The "other" industrial layout...

[pwnj]

Man these layouts are just looking fantastic!  And I too am addicted to the non-squareness of buildings.  I'm still working on my hybrid fauxtotype layout based loosely on the Bush Terminal in Brooklyn and I'd been planning on doing the same.  Here's another building from the BT that was built around the tracks.

http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/indloco/bt31.jpg

Keep it up, peeps!

[Catt]

Square corners are good.Every building should have one.Straight walls are good too, as long as the walls connecting them have at least one that isn't.

[wazzou]

Leave the alley, both for functionality and aesthetics.

[nscalemike]

Leave the alley, both for functionality and aesthetics.

i agree,  but i do like the building

[Chris333]

Dang. I was sort of happy to lose the alley behind the apartment building because it would help hide that the first floor windows are cut off. See in the front they will be sunken down into small garden areas. On the side along the track I just bricked up the bottom window. I've been wondering how to work the back wall and thought hinding most of it would do the trick.

[M.C. Fujiwara]

Dang. I was sort of happy to lose the alley behind the apartment building because it would help hide that the first floor windows are cut off. See in the front they will be sunken down into small garden areas. On the side along the track I just bricked up the bottom window. I've been wondering how to work the back wall and thought hinding most of it would do the trick.

Garbage Dumpster.
Ice Cream Man.
Kids playing Spin the Bottle
(or Kids playing Smack the Bottle on the Ice Cream Man's Head into the Garbage Dumpster).

Funk yr junk.
The scene will steal the seams.

[wazzou]

I trust that you'll figure it out.

[DKS]

The scene will steal the seams.

If you can even see it. Judging from the arrangement of surrounding buildings, about the only good view will be from directly above.

But, assuming it is more visible, then turn the sunken windows into doors, and add walls around steps to make below-grade entrances.

[Alaska Railroader]

Leave the alley, both for functionality and aesthetics.

I concur. FWIW I came up with an idea to give you a bigger building and have two alleys. This is such a cool building that its too bad you don't have space to put the longer version elsewhere on your layout, especially since you have photos of the real thing.

[Chris333]

That is probably what I will do, but may leave out the alley to the left since the 2 buildings are supposed to be linked.

Right across the curved track will still be an alleyway to get behind the other buildings. I put 2 "Bruce's bakery's" together and did this to the back side:



The wood porch is from Earl Smallshaw tenement row kit.

[DKS]

Most excellent. Love the porches.

Hmmm... I have a couple of those Smallshaw kits...

[Chris333]

Hmmm... I have a couple of those Smallshaw kits...

but you also have access to a laser and a company that could use some DPM upgrade kits.

Just sayin' 

Even though I've had the kits for a while. I got the idea for the porches from your Z scale building kits.

[luis_lopes]

Som serious modelling around here.  I am getting ideas to my own layout. Keep it up.

[Lemosteam]

Anybody make an etched pull down fire escape alley ladder?  They belong on these layouts...

[pwnj]

Anybody make an etched pull down fire escape alley ladder?  They belong on these layouts...

Yep! Gold Medal Models makes nice ones: http://www.goldmm.com/nscale/gmnsfesc.htm