I’m debating using some high rise buildings in my layout and want to see if anyone else has done this with theirs and what it looks like. If you have any pics posted here would be appreciate or you can email them to me as well! thanks.
How “high” is high-rise? I’ve got a number of 3 and 4-story buildings. They are currently just perched on white foamboard awaiting work by the incredibly slow Moose Bay Highway Department. Take a look at some of Jon Grant’s photos for a more mature look at urban Chicago.
The foreground building is the rear of Model Power’s “Baldy’s Barber Shop” with Walthers “Vintage” fire escapes. Behind that is DPM’s “First National Bank.”
The January issue of MRR has a canadian layout that has a nice city scene. And there’s always the Franklin & South Manchester ( http://www.trevinocircle.com/FSM.asp ).
Here’s a shot of a still-under-construction section of Jacksboro, NY, on my Hudson Highlands Railroad. Many of the structures are kitbashed and based on stacked kits. The tallest is about 11-stories high.
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Though my N scale layout is set in a small town, it is modern era, so I’m trying to find out how to make a mid-rise office building (5-7 stories) out of a stack of rolling stock jewelboxes. Each box is about the scale height of a commercial office story.
A number of new kits became available through http://www.custommodelrailroads.com/ You can see them at the great scale train show every year in Timonium.
Most tall buildings are scratchbuilt however using DPM, Walthers modulars, or kitbashed City Classics fronts. Bachman used to make some nice high rises, however they are no longer in production.
Kalbach publishes an EXCELLENT book on creating cities titled: “Building City Scenary for your Model Railroad” http://kalmbachcatalog.stores.yahoo.net/12204.html
Probably the most famous: Franklin and South Manchester by George S.
