Good things come in narrow packages

[Steve]

Steve,

................It looks like it has had some additions added to it over the years and will be interesting to see how you backdate the building and make this struture fill the need of your layout. Will this building be associated with the overhead traveling crane or is that a seperate industry?

Greg, the building is not associated with the crane (that is for the NP freight house). In the real life scene, I could not get a clear pic of the building across the street from the freight yard, so this one was chosen instead. There will definitely be some back dating  

Boy, Steve, that building's a perfect prototype for a background structure: height and width, but almost no depth - a true "flat".

Wayne

Wayne, I cut out a pic of it and propped it up against the wall, and it looked pretty good.....I almost kept it there!

There is a lot of detail in the face of that building, the little squares, and diamonds, and the changing brick colors, and sidewalk elevations. I can't imagine a better "End-of-the-shelf" scene than that. Good choice !!!

Thanks Pete  
The sidewalk elevation change is a product of Google maps, and not there in real life (so luckily, I won't have to deal with that, I have enough to do already!  



This is my first brick building, and I had no idea which brick product would look nice for this structure. As I have said many times in the past, my LHS STINKS!!!! They have next to nothing on hand to look at. Kurt really helped me out and suggested using some N scale brick sheets by Vollmer. They are embossed cardboard and very easy to work with (and they are very cheap in comparison to many other products out there). Thank you Kurt!      

OK....A couple of progress pics
Styrene cut for front wall:


Starting on the brick:


In the mean time, I'll just keep laying brick.......................