Modular houses and streets

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	Two houses.  Built on a footprint I got from Steve Barile who I believe got it from somebody else.  The GPLR challenged ourselves to build a residential neighborhood consisting off houses built on the same footprint, but detailed entirely different. This section is built to be entirely modular, use a minimum of bricks but still get a nice textured look and be easily transported. I think the tree design is especially noteworthy.   Ciick here to view the GPLR album of a train show where we used  a standard similar to this for a 20 foot section of the layout.
	Here is an exploded view of all the components parts.  Each of the house is built on a 16x32 baseplate, which fits on top of a 32x32 baseplate with risers underneath to set the height.
	Here is a detail of how the sidwalks, curb and street all go together. The sidewalks are specifically designed to use a minimum number of gray tiles which seem to be hard to come by in quantity.
	an overall cross section of a relatively narrow street.
	And a wider street.
	And if you want to include trolley tracks inside the street, you might try something like this.

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