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When I was a teenager (ancient times) a buddy and I stumbled onto an old new in the box skyline kit for 4 buildings.    We pooled our funds and bought it for Lionel layouts.    He took the water tower and freight station, and I took the passenger station and control tower.    These have survived over 50 years and have been fixed up a little but are basically original.    I think the big think I did was add more internal bracing to straighten out a little warping.

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I think they still look pretty good from 3 feet away.

I have also scratchbuilt a couple of industrial buildings using "strathmore" or poster board and Grandt Line or Tichy windows and doors.

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Oops do not have photo of other industrial stuff.

The following is the back, trackside, of a line of commercial buildings in one of my towns.    the fronts are not visible from any angle and are blank.    These are 1/4 inch foam core, brick paper and again grandt line plastic windows and doors.

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Finally there was an outfit called "Pioneer Valley" that sold paper kits and I bought a few.   

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The Pioneer Valley stuff is pretty crude compared to what you can do with the new printable paper kits today.

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