What a collection of great buildings and great talent! It's why it's so fun to continue to post in the OGRR Forum. Here's the scratch-built structures on my railroad. Most are in the Victorian end of the spectrum.
1. Woodbourne Gallery; From my drawings, laser cut and 3D Printed parts, plus lots of other stuff. Based closely on an extant building, the Bronx Documentary Center in Bronx, NYC. Reduced height by one floor and length by about 15 scale feet so it would fit my village.
2. Nighthawks Cafe: Basic building from plans in 1957 Model Railroader Magazine, and then modified to contain Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" masterpiece in the interior. All scratch-built with Plastruct brick paper. Turret turned on lathe.
3. I.W. Berheim Bourbon Distillery: Laser cut from my drawings, plus lots of scratch-building. Based on a single photograph of this Victorian-age factory that resides on the wall of the waiting room of the modern Bernheim facility in Louisville, KY owned by Heaven Hill Brands. The real building was built in 1870 and razed during Prohibition.
4. Woodbourne Substation: scratch-built multi-media project including styrene, soldered brass, turned aluminum plus auto-body fasteners (as insulator sheds). Only kit was the Brennan chain link fence. Transformer is freelanced based on MTH transformer load (didn't use MTH, scratch-build new box). Remainder was from ABB high voltage equipment plans.
5. Woodbourne Station: HO plans appeared in Kalmbach Buildings and Structures book. Constructed from my drawings entirely from styrene. Prototypes still exist on New York, Ontario & Western RR, although not used as train stations any longer.
6. Sinclair Refinery: Plastruct Petro-chemical plant kit with added scratch-built (although the entire kit is actually scratch building) Marley Cooling Tower, Flare Tower with knock out drum, and Ops building. Entire site had to be redesigned from Plastruct layout to fit side. Load out stations were detailed up too.
7. Pennsylvania & Pacific RR Engine House: Freelance design drawn by me with laser cut walls, 3D printed accessories and multi-media overhead gantry crane. Building is 3 track spaced to Ross #4 ladder switches and is 40" L X 15" W X 15"H.
8. P&P RR Machine Shop: Attached to the engine house is a machine shop with a passel of 3D 1:48 machine tools. Some are downloaded drawings from SketchUp Warehouse, others are hand drawn by me (Niles Wheel Lathe, Sterling Radial Drill and Bullard Turret Lathe), but all required substantial editing to make printable.
