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[Riptrack59]

Nice work on the modeling and textures on the building!

Thanks. There are two way to texture at my current skill level. Use lower resolution and add shadowing to the texture, or tile the textured and capture the hi resolution of the texture. So far I've gone with the second option when making buildings. I've not been able to find a happy medium so far without using a incredibly huge texture map.

[Riptrack59]

Next Building up...This is the Bravman Furniture Wholesale Building. This sits directly behind The Thomas C. Thomas Building. Believe it or not this old warehouse is also still standing, all though I believe it sits empty. This was the original building that the city of Wilkes-Barre had their files stored in but a leaky roof a couple of years back made them move all the files to the TCT Building.





Now there will be a slow down in route production due to the fact that the rest of the buildings in this area are not built yet...L&WV Wilkes-Barre Depot, Wilson & Company, Swift Meats and The Lehigh Beef Company are the next creations to be made.

[Riptrack59]

Here is the next building to be made. This is the Swift & Company Building. This was one of the many meat packing plants on the line. To the left of the main plant was a triangle shaped storage building. These buildings were located at this location in Wilkes-Barre until Hurricane Agnes flooded the rail yard in 1972. All the Laurel Line buildings along with many other railroad structures in this area was removed for an urban renewal project.



Building these models will now start to get a bit tricky. The picture below is the only real reference picture I have of this building. This picture only shows the front of the building. The back of the building was connected to the Laurel Line Wilkes-Barre Freight Depot. I guess the photographer didn't want to show that in the picture. All the other pictures that I have show very little details of these Wilkes-Barre Yard buildings. I've done many internet searches and this was the only picture I could find on any of these rail yard buildings. For some unknown reason there are very few pictures of the Wilkes-Barre railroad infrastructure in general. At one time there was a big rail yard at this location. Along with the Laurel Line, The Lehigh Valley, New Jersey Central, The Delaware & Hudson and the Pennsylvania Railroad all had yards located in Wilkes-Barre.