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Just found this great topic.  I love railroad stations, real and model or tinplate.  One of the few things I look for other than toy train items at swap meets are old station post cards.  Since we are traveling this week, I only have available what pictures I can access on my iPad.

In the first picture is a model of the Salem, Oregon station built in 1889 on our sectional Capitol Holidays Layout.  My friend and partner in this endeavor, Don Curtis, scratch built this model from pictures I borrowed from Ed Culp, author of the book, “Stations West.”  We set up the layout and run Gilbert American Flyer trains under the Christmas tree in the Oregon State Capitol Rotunda each year.  

The second picture is the waiting room and agent’s end of the old station which was torn down around around the time of the building of the present station which opened in 1918.  Only the freight house portion of the old station was left standing. The freight house and the “new” station are shown in the third picture.

The fourth picture is how the derelict freight house looked for many years under threat of condemnation and demolition, and the last two pictures are the present station and the restored and repurposed freight house as they look today.

Cheers!

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