Sunday Scenic Showcase September 10 2017

Master piece, Joe! monumental!

What would be the size in O scale.........

jpv in France

Hi JPV:

Thank you

The N scale kit measures 16 x 6 x 5-1/2"          40 x 15 x 16.2cm

The HO scale kit measures 19-3/4 x 8-1/4 x 7"                49.3 x 20.6 x 17.5cm

Walthers does not make O scale kits any more. They sold their tooling to Atlas O who has been very slow in releasing kits. I tried a quick Google search for an O scale version thinking maybe someone has an old kit but no luck. Walthers has a lot of beautiful HO / N scale structures that I and a lot of other people on this forum wished were produced in O scale.

Joe

You're welcome Joe!

Is it a model of a real station or inspired by a real one?

Looking carefully at this station, I think it's not too hard to build in O scale: almost only square shapes, you can use windows of brands (Tichy, Grantline), columns can be made in 3D, etc....

Obviously, it would be better to have drawings, dimensions and a lot of photos! 

I already begun modelling a french station which is 2,5 m long, for the moment in abeyance (see my thread "Big Station" one year ago).

jpv in France

JPV:

Is it a model of a real station or inspired by a real one?
It is based on several train stations in the glory days of 40's / 50's passenger railroading.

This one was a BN station in Omaha.

Looking carefully at this station, I think it's not too hard to build in O scale: almost only square shapes, you can use windows of brands (Tichy, Grantline), columns can be made in 3D, etc....
Actually yes it would be fairly easy. Thanks to Alan Graziano's input on another post one can go to a craft store and buy plastic columns that are used on wedding cakes. Only issue may be the skylights.

Obviously, it would be better to have drawings, dimensions and a lot of photos! 

I already begun modelling a french station which is 2,5 m long, for the moment in abeyance (see my thread "Big Station" one year ago).
Will do

Joe

Hi, Joe,

Thanks for the explanations; I had seen the thread where Alan GRAZIANO spoke about the columns; great idea!

The photo of Omaha station is beautiful! just lack the passengers and the trains.............!

My station is not 2,5 m long; just 2 m (mistake!); if I had modelled exactly the real one, the lenght would have been 4,5 m (1/43 scale)!!!

jpv