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P8015048P8015050P8015051In the top photo I was trying to fill up wall space.  This takes a lot of windows. I went thru Lionel parts listings and found cheap windows for things like 445 switch towers and bought a couple hundred.  Might have cost me a dime apiece.

The dark brick building, lower right, shows a problem I had with seams using commercial brick paper.

Chimneys are hand carved from pine.

That B&M box car . . . a junker cut in half on the band saw.  Sort of a John Allen stunt.  Did not work in a mirror though.  

John 

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Some time ago, I decided to replace the Lionel #113 station with a prototypical one for my town of Rock Springs.  By chance, on a trip to Tucson, I saw an office building that said to me, "I want to be a train station"  So, after some photos and measurements, I went to work and here is the result.

If you want to see a video including it, go to my UTube account "Atonna" and click on the Martian Mine.  Yes, this station is right on top of the mine.IMG_6831IMG_6829IMG_6833IMG_8160IMG_8171IMG_8324IMG_8329

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I have an American Flyer 772 Checker Board Water Tower on my new train board but none for the old train board.  I had a Marx beacon light tower without a top.  I decided to make a Lionel style 193 Industrial Water Tower to fit on the Marx tower.  I used a mailing tube to make the tank and card board for the sloped roof.  I installed a flashing light on top from a mini Christmas tree light flasher bulb painted with red latex paint and installed a 20 ohm resistor in series to cut the voltage a little to increase the bulb life.  I added a ladder up the side of the tank and plan to make a pump house to set at the tower base in the future.

I chose to label my Industrial Water Tower with the town name of Spencer, N.C.   The location of the water tower will be on my old train board near my mountain as well as close to my turntable and round house.  I picked Spencer, N.C. as the location because it is mountainous and the old Southern Railroad repair facility, Spencer Shops Roundhouse and Turntable are there.  It is now called the North Carolina Transportation Museum with most buildings restored, and now includes many steam locomotives, diesels and old automobiles and planes.  The N.C. Transportation Museum is well worth visiting as well as the General 4-4-0 in Marietta, GA. as we did in 2017.

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@PeterA posted:

Some time ago, I decided to replace the Lionel #113 station with a prototypical one for my town of Rock Springs.  By chance, on a trip to Tucson, I saw an office building that said to me, "I want to be a train station"  So, after some photos and measurements, I went to work and here is the result.

If you want to see a video including it, go to my UTube account "Atonna" and click on the Martian Mine.  Yes, this station is right on top of the mine.IMG_6831IMG_6829IMG_6833IMG_8160IMG_8171IMG_8324IMG_8329

Great work, Peter.  Glad to see you're still doing well and looking forward to the net CMARC meeting and the next show / swap meet.

Tom Taylor

Judy's PE Christmas layout last year and her handmade YARN houses.   Getting some work done now for a second tier.      She finished two ( one very large brick style one ) and is working on a third for 2020.

After seeing that some of you forum members are getting going on your 2020 Christmas layouts.........well I feel guilty just thinking about it 🤔😉.      I gotta get er done.

Thanks for the inspiration people. 🤗

 

 

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I was born and raised in Pittsburgh in the 1950s and 60s and always wanted to build a train platform around the steel industry.  Following are some photos of my J&L steel company platform.  All structures are scratch built except for the construction crane from Menards.  For the buildings I used basswood covered by foamcore board which was then covered with corrugated paper sheets from AC Moore craft store.  I then painted and weathered all the structures.  

The first photo shows, left to right, the J&L blast furnace (dark rust colored), high line where ingredients for the making of iron are brought together and discharged at the base of the blast furnace (gray colored), ore bridge (yellow colored) and the Joe Magarac foundry (gray colored).

The second photo is looking into the Electric Arc Furnace and to the left background is the yellow ore bridge.  I left half the roof and sides off the electric arc furnace building so that people could see inside.  I also cocked the roof of the furnace slightly and installed a welding light inside so that the periodic flashes from the welding light can be seen as it lights up the interior of the building.

The third photo is of the Benjamin Miller Steel Company World Headquarters and is actually all there is left of that company.  The partially enclosed electric arc furnace can be seen to the right and the blast furnace is in the center background.

Finally, the last photo is of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, which I have visited several times.  It has nothing to do with steel mills, but it is located in southwestern PA and so I took artistic license and put it on a second platform which is 3 feet away from the steel mill platform.  The house was built on a diorama which includes the stream that flows under the house and boulders that the house is built on and over.   I then placed the diorama onto the then partially completed platform and luckily it fit the space.

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Judy's PE Christmas layout last year and her handmade YARN houses.   Getting some work done now for a second tier.      She finished two ( one very large brick style one ) and is working on a third for 2020.

After seeing that some of you forum members are getting going on your 2020 Christmas layouts.........well I feel guilty just thinking about it 🤔😉.      I gotta get er done.

Thanks for the inspiration people. 🤗

 

 

Very Nice Judy !!   Never seen anything quite like that. Fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

Ron,

The slag is the colored plastic wrap that surrounds a 6 pack of Lipton iced tea.  It works well because an LED light behind it lights the whole length of the plastic wrap, and is especially dramatic when the room lights are lowered. When I first tried to just use an orange or yellow plastic bag, the light just looked like a smudge from the front.   In addition, the colored plastic wrap has vertical parallel ripples from where it bends around the edges of the bottles so that it has a depth to make it look 3 dimensional when it is being poured out of the slag car or from the blast furnace floor into a hot metal car.

Doug

 

@DRC posted:

I was born and raised in Pittsburgh in the 1950s and 60s and always wanted to build a train platform around the steel industry.  Following are some photos of my J&L steel company platform.  All structures are scratch built except for the construction crane from Menards.  For the buildings I used basswood covered by foamcore board which was then covered with corrugated paper sheets from AC Moore craft store.  I then painted and weathered all the structures.  

The first photo shows, left to right, the J&L blast furnace (dark rust colored), high line where ingredients for the making of iron are brought together and discharged at the base of the blast furnace (gray colored), ore bridge (yellow colored) and the Joe Magarac foundry (gray colored).

The second photo is looking into the Electric Arc Furnace and to the left background is the yellow ore bridge.  I left half the roof and sides off the electric arc furnace building so that people could see inside.  I also cocked the roof of the furnace slightly and installed a welding light inside so that the periodic flashes from the welding light can be seen as it lights up the interior of the building.

The third photo is of the Benjamin Miller Steel Company World Headquarters and is actually all there is left of that company.  The partially enclosed electric arc furnace can be seen to the right and the blast furnace is in the center background.

Finally, the last photo is of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, which I have visited several times.  It has nothing to do with steel mills, but it is located in southwestern PA and so I took artistic license and put it on a second platform which is 3 feet away from the steel mill platform.  The house was built on a diorama which includes the stream that flows under the house and boulders that the house is built on and over.   I then placed the diorama onto the then partially completed platform and luckily it fit the space.

Doug Chiado

 

 

 

 

 

 

Super modeling there Doug.   Brought back some memories of my flatbed days when I would pick up  steel coils.       I love Fallingwater. Never had the pleasure of visiting there; big fan of Frank Lloyd Wright. Got any better  photos of your diorama ?

There's something to be said for the wonders of modeling buildings in the modern age.  Take the CPR station from Glacier, BC.  You can go from Concept,

to building,

to printing,

And finally to painting... minus doors and windows.  Still working on the whole "opening and closing" thing.

Not really a CPR fellow myself but I really liked the look of this station before its decline...

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Los of outstanding work here!

 

Here are a few I have done

Harbor Scene - This is built using black foam core to create the structure, and then "skinned" with plastruct or other siding.

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Old West Town in Amusement park

Similar construction approach black foamcore, this time skinned with wood doll house flooring, very quick, and takes stain. Korber windows and Tichy doors

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Genesee Brewery  "Our One Brewery Makes it Best!"- Kitbash of Ameritown parts

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A mix of Korber, Lionel, Walthers HO, and Walthers - now Atlas O scale buildings

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Kitbash of two Korber Grain Silo kits

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I added an office to go with the grain silo - Foamcore and doll house wood floors for siding.

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My first radio tower - before I designed and built the Korber one, I made this form Brass, way too much soldering.

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This should be a good start.  Most of the model son my layout are a modified version of something, some are straightforward kits, but most and modified with I expect 30% scratch built.

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