Notice the buckling of the tape after painting. Hopefully it will be easy to flatten when it's dry.
Same me, different spelling!
Oh wow, I love the way that's coming together!
I've been wanting to make detailed near scale structures from scratch for years. The Christmas layouts were fun while the Thai layout was a tribute piece, and of course Disneyland was totally unique. But down in the basement I wanted to finish a Cleveland oriented layout. It would have been pretty cool with the point of view being geared towards a seated person and they would be looking up at big bridges as though they were on a ship on the Cuyahoga River.
Right now I'm mostly interested in just focusing on a single location. I've discovered over the years that the photos I've seen of small junctions and interchanges in more bucolic settings speak to me about railroading just as much if not more than big yards and terminals. So, a quiet junction somewhere along the main line is what I decided will be the theme of the new layout.
Gutter or ice dam?
I don't see any signs of downspouts in the prototype photo so I'm guessing this depot only had this device to stop snow and ice from avalanching on the passengers. But it seems also to have characteristics of an eaves trough, namely an end cap.
Any thoughts on how to model this thing?
Maybe a metal ice dam/snow stop - kind of like an upside down rain gutter. The shape of it looks like rain runofffrom the roof would flow over it but it would discourage snow from sliding off? The ends are capped to exclude birds and other critters?
Do you have a location for the station in your picture?
Latty, Paulding county, Ohio. Definitely an area that sees plenty of snow and ice.
I concur with 8ntruck it's got to be a block to keep snow and ice from sliding off the roof.
If it was short and over a doorway I'd say it was a rain diverter, I've seen new houses like built like that instead of gutters.
I did some Googling and turned up a couple pictures of that depot th a showed that feature both on the track side and street side. It appeared to run the length of the building stopping maybe 3 feet from each edge of the roof.
One was picture was dated 1950.
Besides the photo I linked in my first post, I've seen this one that's a bit on the dark side:
https://imagesandarchives.com/products/old-large-historic-photo-latty-ohio-the-railroad-station-depot-c1950
And this one that's also a bit dark in the Arcadia Publishing book "Railroad Depots of Northwest Ohio" by Mark J. Camp.
It almost looks like a section of rail flange in the one with the boy with his head cocked to one side.
I'll probably make it as a "T" shaped strip of cardstock with end caps added and paint it the same shade as the roof.
Hope this is continuing to go well for you. There are those following who enjoy this hobby.
Well wishes to all members of the forum.
Thanks! I for one am not going anywhere!
I ended up having to carefully peel back my masking tape roofing so I could spread Elmer's ProBond to supplement the weak adhesive on the tape. Then, since I got glue on the top surface, I went ahead and installed the ridge vent and repainted the roof.
Yesterday I finished making the windows and now I'm making the trim for the ends of the roof.
Oh wow, some "carpenter's gothic!" Nice!
Nice details. Truly a depot like no other I've seen.
Thanks guys!
Got the wood for the platform cut and glued to the poster board backing today. I'm going to stain the wood with diluted acrylic paint before I permanently attach the depot. Before that can happen I have to make the braces that go along the overhang of the roof and install the finishing trim to the wainscoting. Installing lighting, stuff I probably haven't thought about yet and chimneys can come later. I also want a train order semaphore permanently installed but it will be of the non operating variety.
Wow, that depot's coming out so well it's making me homesick for NJ! More than one old depot survives up there that looks so much like your scratchbuilt!
And you know, that coaling tower on your layout has a VERY strong resemblence to a C&O tower that was still around in CSX's Fulton Yard here in Richmond in the 1990s. And then one day it was gone without a trace. Sad.
I've been busy trying to help my neighbor with her extra credit science experiments so I haven't had as much time as I'd like to build structures. She's a special needs kid and if she doesn't get some extra credit she won't graduate on schedule.
So, I decided we'd do something I think I know just enough about to at least be dangerous if not actually able to educate on the subject. Rocket science! . Of the baking soda & vinegar, air & water, stomp on a bottle and the blow through a straw varieties at least. We'll probably also do thrust experiments with balloons and make a home made altitude calculator in our search to calculate just how much baking soda and vinegar would be required to launch her baby doll into orbit
Anyhow, when I'm not trying to figure out how to do that stuff, I've reinvented my layout yet again. I was tired of curves that don't let my passenger sets stretch out so having a straight tangent up front was a priority. I added some curves to a siding today though:
And here's the big one:
And here's a link to some of the reference photos I used of local coaling towers.
https://akronrrclub.wordpress.com/tag/coaling-towers/
Very cool
Got the rails cleaned and tightened up today. I also reassembled my bridges. Up front on the O gauge line you can see an uncoupling section which, hopefully, will let me drop a load of cars and run the locomotive light to the turnout so it can back to the coaling tower. Running to the milk platform would be more complicated since the o is slated to run clockwise. But then that's what switchers are for!
And that's a tentative location for the depot, but I think I like it there.
That's a pretty good location for the depot, trains can always back in to offload passengers, it's been done.
OR, the passenger hauling days are over and the depot is now a yard office. That happened as well.
Can you un "lock" the mystery of what the poster board will represent?
Ehhhh. A canal.?
. The Ohio and Erie Canal to be specific . I figured nothing would be more bucolic than a lazy spot along the old waterway.
pennytrains . The Ohio and Erie Canal to be specific . I figured nothing would be more bucolic than a lazy spot along the old waterway.
Hmmmm, lemme see here...
"I got a mule and her name is Sal, fifteen miles on the Ohioanderie Canal!"
Yeah, that works if you sqeeze the lyrics a bit!
Ya know, I could probably take this to a gallery where they would sell it for a lot of money as "high art in the style of Monet". But to me it's just the muddy water in the canal!
I don't know, to me it looks like a nebula WAAAAY out in the galaxy!
I can see that
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