A "thriving?" shortline railroad needs a substantial station and headquarters
building at its junction with grand transcontinental lines, to impress investors and shippers, so I picked this kit up in the Strasburg pre-York O scale show and "stole" the tower to add from a New York wine country station. With all the miniscule detail, this structure ranks as my most tedious to build.
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beautiful station!
Is the platform roof cantilevered?
..... I picked this kit up in the Strasburg pre-York O scale show....
What kit is that?
It's beautiful!
Bob
Wow, does that look nice! Great job!
I went to that show (and missed that item). I have decided to start attending more 2-rail O scale shows because they seem to have a more diverse set of structure kits and detail parts.
George
"c.sam", and "mtb".....I had to dig the box out, and found that this was a Micro-Mark
kit #81667 of the still existing Fanwood, N.J. CNJ station. (when buying it I had to remember that gingerbread styling like this was common all over the country in the 1880's, and very common in Colorado Springs, so I could use it far west of N.J.). I also was surprised that Micro-Mark made this kit...and wonder what else they have made in O scale. I'd like to hear about others. This kit included pages and pages of
instructions and drawings...and involved a lot of prepainting of small parts, contrasting window frames, etc. The NY wine country station whose tower I "borrowed" to add, is on the Bath and Hammondsport, I think also is still standing. The photos included with the kit show a tan building with brown roof and trim. My railroad's colors are aspen yellow and spruce green, so that shows up on structures and rolling stock.
As for "cantilevered", had to check out the meaning of that, found it has two meanings, but one of them involves the use of bracket supports, and the porch roof does have bracket supports around it under the overhang.
G3750: I learned quite a few years ago, that not much O scale, in the way of structure kits or parts seem to show up in local shows (tinplate trains and HO/N only) , or even at Wheaton, or at York.
It's disappointing but true. So I began seeking out the O scale shows to get
the parts and kits, but a lot are advertised in OGR and other magazines when new.
However, the shows turn up old kits out of basements...like this one, ones I never
heard of...it's just like hunting for rare trains...they're elusive..
"c.sam", and "mtb".....I had to dig the box out, and found that this was a Micro-Mark
kit #81667 of the still existing Fanwood, N.J. CNJ station.
Interesting & thanks. Never heard of that one either, but then I'm sure that there's a lot that I've not heard of or seen before. Nice find!
A "thriving?" shortline railroad needs a substantial station and headquarters
building at its junction with grand transcontinental lines, to impress investors and shippers, so I picked this kit up in the Strasburg pre-York O scale show and "stole" the tower to add from a New York wine country station. With all the miniscule detail, this structure ranks as my most tedious to build.
Colarado,
Very nice job on the station. I really like the colors.
Alan Graziano
Very nice!! I agree with Alan above, the colors are eye catching and look perfect together. Great build / kit bash...
Alan
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