Jim , Those are some cool ideas and very acurate for the area.
On the ACTRR I have Fifer Unobtainium which also sells its product to the US Atomic Warfare Administration , but the employees are now striking.
El Cap , That is a fine plan and layout so far and I think your helper likes it!
Mike
Great layouts! I was going to the southwest, but decided at the last minute to model the southEAST in N scale. Hazzard County to be specific, home of the Dukes.[C):-)][(-D]
I model the Tonopah and Tidewater RR in Nevada. Will start my desert scenery soon. I’ll post some pictures then. - Nevin
One of Mfifer’s photos of a structure in Bisbee…
reminds me somewhat of a structure from Kato in N scale, sold as either a “school” or “city hall” or “administration building”. But looks kind of like Mfifer’s photo. I could not immediately find a link to a photo, and I think this is a structure NOT sold by KatoUSA but available through a Japanese eBay store. If U R interested.
I once had a tiny little kit for a southwestern style mission chapel-- a European manufacture such as Kibri or Faller or Vollmeer or Pola but I don’t remember which one-- some 30 years ago…a chapel that would have accomodated a dozen worshippers. I used the mission on a generic Southwestern injtended to represent a romanticized/generic Santa Fe theme…before I really knew all that much about the Santa Fe. A layout built in a month as a commission for a kid’s Christmas present.
I threw together another generic"southwestern" layout in about 12 or 15 hours for a display back in 1974. Hard-shell Hydrocal terrain, Zip texturing, kitty-litter rock rubble, dyed pipe cleaner for sagauro cactus.
Frito was an active company in Texas back in the 1950s-- I don’t know about the “Lay” part, that may have been a merger. I remember Fritos (byt eh brand name) as a popular part of my lunch when I was 2nd grader in 1950. Not depending on memory but going to a documented historical source, the April 1955 Corpus Christi Texas Southwestern Bell Telephone Company directory lists the “Frito Sales Company” in the warehouse district.
wow ,nice work guys.nice picts