Jamie’s been in touch with a load of fab pics of his HO scale people.
Adding people adds so much life to a layout.
And Jamie stories behind each scene also has me smiling:
Jameie’s been in touch again with his stunning HO layout:
“Alastair,
Welcome again…if this is too much too soon, I understand.
I have stories behind all of these scenery setups…
Two workers returning to the office at the canning company at Barcelona peer.
Salvatore, a first generation from Italy carries bags of potatoes from the Desiderio food distribution facility.
John, and Ernie, both Originally from Ireland take a closer look at a car that’s made its way from the West coast.
These two brothers, Lowell and Lee, have never been able to agree on anything… they might even disagree if the sky was blue… if it was ever sunny.
Pasquale pushes that cart along all day and even though his English “isn’t so good” he loves chatting it up with his fellow employees
The King Brothers (they are twins) and they married two sisters… their glass blowing company sells beautiful pieces all over the world.
Oscar Rayford, owns the local concrete plant… he’s responsible for all the sidewalks in town
David Gray, a huge man… is seen switching here for a shipment of sand to Rayfords concrete. David, is one of the key actors in the theater group in Buffalo Creek.
Rick Wilber, a novelist that specializes in Science Fiction books opened a bookstore and it attracts a wide variety of people. They are anxiously awaiting the store opening on a nice Sunday morning.
Romito-Donnelly makes furniture and their key designer was Vincent Tondiglia, also an Architect, Vincent can be seen in his Little Italy studio drawing a new building. He is also this authors father in law.
Down in Lackawanna Jim Collins works along with many Irishmen at the Bethlehem Steel plant. Here, a pot is being moved.
Angelo is waiting for a local delivery to pass his tower… there are 4 NYC towers in the area, Angelo has worked in all four the towers for the railway and is the longest employed tower operator.
Hooker Chemical in Niagara Falls makes some nasty chemicals, we’d all come to find out years later, but in this time period their tankers can be seen everywhere.
I hope you find these interesting enough to post… if not, I’d certainly understand
Jamie”
Well, Jamie, it’s never too soon to post new pics, and they are definitely interesting enough – I loved them. And the stories behind each picture really do bring it to life.
If you missed Jamie’s last post, it’s here.
Jamie’s post reminded me of one of Dan’s:
That’s all for today folks.
Please do keep ’em coming.
And if today is the day you get started on your layout, the silly sale for the Beginner’s Guide is here.
It’s a great way to support the blog. Thank you to everyone who already bought – I’m really looking forward to seeing your printable buildings on your layouts!
Best
Al
PS Latest ebay cheat sheet is here.
PPS More HO scale train layouts here if that’s your thing.