Industrial Area Renewal - Jones Avenue

Arial view of Jones Avenue.  Buildings from left to right;
Newsstand, Wuesty Bar (or whats left of it), Leather Goods Shop,
Fredricks Bakery, Salenas Tavern, along 121st Street

Midwest Fireproof Storage is in the background.  The track had to
realigned to match up with the rail yard table.  I wasn't planning on
having the track that serves Midwest Storage link to anything
however it lined up pretty well with the far yard track and it makes
for a nice run-around  track if it becomes needed.  The roadway is
Monster Modelworks brick sheet street sections.. I figured this is one of the
older parts of town, the Leather Goods shop is one of the oldest buildings
in the city and it has the date of 1846 up on the front of the buikding.

Side shot of Jones Avenue
The streets still need a great deal of work to blend the old brick
street into the concrete roads.  I was initially only going to have a vacant
lot for the remainder of the avenue, but I love buildings too much so there will
be a vacant lot behind the newstand which is next to Wuesty's burned out bar
and the Saxon Hotel will occupy the remainder of the block.

I used thin plexiglass for the base of the block and scribed
the sidewalk lines and curb into it and gave it a misting of
sand colored paint.

More to come!

Gottsacker Brewery

The newest large project for the renewal of the industrial area is the Gottsacker Brewery, Their motto is "Taste the Bier of Kings" ~ "Das Bier schmeckt der Könige"
There is an old malting plant where I live that partly inspired this, plus the amount of rail traffic coming in and out of this industry will make it a busy place.  Grain and hops in, empty bottles and crates, outgoing product via truck and rail.

Plastic plumbing tubes and  my favorite painters
tape make up the core of this structure.

Add some leftover plastic bits and other scrap box items

   

The structure on top is all scrap and the framing
from peel & stick window frames from some
wood structure kit.   The tank & platform on the bottom
are from a yard sanding facility.

Test fitting in the area with the base of the brewery.

The Gottsacker brewery is the Walthers Dairy complex /  wall
section's kit.  Sprayed red w/ a gray wash for the mortar lines.

Added Woodland Scenics LED lights (Love them!) a yellow one is added to the elevator shaft.

More photos to come as I finish the brewery complex.

NRTL Yard Extension & Industrial Area's Renewal

Looking south from the NRTL yard might look like a barren wasteland, but it is actually one of the first parts I ever completed on the tabletop design that I started years ago, it's the industrial area.  99% of the structures are removed and I will need to fix a couple of the tracks so they line up with the mainline and siding tracks from the yard area.

Looking north from the industrial area.  The majority of the trackwork will remain untouched other than the ballasting, as it wasn't my finest effort.  GEO Roberts will soon become part of a brewery complex with the structure in the center becoming the powerhouse.  I will also have malting plant and add back the great Downtown Deco Warehouse, after I fix the side that I hacked off.  (Haste makes waste!)

I don't want to loose this tiny block that contains the burned out hull of Wuesty's bar,  the Anchor Bar, and Salenas Tavern.  Due to the aligning of the tracks between the yard and the industrial areas I had to move the Italian restaurant around the corner and will reconfigure Salenas to the corner.  I'm planing on adding a skinny kithbash of a DPM Bulding as well.  Feeling pretty excited about it all!!