Sunday, March 26, 2017

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!