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What a terrific thread; can't believe I missed it.
My beautiful Texas Santa Fe station will be going into storage. The area where the station was is the location for my new Army RR yard (circa 1040's). I will be replacing the Temple, TX station with another custom built station modeled after an Army base station located at Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis, Missouri. I will have this station on my main line and a smaller freight station in the adjoining yard. My new Army base will be named after my childhood hero........Camp Crockett.
Here is a photo of the Jefferson Barracks station circa 1940's.
Steve, Lady and Tex
I decided to go with a more rustic Army camp station with adobe walls and a center second story wood control tower to blend into my Western Texas desert scenes. My "Camp Crockett" WW11 Army camp is in final stages of construction.
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ATTN: TexSpecial...
Hope you will post pix of your entire WWll layout...if you already have...would you post a link to it?...thanks...
Howard...
I decided to go with a more rustic Army camp station with adobe walls and a center second story wood control tower to blend into my Western Texas desert scenes. My "Camp Crockett" WW11 Army camp is in final stages of construction.
I'm also looking forward to seeing this when it's done.
Well, some very beautiful, nicely detailed scenes!
But don't forget the old-school charm of the Plasticiville Union Station (this is my original from the early 1960s, missing the side platforms that were discarded before modern glues were available -- wish I'd saved them). This photo is many years old now; some minor changes and other details were added, but the look is the same. Not hi-rail!
Take care, Joe.
What a nice thread with these beautiful creations. Thanks for bringing it back up, N5CJohnny.
OK this is getting spooky. First I copy your yard/engine service area. Then I copy your station without knowing it. Crescent Locomotive works did one for me too; brick with green trim.
I'll try to get a few pics of mine tonight...
There are some amazing stations in this thread. Congratulations, especially to those who scratchbuilt stations or integrated them so completely into their scenery.
Here's an old Lionel 121 tinplate station that I finished a couple of weeks ago. It's sort of restored, but in non-original colors. I did the walls in texture paint to simulate stucco or rough brick. My layout consists of a loop of Standard Gauge track around an 0 gauge layout, so any Standard Gauge buildings and accessories must go in the corners. As you can see, the layout is still a work in progress and I need to put in a parking lot, a backdrop, and some other things around the station.
Here's a closer look at it, before I moved it into the corner.
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My model of the Springfield, MO Frisco depot. 1/48th scale. I literally grew up in this station as my dad was head of the dining car dept.
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Here's the station complex at Oblivion at sunset on the Ophir and Oblivion broadloom conspiracy layout from a few years ago.
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Here's the station complex at Oblivion at sunset on the Ophir and Oblivion broadloom conspiracy layout from a few years ago.
From all the submitted station photos I like this most for several reasons...
there is a lot of action, all platforms are populated with figures...
plenty of tinplate structures next to multiple parallel tracks...
real vintage ambient, impressive
Roger, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Great job. Don