Evening Everyone,
I have my new layout taking shape here and I’ve seen some posts on the site here dealing with modeling urban areas and so I thought I would post my “shot” at trying to model an urban area on here. I’ve always wanted to have a model train layout, as I’ve always had model trains really all of my life, and I’ve always had a love for cities (especially Chicago) and so three years ago I began one of the greatest building projects that I’ve ever undertaken: building a model railroad set within a large-scale downtown area. I wanted to model some buildings from Chicago, so when I made my annual trip there that Christmas I took many pictures of the Sears Tower and thus have tried to replicate it on this layout. As you can see in the attached URL link that has the pictures of my city on them, the Sears Tower is the tallest building in the background towards the left-center of the picture. To the left of the Sears Tower stands a replica of on of the rederings of New York’s new Freedom Tower, to which while I was building this building the design plans on the real tower were changed again. In front of the Freedom Tower are the towers that used to occupy that space in New York-the World Trade Center. I wanted a “financial center” component to my city and I thought these two buildings would be both fitting and appropriate for the site. I have many other high-rises on the layout, some of which are Department 56 buildings that I have purchased in Chicago for this city over the past few years; another of which is a Lego building that I built this past Christmas (The building labeled “Chicago Police”). I also have a Menards and behind that is my replica of Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium (a.k.a. Cinergy Field). I basically grew up in this stadium and thought it would be nea