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I have been on a bit of a building bender lately, putting a bunch of buildings together to occupy some newly-created real estate on my layout.

This is a slightly modded Downtown Deco Metals Bank kit. I built the front with a freight door to handle bulky railroad damaged merchandise that is sold at discount to the hard working and thrifty residents of Northbrook. It is named for my favorite YouTube hobo, Jim Stobie (RIP).

Here’s a late progress shot in my shop and a couple of color test shots plunked on the layout.

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Thx guys! J, it is going near the front of the layout. I pulled my car shop out to relocate it and to expand Northbrook down along the front mains. I am going to build a bunch of stuff in the shop first then work out the street layout when I think I am done. I have a TW Trainworx freight station seen in the background that will go where the car shop was. I am trying to decide if I want to put another siding in.

Thx guys. As for lighting/interiors, I have a few buildings with interiors (Angel's Flight Hotel, AMW car shop, power plant and of course my roundhouse) and mild lighting effects. I have been making most of my buildings with removable roofs (with a bit of sacrifice to fully proper roof modeling) just in case I get the idea that I want to do an interior at some point.

Last edited by Norm Charbonneau

Stobe was amazing. In one of his videos he hopped a train wearing Crocs and managed to drag an old 10 speed bike along with him onto a flatcar. He cut his foot pretty badly and was worried about being seen riding the bike around with a bloody Croc foot, thinking it would arouse suspicion of him being a hobo. His social commentary was really interesting. Wish he was still with us.

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