Walthers Cornerstone HO Scale Brick Street System Straight Sections with Accessories - 933-3156

Walthers Cornerstone HO Scale Brick Street System Straight Sections with Accessories 933-3156 makes it easy to expand realistic brick-paved roads, downtown streets, and historic industrial roadways on HO scale model railroad layouts. Part of the Walthers Cornerstone Street System, this plastic scenery kit provides matching straight roadway sections and accessories for creating detailed city streets that complement surrounding railroad structures, businesses, and neighborhoods.

The kit provides approximately 17-5/8 inches (44.7 cm) of straight roadway, along with sidewalks, curbs, sewer grates, storm drains, manhole covers, fire hydrants, and driveway and alley entrances. The brick-cobblestone surface is especially suitable for older downtown districts, commercial streets, industrial neighborhoods, and railroad-side communities.

Designed for use with the Walthers Cornerstone HO Scale Brick Street System Complete Set 933-3139, sold separately, these expansion sections help extend existing roads without requiring modelers to construct every brick surface individually. The modular plastic components fit together in a manner similar to sectional model railroad track, allowing additional streets to be planned and assembled as the layout develops.

Explore HO Scale Walthers Cornerstone structures and the complete Walthers Cornerstone collection for additional buildings, scenery accessories, and model railroad infrastructure.

Build Realistic HO Scale Brick Streets

Brick-paved streets are distinctive features of many historic North American communities. Before modern asphalt pavement became widespread, brick and other masonry paving materials were commonly used for downtown roads, commercial districts, and industrial streets.

The Walthers Cornerstone Brick Street System allows modelers to recreate this appearance using detailed molded roadway sections.

For a steam-era railroad, brick streets can help establish the appearance of a busy town with older storefronts, freight houses, and industrial businesses.

For a transition-era layout, they can represent established city streets that remain in service as automobiles, trucks, and diesel locomotives become more common.

For a modern railroad, brick pavement can represent preserved historic districts, older industrial neighborhoods, or streets that have retained their original paving.

The roadway sections can be positioned alongside commercial buildings, railroad facilities, warehouses, and residential neighborhoods to create a more complete town scene.

Browse Walthers Cornerstone commercial and city buildings for structures that can complement a brick-paved downtown district.

Brick Street System Straight Sections Kit Features

The Walthers Cornerstone HO Scale Brick Street System Straight Sections with Accessories includes the following manufacturer-listed features:

• 17-5/8 inches (44.7 cm) of straight roadway: Extends a brick-paved street system through additional areas of the layout.
• Realistic brick-cobblestone pavement: Recreates the appearance of traditional masonry street surfaces.
• Sidewalks and curbs: Help establish a finished streetscape beside buildings and businesses.
• Sewer grates and storm drains: Add recognizable municipal infrastructure details.
• Manhole covers: Provide additional surface details for urban roadways.
• Fire hydrants: Add realistic roadside accessories to the finished street.
• Driveway entrance: Creates access from the roadway to a building or property.
• Alley entrance: Provides a transition into a service alley or rear access road.
• Modular plastic construction: Allows matching roadway sections to be joined together.
• Paintable and weatherable surfaces: Can be customized for different eras and urban settings.

Total straight roadway length: Approximately 17-5/8 inches (44.7 cm).

Scale: HO Scale, 1:87.

Road surface: Brick-cobblestone.

Product type: Plastic street system expansion kit with accessories.

Manufacturer item number: 933-3156.

Package description: Straight Sections with Accessories, package of 10. Walthers' detailed product information describes eight straight roadway sections within the assortment.

Expand the Walthers Cornerstone Brick Street System

These straight sections are designed to work with the Walthers Cornerstone Brick Street System Complete Set 933-3139, sold separately.

The complete set provides a starting point for a brick-paved roadway network, including straight road sections, an intersection, and additional street details.

Kit 933-3156 allows modelers to extend that roadway into neighboring blocks, commercial areas, or industrial districts.

For a small town, the added sections can lengthen a main street beyond the original intersection.

For a larger city, multiple expansion kits can be used to create longer straight roads connecting different neighborhoods.

For an industrial district, the roadway can connect warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and freight-handling locations.

The modular construction makes it easier to plan consistent road alignment and pavement appearance throughout the modeled area.

Walthers also offers concrete and asphalt versions of its HO Scale Street System, allowing modelers to represent communities with different pavement materials.

Create a Historic Downtown Business District

Brick streets are especially effective in downtown commercial scenes containing older storefronts, restaurants, hotels, offices, and municipal buildings.

The Brick Street System Straight Sections can provide the roadway in front of these structures while the included sidewalks and curbs help establish a recognizable streetscape.

For a small railroad town, the brick roadway can become the main street connecting a station area with the business district.

For a larger city, it can represent an older commercial street that developed before widespread asphalt paving.

Additional separately purchased automobiles, delivery trucks, streetlights, signs, and figures can help complete the setting.

Buildings such as Walthers Cornerstone Merchant's Row structures, brick offices, post offices, and neighborhood stores can be positioned alongside the roadway.

The included manhole covers, drains, and fire hydrants add small but important details that help the scene appear like a functioning city street.

Explore Walthers Cornerstone stations and depots for additional structures that can connect a downtown street scene with the railroad.

Build Brick-Paved Industrial Roads and Warehouse Districts

Brick pavement is also suitable for older industrial neighborhoods, particularly where manufacturing buildings and warehouses were constructed alongside established city streets.

The straight roadway sections can create access roads between factories, warehouses, and other industrial facilities.

For a warehouse district, the driveway entrance can provide a transition between the street and a loading area.

For a manufacturing complex, the alley entrance can represent a narrow service road leading between industrial buildings.

For a railroad-served industry, the street can run alongside a freight siding, helping establish the relationship between railroad operations and local truck traffic.

Separately purchased industrial vehicles, loading equipment, fences, and workers can add activity to the scene.

For a transition-era layout, a weathered brick road can suggest an older industrial district that has continued operating for decades.

Browse Walthers Cornerstone factories and warehouses for additional buildings that can complement an industrial street scene.

Add Sidewalks, Curbs, and Municipal Street Details

A convincing city street includes more than the roadway surface. Sidewalks, curbs, drainage features, and other municipal details help establish the appearance of a complete streetscape.

Kit 933-3156 includes matching sidewalks and curbs that can be positioned alongside the brick road sections.

The sewer grates and storm drains provide details commonly associated with urban drainage systems.

Manhole covers add recognizable surface features that can be highlighted through painting and weathering.

The included fire hydrants provide additional roadside detail, particularly when positioned near commercial buildings and street corners.

The driveway and alley entrances help create transitions between the public roadway and adjacent properties.

For a downtown scene, these accessories can be combined with separately purchased streetlights, signs, vehicles, and pedestrians.

For an industrial scene, they can complement loading areas, warehouse entrances, and narrow service roads.

Explore Walthers Cornerstone accessories and details for additional scenery components that can help finish the streetscape.

Use Brick Streets with Embedded Railroad Track

Historic industrial districts often featured railroad tracks laid directly into public streets, allowing freight cars to reach businesses where there was limited space for a separate railroad right-of-way.

For modelers recreating this type of operation, Walthers offers the HO Scale Street Track Insert Set 933-3140, sold separately.

That companion product is designed to work with the Cornerstone Street System and compatible Code 83 track, helping modelers represent rails embedded in street pavement.

Combined with a brick-paved street scene, an embedded-track arrangement can create the appearance of an industrial railroad operating through an older downtown or warehouse district.

Freight cars can be moved along a street-running track to serve nearby warehouses and manufacturing businesses.

For a compact switching layout, street running can provide an interesting visual alternative to conventional industrial sidings.

Important: Brick Street System kit 933-3156 does not itself include railroad track or the Street Track Insert Set. Any embedded-track installation requires separately purchased compatible components and careful track planning.

Paint and Weather Brick Road Surfaces

The Walthers Cornerstone Brick Street System is molded in an appropriate base color, but additional painting and weathering can help create a more realistic appearance.

Brick streets rarely display a perfectly uniform color. Subtle variations in red, brown, gray, and other suitable tones can help represent individual bricks and areas of wear.

For a historic downtown street, lighter weathering can suggest a well-maintained municipal roadway.

For an industrial district, darker weathering can represent accumulated dirt, vehicle traffic, and years of use.

Sidewalks and curbs can be finished in contrasting concrete colors to separate them visually from the brick roadway.

Manhole covers and drainage grates can be painted in metallic or weathered iron tones.

Fire hydrants can be finished in colors appropriate to the modeled municipality.

For an older neighborhood, small variations in surface color can suggest repairs and differences in pavement age without changing the molded brick texture.

Plan and Assemble the Street System

Before permanently installing the roadway sections, plan the street alignment and determine how the road will connect to existing intersections, buildings, and other scenery.

Test-fit the straight sections to confirm the desired overall length and position.

Arrange the sidewalks and curbs so they align naturally with the surrounding buildings and property entrances.

Determine where the driveway and alley entrances will provide access to adjacent properties.

Once the layout is planned, join the plastic roadway sections according to the manufacturer's instructions.

Walthers describes the Street System as installing in a manner similar to sectional track, with matching pieces glued together to create the roadway.

Painting and weathering can be completed before or after installation, depending on the desired finish and surrounding scenery.

When placing streets near railroad tracks, maintain appropriate clearance for locomotives and rolling stock.

For a larger street network, additional compatible expansion kits can be used to extend the roadway into neighboring blocks.

Supplies for HO Scale Brick Street Projects

Modelers assembling and finishing the Brick Street System can browse model railroad paint for customizing the brick pavement, sidewalks, curbs, drainage features, and fire hydrants. Painting and weathering can help establish whether the street represents a well-maintained downtown roadway or an older industrial road.

For assembly, explore model building glue and adhesives at Fusion Scale Hobbies. Select adhesives compatible with the plastic roadway sections and follow the manufacturer's assembly instructions.

Important: This product is an unassembled HO scale plastic roadway expansion kit. It provides approximately 17-5/8 inches (44.7 cm) of straight brick-paved roadway, plus sidewalks, curbs, sewer grates, storm drains, manhole covers, fire hydrants, one driveway entrance, and one alley entrance. The product is labeled as a package of 10, while Walthers' detailed description specifies eight straight roadway sections. The Brick Street System Complete Set, railroad track, Street Track Insert Set, buildings, vehicles, figures, and additional scenery are sold separately.

The Walthers Cornerstone HO Scale Brick Street System Straight Sections with Accessories 933-3156 provides a practical way to extend realistic brick-paved streets through downtown business districts, historic neighborhoods, railroad-side industrial areas, and detailed urban scenes. With modular roadway sections and matching street accessories, the kit helps create a more complete and convincing HO scale model railroad environment.