coach joe posted:Alan, are you sure you're not one of those Imagineers that work for Disney. Reading your story I can now totally see the display rack heart of your skyscraper but I don't think I could have gone from A to B in my mind just by looking at the display rack. I will admit that some of buildings have made me aware of alternative uses for many objects.
Joe....anyone can do this! What one has to do is to start looking at re-purposing objects. I am into several different eras of railroading so I felt that my city should span a time frame architecturally from the mid-late 1940's to today. This way I could run steam as well as first generation diesels right up to current diesels. I wanted the skyline to have a few older structures but also have some glass walled buildings so it looked like there was progress taking place and not just set in a 10 year time span. In order to do this, I simply could not find ready made structures that fit the bill so I began to see every vertical object as a potential skyscraper conversion. I can tell many more stories of objects that have been turned into skyscrapers on my layout and if you start to look closely at the pictures I have posted over the years here on the forum and my Youtube channel, you will begin to notice some familiar everyday objects that have been "converted"....
