtown Arsenic

Springs".  Will attemp to add downtown Coalforest.

The North St. Crossing in St.Paul

city scene under development at the NLOE club layout

some more recent shots of the station area

A little older.

Out of hundreds of laudatory features on your club layout in all those pictures, I would draw attention to how effectively you folks have accentuated and enriched and embellished the whole village-scape by the presence of that fully foliated, verdant hill behind it. As in life, plants soften the hard edges of a vista of buildings, for the better.

FrankM.

here are some pictures of the village on my previous marx layout...old school toy train style...all cardboard structures...

howard...

Here's a link to the site about making most of the tin-look structures in the above post...

http://bigindoortrains.com/pri.../lackie/tinplate.htm

Howard...

Changing things around a bit before scenery work - I still need to come up with another building for the right-end (the Menards building is now gone)

All those scenes of your layout - bright, cheerful, and clean, in a way, how I remember my childhood neighborhood in Duquesne, PA being, back in the 50's. You did a splendid job, done clearly with a philosophy of fun in mind. Congratulations on your success at this.

FrankM..

Al Galli,

  I love your Classic Tin Plate Village, Great stuff done correctly!  Wish like the devil I still had our original Tin Plate village and Farm for the Christmas layout.

PCRR/Dave

Inspired by Phill to think further about parking (or the lack thereof) on a layout, here are some more Village Scenes for your thread, Wood...

(He's really got me thinking about this aspect of a layout's features.)

FrankM.