I haven't posted in a while
I haven't posted anything here in while so I suppose it's time for an update.
The Hudson & Hartford hasn't had much work done on it since I last posted but I have been busy trying to see what kind of buildings might fit. I have gotten a few Model Power N Scale structures together with some from Walthers, Pola, Life Like and some others. a few seem to have been marketed bay several different companies (notably Pola and Model Power) but they all seem to fit together nicely. And they will fit in one particular loacation on the layout as well since these buildings make up a block that will fit in a particular corner of the layout.
Most of these structures are 4 stories or less and thus can easily represent the kind of buildings found around the railroad tracks in Brooklyn and Queens, NY. While the tracks are seen from the streets in many places in Brooklyn and Queens, the rail movemnets can usually be heard in many locations. This includes areas where many people have lived for years without any knowledge that a railroad is present!
My problem is now is how to puplicate such things as ever present railroad that is hidden from the general public. In certain places this is easy to do because the tracks run through a cut that is below ground level and hidden on the overpass by massive concrete walls that are neither climbable nor can one one walk around them since the walls are attached t the buildings located on either side. I obviously need photos, but I don't have access to them as I am at work and those photos are on my computer at home. I guess I'll need to continue this there later today.
Irv
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Irv,
Having said that, I think this layout www.bobsgardenpath.com/Haas.html has some good inspiration for how to do it. This is the current work of Bob Smaus, who has published in MR and elsewhere before. He's doing a lot of what I think of as hidden in plain sight railroad modeling now - but in LA as opposed to NYC. Perhaps he can give you some guidance or inspiration.
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I took a look...
I took a look at what you provided. That is done (or was done) in NYC too. But sometimes the rails are blocked by trees and in one particuar case a cemetary. There were rails that ran through a building at ine time in Manhattan though I don't remember where that was these days.
Irv