Do we need more random scenery or no?

[qballbandit]

Love the movie theatre. Possibly some side and/or rear access doors?

[pwillard]

Not shown, Rear door. My thinking is that it's designed to snuggle in between buildings in a city downtown setting... so no side doors.

[CSRX]

I always do need various paper mill parts and buildings.

Westbrook, and Gilman mainly.
Heck, even the old Agway Mill in Steep Falls. Haha

[johnnyboy99]

some scenery I was thinking of we don't have enough of:
residential houses with garages
bicycle path signs and bicycle paths
roundabout and split lane road pieces
toll booths
suspension bridges
streets with sidewalks
VERY TALL trestles like the Lethbridge viaduct (the ones we already have don't go down long enough)
Kartrak scanners from the 1970's
telltales (I think we have those already?)
trailer loading ramps
golf carts
animals like goats, cats, bears, etc.
fov lane signs and lights for highways
interstate highway tunnels
wide tunnels for 4 track mainlines or interstate highways
I could go on forever

[pwillard]

I always do need various paper mill parts and buildings.

Westbrook, and Gilman mainly.
Heck, even the old Agway Mill in Steep Falls. Haha

Well, that hits me in the nostalgia. I was born in Westbrook, and all my dad's side of the family lives in Steep Falls. I do think I strarted working on some Mill bits and bobs already.

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Nice list Johnnyboy99...

I think I already have a completed truck ramp and even dock doors. I've never even thought of doing road models.

[CSRX]

Well Pete, that's the one good thing about doing the old Maine Central Mountain Division route, it does bring back memories to a lot of people, and knowing someone from the area with better modeling skills than I am for scenery objects, is always a bonus!

I got part of the mill complex from the library (AGS Mill?) in place, but it isn't exactly looking like the Sappi Mill, haha

[pwillard]

Any pictures or references would be helpful

[CSRX]

Unfortunately, the only things I can find for the 1980 timeframe, is online. Sometimes there is a Facebook group that shares some of the older photos from those areas, but not very often. I can always keep diving into it. I did find some reference photos for the old Gilman Paper Mill in Vermont, but even then, part of it was already torn down.

Taking a look, it does appear that Google Earth Pro now has the mill in Westbrook as a 3d set up, so if that helps a bit, awesome! If not, that is fine I can still find pitctures, though the Google Earth view seems to be the best way to get up close and personal for all the buildings.

[Metra322]

Chain hotels
major banks
truck stops
strip malls and other suburban sprawl scenery
more fast food and and casual chain restaurants
more utility and high voltage poles especially those monopoles
a block of parked vehicles
playgrounds

[pwillard]

I just uploaded the movie theater to the file library. I verified that it works with TSRE and has working night textures.

[qballbandit]

Thank you Pete, it looks great!

[scfe_fan]

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Hang on, I seem to recall that was so it was readable when truckers are backing in... You often see both normal and reversed as far as I know (not a trucker)

It is in fact so that us truckers can read it in our mirrors while we are sitting in the driver's seat waiting for them to finish unloading us. Also, if you plan on doing anymore warehouses, I can ABSOLUTELY give you any insights you want for the dock doors as someone who has backed into and sat in hundreds if not thousands over the last 15 years.