What with some tracks laid at angles, looking for some ideas on triangle buildings. Lets see some pics. if you have build any for your layout. Thanks
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A small icing station.
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Joseph:
I am starting one - I have the front and back walls almost complete. You can get an idea on the angle by looking at the width of each.
Fantastic on all of these. To bad no one makes anything commercially. Looks like I need to get started on one.
I have seen buildings like this all over the country, LA, Philly, Atlanta, and Chicago, however they had loading docks on them for rail cars, or they had Doors close to the track. I believe you may have a market for such a stucture.
Josef.....email Al Zamorski of Millhouse River Studios....he used to have a pic of a scratch-built triangular building on his website.
Peter
St. Louis and Indianapolis are interesting places to pull ideas - here grid patterns were initially established but broken due to need for quick roads to the county. St. Louis is the perfect example as much of the city and county are built on a wagon wheel leading to lots of odd corner structures. In the teens, Adolph Busch built a ton of such corner buildings in order to sell his beer to the public - taverns, theaters, and family restaurants - mostly all built on corners. Some of my favorite examples appear on Virginia Ave - the Virginia Theater, etc. However, the whole city is a wealth of ideas spanning colonial, french, German, and war era oddities.
BTS offers the American flag company.
It is a nice structure
It is a nice structure
Not a triangle building, but it has 5 sides. Campbell 66 Trucking Terminal:
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Originally Posted by Jacobpaul81:
St. Louis and Indianapolis are interesting places to pull ideas - here grid patterns were initially established but broken due to need for quick roads to the county. St. Louis is the perfect example as much of the city and county are built on a wagon wheel leading to lots of odd corner structures. In the teens, Adolph Busch built a ton of such corner buildings in order to sell his beer to the public - taverns, theaters, and family restaurants - mostly all built on corners. Some of my favorite examples appear on Virginia Ave - the Virginia Theater, etc. However, the whole city is a wealth of ideas spanning colonial, french, German, and war era oddities.
Don't leave Pittsburgh out. Fantastic smorgasbord of architecture in that city!
George
I don't have one built, but it is in the plans. Interestingly enough, it does not lie between two tracks. It's between two streets.
This is Weirton, WV (my hometown) in the early 1950s. This is the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue (out of camera to the right), Main Street (left), and County Road (Route 2) proceeding up the hill to the right.
Photo courtesy of the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center.
I am modeling this exact intersection and (hopefully) the building will be there as well.
George
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I probably have said this before but I am blown away by the craftsmanship of the people on this forum! I could literally spend a few hours just looking at the things you guys build either scratch or from kits! I enjoy it and I learn so much! Amazing!!
Somewhere in the forum archives should be a photo of a Plasticville triangular RR
station I kitbashed out of the familiar PV station parts, to fit between diverging
tracks. (and then decided not to use)
