Layout Update #2 - Brooklyn Queens Extension Railway - HO Scale

Let's take a look at one of the waterfront scenes on the layout - this Brooklyn/ Queens NY, 1970's themed layout is very much in progress. Much of the layout is set around the two industrial waterways of Queens and Brooklyn; the Newtown Creek and the Gowanus Canal - two of the most notoriously polluted waterways in the country, especially in the 1970's. This makes for a great modeling opportunity, detailing lots of junk and low tide. Thanks for watching. Please check out our site to see some of the kits featured in the video as well as over 100 HO Scale kits:
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[@ukguy69a]

Looking great Doug, it's infectious to listen to you talking about areas that some would consider finished but then listen to your excitement about what you have planned in the future for that area. Love the 'finished', detailed waterfront areas, your scenery and blending of areas together has come a long way over the years. Big plans, big ideas, big results, keep it up. Karl. A

[@OtterCreek]

Fantastic looking layout Doug!

[@DJE2025]

👍 Very nice video, thanks for sharing! This was my first visit, glad I got a suggested notification. Many recommendation from Jason Jenson Trains. Awesome layout can't wait to see the Pepsi build complete. 🚂

[@FosScaleModels]

Thanks Dave, will be working on it soon.

[@toddwiley3043]

I love that you are doing more videos lately! Your kits have always been nothing short of outstanding, and the videos help to inspire all of us to get to work and start building and doing our scenery. excellent quality how to's, ideas, and techniques lend to compliment everything that is FOS Scale Models.

[@FosScaleModels]

Thanks Todd!

[@lorenhendrix-og3ky]

The Pepsi sign with all that grid support, is going to look BOSS !!!

[@andrekoneczny6616]

Greatly appreciate seeing your layout planning and design work coming together, as well as your additional modeling techniques. Really appreciate seeing a period and region that showcases allot of junk ..! Great video. Keep them com..!

[@FosScaleModels]

Thanks Andre, the more junk the better!

[@Griphook3D]

Amazing , great work!

[@FosScaleModels]

Thx Mike

[@BradLobregt]

Great modelling. Very inspiring…

[@FosScaleModels]

Thx Brad.

[@charlierumsfeld6626]

PEPSI!!! I will be waiting to see how this comes out.

[@FosScaleModels]

Thanks Charlie!

[@NewHavenRails]

Looks great Doug!

[@FosScaleModels]

Thanks Ron!

[@chuckstewart9102]

Doug, your work is so inspirational…..which unfortunately, for me, turns into depression, when I take stock of my meager talent. But don’t worry about me… I thrive on depression! 😁😁😁

[@FosScaleModels]

Thx Chuck, keep at it, only gets better with every kit you build!

[@michaelimpey1407]

Doug, great layout update. Thank you for sharing. It is interesting to see, and hear your vision. Cheers, and stay safe, Michael

[@FosScaleModels]

Thanks Michael!

[@luvindemtrains]

Doug, thanks for sharing your vision. Based on what you have already done, I know it will be top notch. Look forward to seeing your progress.

[@FosScaleModels]

Thx for watching.

[@JasonJensenTrains]

So great to see the layout up close. Incredible work! Very inspiring!!!

[@FosScaleModels]

Thanks Jason!

[@bens3641]

wow. Among the best for sure. I hope to buy and build Foscale models for my tiny railroad and can only hope to achieve something close to this detail and quality. Excellent!

[@FosScaleModels]

Thanks for watching Ben!

[@eTraxx]

Like the drawer under the layout .. would make so much sense to plan for that

[@FosScaleModels]

Need more of them!

[@artiekrass7391]

Fantastic work Doug - great showcase of modeling skills and a your kits - love the Brooklyn/Queens location being modeled - gritty.

[@FosScaleModels]

Thanks Artie!

[@harperlarry49]

I would love to spend a day looking through you detail parts drawers. The layout is really looking good. Love the details.

[@FosScaleModels]

Thx for watching Larry.

[@scottna9350]

You NAILED the water color. Color in general is excellent. I see a heap top of amazingly well built models on other sites where the color is a million miles off.

[@FosScaleModels]

Thanks Scott; it's certainly not blue water!

[@heinschonberg2108]

What an impressive layout and precise work in it ! Congratulations ! And it is so nice You started to intensify the video-work beside the kit-developing and shop. Thank You for that !

[@FosScaleModels]

Thank you and thx for watching!

[@Zavijava1]

looks great Doug!love the urban setting and the waterfront in that context ...these are is the areas railroads always ran through...the gritty backside of cities, great tip see your progress and how things are progressing !

[@FosScaleModels]

ThankS!

[@timherrmann8889]

Excellent video Doug. Your low-tide waterfront modeling is peerless! And hats off to your ambitious modeling of the Pepsi building. Can’t wait to see the finished model.

[@FosScaleModels]

Thanks Tim, feeling motivated to do the sign next.

[@strobson1]

water looks great

[@alpugliesetrains9753]

Doug, so glad to see your building a layout and as expected it is incredible! The Pepsi building is not only spectacular but would make a great flat kit! Looking forward to seeing its progress and any other videos you do.

[@FosScaleModels]

Thanks Al.

[@randysrockandrollrailroad8207]

Very cool

[@vincenthuying98]

Dear Doug, as said before, very interesting and cool layout. Love the different retaining wall sections, the entrance waterway to the Dutch Kills. The debris of the low tide scene. The Pepsi building, even though a simple construction, very effective and convincing scenic element on the layout. Also, one of the actual photos you showed of this building contains some awesome backdrop footage, which in my humble view will only add to the illusion of depth. Very much like the development of the left hand side of the Pepsi location. Adding space to that triangle plot will definitely make a difference. Curious for your next episodes, whether tutorials, new kits, or layout progress. Cheerio

[@FosScaleModels]

Thx Vincent; so much to do on the layout but I think getting the Pepsi builing/area done sooner will really set more of the tone of the whole layout.

[@richardlangellotti6208]

I have a scratchbuilt meat processing plant on my layout that looks sorta like your PepsiCo building. Mine is four floors, 52 inches long (350 scale feet), with the main line running through it. It's almost ready for pictures. It's made from 1/8" Masonite. It's huge, next to the Walthers Jimmy Hoffa cement plant. Speaking of which, no Brooklyn or Queens low tide scene is complete without some wise guys sleeping with the fishes. 😅

[@jvanamb]

Masterful job Dave. One suggestion and one question! The suggestion is IF you decide to wrap the fuel tank around the piller, which I think is a terrific idea, why not repaint that ugly green with a sky blue to match the backdrop? You could repaint from the tank up to the underside of the level above. Or repaint from just above eye level to the top level bench work. Leaving the visible pole green as a safety measure. Now my question. Having lived in that neighborhood when the Pepsi plant was going ful tilt, now upper Westside of Manhattan, where do you live, not your address or even Zip Code, just your town? You know an quite a bit more about my digs than I do! Jim in N.Y.

[@FosScaleModels]

Hi Jim - I'm in Connecticut - yes, great idea for the pillar. Should probably just wrap it in same photo cloud backdrop.

[@randydobson1863]

hello fos scale moles moldels-mode its is randy and i like your is cool and super cool thanks friends randy

[@FosScaleModels]

Thanks for watching Randy!

[@kba3039]

Dang Doug I want to work there with ya!

[@FosScaleModels]

Thx for watching!

[@shed66215]

Have just watched this and Part 1, nice layout you have there. Have seen some of your kits being modelled on Jason Jensen's amazing layout, so it's nice to see some them used in a different context and surrounding. My interest lies with n scale but have taken note of the various skills of what he, and now you, have used in applying different washes, paints and colours to make unique scenes even when it's the same kit.

[@FosScaleModels]

Thx Chris, most of these techniques work in multiple scales.

[@robertblack3452]

This layout is looking really good Doug. I'm a huge Pepsi guy, the sign on the Pepsi building you are doing. If you laser cut that out for your building, are you also going to offer it on your website? I'm in O scale. but I think it will look great on top of my backdrop structure. I'm going to put a bunch of DPM walls together to build the huge structure. I for one will buy 2 or even 4 of those signs if you decided to make them. I'm sure if it was O scale it would be even better, then I would want one O scale and 3 HO versions.

[@FosScaleModels]

Thanks Rob, I will be lasercutting it, but won't be offering it for sale. I'm sure Pepsi would agree.

[@JRossHunter]

Did you ever post a follow up to "Pouring Resin Water for Your Model Railroad"? I missed it if you did.