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 Posted - October 18 2015 : 11:55:55 AM
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My BOTW for this week is a Pola H0 scale signal tower that's pretty beat up. I'm planning on turning it into an abandoned signal tower for my next switching section.
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Posted - October 18 2015 : 4:51:27 PM
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| Neato.
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Posted - October 18 2015 : 5:47:01 PM
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quote:Neato.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â October 18 2015Â :Â 4:51:27 PM
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Thank you.
-Steve
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Posted - October 18 2015 : 7:49:23 PM
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| That building looks to have a lot of potential Steve.
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Posted - October 19 2015 : 12:28:32 AM
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My Bachmann Contemporary Home. Will get more detail in the future...
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Posted - October 19 2015 : 08:31:51 AM
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My old Arora Town School house.
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Posted - October 19 2015 : 09:21:50 AM
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quote:That building looks to have a lot of potential Steve.
Originally posted by Barry - October 18 2015 : 7:49:23 PM
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It does actually.It's just very beat up to the point where it kinda looks like a derelict structure. I'm thinking about weathering it, maybe putting some boards on the windows, and just overall making it look old and abandoned.
-Steve
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Posted - October 20 2015 : 2:53:17 PM
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Used to ride my bike to a school like that, then
bike faster at the end of the day to run my
Tyco. Nice memories. Great iconic little piece.
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Posted - October 20 2015 : 4:00:07 PM
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| Those were good days Jeff when when the only worries we had was how quickly we could get to our Tyco trains...
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Posted - October 21 2015 : 1:26:44 PM
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| the Aurtown School was later used for Tyco's Lighted Factory
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Posted - October 21 2015 : 5:59:27 PM
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A view of the El Paso terminus on Rainer Foerrest's layout.
Another view of Rainer's work, as the train approaches the terminus.
The background is a mosaic photograph of El Paso. The low lying buildings to the
south of the high rises are in Juarez, Mexico. We live, as it were, cheek to
jowl. In the prototypical El Paso, the trains actually traverse the downtown area
in an underground tunnel. When the trains first arrived in El Paso, in 1881, they
caused all kinds of traffic problems for decades. A similar situation occurred, for
decades, with the National de Mexico traversing the downtown of Juarez for
trains interchanging with the United States. In the past few years, the Mexican rail
has been completely relaid circumventing congested areas.
Edited by - Chops124 on October 21 2015 6:09:55 PM
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Posted - October 24 2015 : 8:30:14 PM
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Some great looking buildings this week. Always good to see some Plasticville. I've been lying low lately but here's another Cityscape building That I was cleaning up. It's been kicked around the layout a bit and needs a permanent location before I detail up too much more.  
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Posted - October 25 2015 : 12:39:35 AM
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Cool photos Jeff and good history on the El Paso and Jaurez lines. That mosaic photo of El Paso seems to be a sort of convincing backdrop for that part of the layout.
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A view of the El Paso terminus on Rainer Foerrest's layout.
Another view of Rainer's work, as the train approaches the terminus.
The background is a mosaic photograph of El Paso. The low lying buildings to the
south of the high rises are in Juarez, Mexico. We live, as it were, cheek to
jowl. In the prototypical El Paso, the trains actually traverse the downtown area
in an underground tunnel. When the trains first arrived in El Paso, in 1881, they
caused all kinds of traffic problems for decades. A similar situation occurred, for
decades, with the National de Mexico traversing the downtown of Juarez for
trains interchanging with the United States. In the past few years, the Mexican rail
has been completely relaid circumventing congested areas.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â October 21 2015Â :Â 5:59:27 PM
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