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@Carey TeaRose - WOW 12 cu ft of plaster !  What a mountain, looks great by the way.  One thing I noticed in your post of what you called the SG Upstairs layout, just across the tracks from Charlton Heston's Jeep is a small brick lithographed building.  I believe I have the same building and its a "Parkville" Station by Chien. I have always dated it to the 1930's but honestly don't know.  Perhaps you have some additional information on it.  Also I will post below, Chien made another version of the same building but with much more elaborate lithography.

Here is the little station that I think I saw on your layout.

Chein brick station front

Here are views of the front, rear, and side of the more elaborate lithographed version of the same building also by Chien. Note that this station says "Toytown" vice "Parkville" and it does not have the windows in the rear punched out in order to provide more area for lithographing.   I have little to no information on these items and if you have more information that you are willing to share I would most certainly appreciate it.  

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Well Carey, its rare that I think there is anything I have that could add to your fabulous layouts but maybe this little building is something you might seek out.  Nevertheless, your layouts are wonderful and thank you for posting.

Best Wishes

Don

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@Carey TeaRose - WOW 12 cu ft of plaster !  What a mountain, looks great by the way.  One thing I noticed in your post of what you called the SG Upstairs layout, just across the tracks from Charlton Heston's Jeep is a small brick lithographed building.  I believe I have the same building and its a "Parkville" Station by Chien. I have always dated it to the 1930's but honestly don't know.  Perhaps you have some additional information on it.  Also I will post below, Chien made another version of the same building but with much more elaborate lithography.

Here is the little station that I think I saw on your layout.

Chein brick station front

Here are views of the front, rear, and side of the more elaborate lithographed version of the same building also by Chien. Note that this station says "Toytown" vice "Parkville" and it does not have the windows in the rear punched out in order to provide more area for lithographing.   I have little to no information on these items and if you have more information that you are willing to share I would most certainly appreciate it.  

Chein toy town station frontChein toy town station rearChein toy town station rt side

Well Carey, its rare that I think there is anything I have that could add to your fabulous layouts but maybe this little building is something you might seek out.  Nevertheless, your layouts are wonderful and thank you for posting.

Best Wishes

Don

I love this! I frankly cannot remember about it, I may have found it on a “Chein” search in vintage toys on eBay. Since I have a Chein cathedral and Ferris wheel on the Main Floor Layout. Will do a bit of looking, as it could work in a small space on the new Basement Layout.

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Carey, good seeing you back and I love your layouts and how you put them into a period setting, quite impressive!

Not much from me this week. I picked up a small guards shack which I believe to be by Issmayer of Nuremberg, Germany. No marks but it looks like others I have seen. It will make a nice edition to my future layout. Any additional information would be appreciated.

Miketg

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@Miketg - Mike I have 2 reference books, one on Ismayer Trains alone and one on Ismayer & Bub trains.  I looked for your crossing guards shack / signal and could not find an exact match in either.  However the semaphore signal with the vertical slots appears quite often in Ismayer accesories and the shack is referenced in both the Ismayer and Bub pictures and the comment was made by both authors that the shack was included on a number of products.  Not much help I suppose but that is what if found.

Today I have something that is really not all that old, compared with many of the trains we see here on this thread.  However I found it very pleasing and quite robust in construction.  It is the Skyline station, offered I believe from 1954-1960.  Skyline as I am sure all know made quite a number of different buildings and RR accessories and  I had what I believe to be another, more rural looking station on my Christmas layout from 1947.  So here is the Skyline "Middletown" suburban station:  The station is all lithographed tinplate, no plastic on it at all.

Front including ticket window and freight / baggage area with sliding door

Skyline Station front

Rear with passenger exit to tracks and freight/baggage out sliding door.

Skyline Station rear view

The end view (both ends are the same) showing the "Middletown" name

Skyline Station end view

Best wishes for a great week to come

Don

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@Miketg posted:

Carey, good seeing you back and I love your layouts and how you put them into a period setting, quite impressive!

Not much from me this week. I picked up a small guards shack which I believe to be by Issmayer of Nuremberg, Germany. No marks but it looks like others I have seen. It will make a nice edition to my future layout. Any additional information would be appreciated.

Miketg

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Hello Mike,

Nice little thing, it is a French model from JEP and before Jouet de Paris. It has been made during a long time and was very successfull.

All my best wishes, Daniel

The upper platform as it should be without the TRAINORAMA, as it’s overkill for Standard Gauge. The Pride Lines Passenger Shed really adds to this section of the Basement Layout.  
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I was kind of digging the TRAINORAMA . I love the look of that art work.  But then again, painting your own backdrop should be cool as well.  I had painted my own on some melamine I got from a job site and it turned out just as I had envisioned.  

Here is a video and a few photos of my backdrop . I once had a 4x12 standard gauge layout in my shop . It has been dismantled for about 4 years now and I kept a simple 4x6 to test out engines , cars and scenery. As you can see the 4x6 has been almost dismantled.  Anyway , you can see what I had painted .  I hope these inspire fellow layout builders to do the same or something similar. 0554B902-3773-44AD-AA1D-E15B33C828D809A6B3EA-16A4-46AB-8AF3-03634825CED2E9DE0E8C-F40D-4ECB-9A26-DEE0C2DB5FC92040AFC2-B17F-4A3F-BC15-D5498CEF5AD9F379D296-37D4-4C1C-AA20-F7D295B2A946

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