Photo Chain Game

@Sitka posted:

Following bobfett, Station platform

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Great shot Mark

@WwWebFlyer posted:

Following sitka, Station platform

Nice shot Roger. That’s a beautiful station; was it a kit or scratch built?

Following Roger’s station photo

Pennsylvania station

@pennsyfan posted:

Nice shot Roger. That’s a beautiful station; was it a kit or scratch built?

The station was scratch built.

It was based on two stations out west.

following pennsyfan's glorious Penn Station, here is a much more humble station.  The "Small Town" station on my layout.

Best Wishes

Don

@pennsyfan posted:

Great shot Mark

Had to fix the picture don't know why that happens, But thanks Bob

Station:

Station:  The Magic Kingdom station.

Nice station Boomer

Following Boomer here is an unobtrusive rural station for @Don McErlean.

Noma station.

@pennsyfan posted:

Nice station Boomer

Following Boomer here is an unobtrusive rural station for @Don McErlean.

Is that station for Girard, Ohio just not west of Youngstown?

Ron

@PRRronbh posted:

Is that station for Girard, Ohio just not west of Youngstown?

Ron

Ron,

I do not know, it could be. That is the name that Marx put on the station.

@pennsyfan and @PRRronbh -  No fellas, Girard is in Pennsylvania.  The Girard Model Works was the name of the firm producing "Joy Line" trains of which Louis Marx was their sales agent.  Marx purchased the plant and all the assets of the firm when the owners of the Model Works declared bankruptcy in 1935.  He named the plant " The Girard Manufacturing Company" to avoid confusion with his existing plants in Erie, Pa.  Marx, throughout the entire existence of the Marx Toy Company ran everything from his office in New York.  It is said he rarely visited the plants but would call folks to New York to discuss important items or make decisions.  Hence it is Girard, Pa that the station is named after.  However that does not take away from that great station that you posted...thanks Bob. 

So not a passenger station but a freight station.  This is Marx and just about the largest structure on my layout.  Its all lithographed tin and dates from  the 1950's

All the best!

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@pennsyfan and @PRRronbh -  No fellas, Girard is in Pennsylvania.  The Girard Model Works was the name of the firm producing "Joy Line" trains of which Louis Marx was their sales agent.  Marx purchased the plant and all the assets of the firm when the owners of the Model Works declared bankruptcy in 1935.  He named the plant " The Girard Manufacturing Company" to avoid confusion with his existing plants in Erie, Pa.  Marx, throughout the entire existence of the Marx Toy Company ran everything from his office in New York.  It is said he rarely visited the plants but would call folks to New York to discuss important items or make decisions.  Hence it is Girard, Pa that the station is named after.  However that does not take away from that great station that you posted...thanks Bob.

So not a passenger station but a freight station.  This is Marx and just about the largest structure on my layout.  Its all lithographed tin and dates from  the 1950's

All the best!

Don

Thanks for the write up Don; I had no idea where the name came from. As to your freight station; thanks for the memories I had one; but think it disappeared before my Dad started  the train layout.

Following Don McErlean, Box truck

Following Sitka’s box truck

Beer truck

from pennsyfan...tall 3 story brown building and Starbucks box truck...

Best Wishes

Don

following Don McErlean switch tower.

Following WwWebFlyer, switch tower

Following Sitka’s man on box car

Brakeman riding the hopper into the siding