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Great links and photos.  Also thanks to Steve Markowitz for sending me some links.

The colorized photo implies the original color of the columns was brown.  However, I have also seen photos of green columns in later years.  One thing I've learned in modeling these stations is that there appears to be a precedent for just about anything you can imagine.  So I'm leaning towards the same rich dark green that I used for the 42nd Street station module, because I like it more.

I agree that if someone ever models the City Hall Station, that will be a pinnacle in subway modeling!  And gap fillers are not required, since the station never had them and only end doors opened on the cars in that station.

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For my sidewalk subway entrance I was planning to kitbash the Lemax subway kiosk (needs alteration as the proportions are not right) with the Modeltechstudios generic O scale vintage subway entrance kit (too wide). It bothered me that the resulting entrance in O scale would overpower my 9" wide street scene above the station. Then I came across this 3d printed "S" scale exact replica of an IRT entrance kiosk on Shapeways, and realized it is perfect for the limited space I have. S scale can work well on an O scale layout in the right circumstances.

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For my sidewalk subway entrance I was planning to kitbash the Lemax subway kiosk (needs alteration as the proportions are not right) with the Modeltechstudios generic O scale vintage subway entrance kit. It bothered me that the resulting entrance in O scale would overpower my 9" wide street scene above the station. Then I came across this S scale exact replica of an IRT entrance kiosk on Shapeways, and realized it is perfect for the limited space I have. S scale can work well on an O scale layout in the right circumstances.

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It certainly can, great find and nice work!

Or in those stations that have a platform on either side of a single track (which will come in handy at the end of this post). I totally agree with your point. I plead extenuating circumstances:

The layout is a module that connects with two other ones, all of them the same size. On the other modules (a tunnel and an express stop) I've placed the single track on the edge away from the viewer (the "back"). Since this module was a local station, I routed the track from the connection with the other modules, to the "front" so the viewer could see the station from the platform edge all the way to the back wall, which I hope to embellish with the beautiful tile work and station signing of the original 1905 IRT stations. But the s-curve  geometrics of the Lionel tubular track placed it so close to the front edge that there was no room left for the third rail at the front.

So knowing that when necessity rears its head (such as at the station illustrated in the link below) the third rail can be located under the platform edge, I throw myself on the mercy of the court.😁

http://www.nydailynews.com/res...T47L345JGGB5HOM.jpeg

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Or in those stations that have a platform on either side of a single track (which will come in handy at the end of this post). I totally agree with your point. I plead extenuating circumstances:

The layout is a module that connects with two other ones, all of them the same size. On the other modules (a tunnel and an express stop) I've placed the single track on the edge away from the viewer (the "back"). Since this module was a local station, I routed the track from the connection with the other modules, to the "front" so the viewer could see the station from the platform edge all the way to the back wall, which I hope to embellish with the beautiful tile work and station signing of the original 1905 IRT stations. But the s-curve  geometrics of the Lionel tubular track placed it so close to the front edge that there was no room left for the third rail at the front.

So knowing that when necessity rears its head (such as at the station illustrated in the link below) the third rail can be located under the platform edge, I throw myself on the mercy of the court.😁

http://www.nydailynews.com/res...T47L345JGGB5HOM.jpeg

Not at all, it’s still well done and spectacular.

I copy the image off the internet to my laptop, insert it into Powerpoint, reduce it to the desired size, and print it on glossy or matte paper in my Deskjet printer, with the quality set to "best" and the paper to "glossy". I believe it helps to select the Internet image with the highest resolution. When you search images on the Internet, the thumbnails usually show the number of pixels in the image (for instance, 400 x 800). The higher those numbers are, the sharper the image will be.

Yes, you are correct. On my Times Square module the third rail is along the station wall across from the platform. On this  (Viejo San Juan) module, as the track enters and leaves the module, the third rail is in fact on the "correct" side of the track, but as the track curves around the platform, it comes so close to the edge of the module, there's no room for the third rail on the "correct" side of the track, and so I switched it over to the "wrong" side. I could have just left the third rail off, but like you I like the look of the thing, so it's on the platform side. 😁

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