A much reduced and altered model of Southern States Co-Op on the east side of Luray, VA. The logo is of the 1970s period. This is where our HO farmers purchase their feed, fertilizer, and farm equipment. As there is another photo elsewhere on this site that is much like this one, I will be replacing this one shortly with a photo taken of the front of the complex.
St. Marks Luthern Church is located at 201 East Main Street (old US 211) in Luray, VA. The cemetery is across the street along side of Duford Ave. The corner of Bradley Funeral Home, 187 E. Main Street, can be seen on the right edge of the photo.
This view looks east up East Main Street. St. Marks Luthern Church is on the left. This scratch built model structure is made from .060 styrene. A modified Sears House is seen in the distance, a common home in Luray.
This photo shows the entire East Main Street block from the N&W Railroad to Deford Ave. All homes are to scale. Bradley Funeral Home is on the left and what was a shoe repair shop (now Fox Fire Properties) is in the lower right. As of this writing, the last model home (now a Bread and Breakfast) is almost complete and ready to put in its place on the layout.
This is a street level view of three of the homes in Luray (132, 126 and 116 East Main Steet). The homes have been backdated to what they may have looked like in the mid 1950's. Although this street is straight in the prototype, the lack of room cause the model Main Street to be curved to fit it in.
I have been told that this building originally housed an A&P in the mid 1950's. When I photographed the prototype a few years ago, it was Luray Builder's Supply. A new owner has taken over this hardware store.
This ground view of Liberty Lime Quarry represents a few quarries which were located along the N&W Railroad. As we had no photographs, this structure was free-lanced by Greg Smith.
This is typical of the rural scenery on Jim Brewer's N&W Shenandoah Division. This scene is located south of Elkton, VA, on his layout.
One of several stations on Jim's layout, this is a very accurate model of the one that existed in Elkton, VA.
This eleventh photo is of a box car on the Chesapeake Western interchange track at Elkton, VA next to Elkton Feed Supply. Jim Brewer is in the process of only putting the correct 1956 period locomotives and rolling stock on the layout. This process is helped by the excellent models presently available on the market.