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This is a model of the station in Phillips, Maine that once served on the two-foot narrow-gauge Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad. I built the model in 2014 from a kit by Banta Modelworks. The station still stands today on Depot Street in Phillips, although the railroad has been gone since the 1930s.

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coach joe posted:

Mel was the Danbury Station built in 1903 or is that when it was placed on the National Historic Register?

Joe,

Built by the New Haven Railroad in 1903 and entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The Danbury Railway Museum would be worth a day-trip from Long Island. Now that you have that nice station model, the layout is a must.

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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.

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Alan B, This whole panorama has a very nice look to it, in my opinion.58D8D936-651D-454D-B0FC-DAB09BE72F17 Yes, sir, there is something really nice about this neighborhood, almost as though it were the modeling of a community that actually developed this way in real-life city-planning. It seems carefully and thoughtfully constructed,  possessed of charm and nostalgia, resulting in success.

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JamesRx posted:

Lee that is just spectacular!

Thanks, James! The depot is a Grant Line plastic kit, and I put an interior in there long before I even pondered how to light the thing. That's a calendar on the interior wall for the summer o 1943, and a Vargas girl form the same month tacked underneath it. That said, it's likely inaccurate as southern women never would set foot in a structure with something like that tacked to a wall. That kind of thing wasn't nearly out in the open then, than it is now (which is why the 'nose art' on WW2 planes came as such a shock stateside when photos of them started making it across the pond. There were even hearings in the subject).

sawdust43 posted:

here's the last passenger station i built...lionel inspired...but downsized for marx tinplate...mostly cardboard and paper...hardware cloth window mullions...approximately 19" wide...only commercial parts are the old platform lamps...

howard...

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Hi Howard'

What is [hardware cloth window] ?  Looks like real tin plate'.. Very Nice job!

 

sawdust43 posted:

ATTENTION: QUARTER GAUGER 48...

hope the photos and notes answer your questions about the windows...if not...let me know...

Howard...

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Howard:

Thanks for the follow-up post explaining materials. For further clarification, from where does one purchase 1/4" grid hardware cloth? Also, I am still unclear as to what are craft store, plastic canvas oven doors? Your golf Tee lamps with pearl globes are a stroke of genius. But there is more hardware of some kind holding the golf tees to the wall. What did you use for the lamp mounts? What is the grid work above the doors?

This is superb modeling! Bravo!

Howard:

I am sorry. After my last post with all of the detail questions, I now realize that you photo says "Plastic canvas OVER doors", not oven doors. So, do I go into a craft store and ask, "Where is your plastic canvas?" Give me a clue as to in what section of the store I would find plastic canvas. What is its common use before creative genius' like got hold of it?

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