Thanks Mark!
The station is real. It was one of the articles in Kalmbach's Railroad Structures you can build (or something like that). It was a reprint from an older Model Railroader mag and was about how a fellow built this station entirely out of styrene in HO. It included HO scale plans. I decided in 2006 to attempt it in O'Scale. Up to that time, I hadn't done any scratch-building, and the idiot that I was selected a very complicated build. Nothing about this building was simple; walls with multiple set backs, a least two different kinds of Victorian gable treatments, three kinds of wall sheathing using novelty siding and shingles for the gables, plus that roof with the hip roof cutoffs at the ends. Oh... and I forgot that chimney.
This building was the Burnside station on the New York, Ontario and Western and was one of several of the same design. Here's a picture I found of another one. It was converted to a restaurant, but now I think it's abandoned.
This station's on a different site with a more severe front to back elevation change. There is a pen and ink drawing of the Burnside station in the MR article. This station's colors aren't correct for the NYO&W, but it clearly shows the painting challenge I face to make the half timbers contrast with the siding. You can also see the horizontal and vertical siding changes in the different sections. I'm probably going to paint it something in the theme of the Pennsylvania & Pacific RR (Tuscon Red and Armour Yellow perhaps).
It's O'Scale and it's big so all hardcopy outputs were done tiled and taped together from multiple sheets. I scaled the HO plans after scanning them into the computer. I set the ruler scale in CorelDraw to 1:48 and then enlarged the drawing until one of the 9 foot dimensions on the drawing corresponded to two guidelines set 9 scale feet apart. I then drew detailed construction plans over the scanned in drawings keeping the scan on a different layer so it would keep moving around every time I clicked on some component.
