Category: ElevateIT!
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The whole Eighth Avenue el from 116th to 155th Street, built from eleven ElevateIT! layouts, to ride from the motorman’s seat in your browser.
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All 36 buildings on the east side of Eighth Avenue, W 142nd to W 148th St, as laser-cut kits in one 3D model, with the el and its trains down the middle of the avenue.
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The first building from my 145th Street layout study assembled as a laser-cut kit: 2692 Eighth Avenue, Harlem, as it stood in 1940, built in 3D from its real cut files, with engraved brick panels and 608 glued-on stone parts. Turn it, explode it, and see it in raw MDF.
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The 145th Street hump station on the Eighth Avenue el, worked up in ElevateIT! as an OO layout viewed from the west: real building heights, a cambered 1902-practice street, views from the front of the board, and an aligned plan and elevation for planning the baseboard joints of a 6.8 metre model.
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Every tool page has been rewritten and re-illustrated, several now have something to try in your browser, and there’s a new video catalogue, About page and contact form.
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A question on the Templot Club forum led to a new Make It Miniature app for modelling New York’s lost elevated railways. This post gives a short history of the els, then covers what ElevateIT! can do today and where it could go next.