Recently I decided that I wanted to change stations. In my railroad the layout is 42 ft. around, that means there is room for only one station, it isn't a comuter railroad. I had been using the "western" style Rio Grande station that was made by New Bright. Now the Rio Grande station is used as a roundhouse building. The new station is a pretty accurate model of the Magic Kingdom's Main Street station, which is a large, elegant Victorian style station. It is also a collector's item that is now discontinued, Disney World sold it in 2003 and that's when I bought it. It was put together and was unused until now. The station itself is HO scale, but I later found out that it can be used perfectly with O scale layouts. I then figured that I could use it with my G scale layout if I had something to elevate it with. So I ventured into the garage and found some wood. I cut the wood into two parts to make it wide enough for the station's width, then I painted the wood a concrete color to match the loading platform, added a circular stairway at the station's main entrance made out of sturdy styrofoam painted concrete color to make it look like real concrete. And this is what resulted:
And this is the old station, now used as a track-side service building in the roundhouse.
Looks great REI. I am Barry and live in N. Okla. as well; about 20 m North of Enid.
Nice looking layout. I will be laying ours this spring outside using aluminum track and hopefully everything will then be powered by RC/ battery.
Here is my email, bcool831@pldi.net ( reference this site in the subject line) I have some pictures to share since I do not know how to post them on here. Barry
Using PHOTOBUCKET is easy just remember to log on to Photobucket after you shrink the internet window then you can switch from one to the other .
this was added to show it works easy.
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