Anyone involved with real estate knows residential areas next to industrial buildings tend to house the low end of society. Notice the lumber mill adjacent to the trailer park.
On the “wrong side of the tracks”, the trailer park couldn’t be situated in a less desirable location.
Trailer Park between tracks and Mill
“Bubble’s shed” as this small building has been dubbed, is filled with cats, shopping carts, and what didn’t fit was placed nearby. Definitely a trashy scene in keeping with the theme.
Bubble's shed near tracks
Barbara talked Rob into painting the characters henceforth called “the trailer park boys.” He almost lost it when she insisted that Julian be holding a glass in one hand. At HO scale, these people are TINY!
Trailer Park Boys
April 1st, 2011 at 8:23 am
DECENT!
October 30th, 2011 at 8:05 am
What’s on Barbara’s mind when she decided to put up the railways on the side of the residential area? It’s so unbecoming of an ideal neighborhood. I mean like, I wouldn’t buy a house from there considering I have kids and that they may end up in an accident.
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:49 am
A neighborhood existing on the edge of a train track actually fits very well with what Barbara was trying to achieve in her model. It’s the dregs of society that live in her town. The church is on one end and the trashy, gang-ridden neighborhoods are on the other. Neither you nor I would live there, but there are people who would… and do.