Some stations had only the freight portion raised and the inside was raised as well
Mt Hope
Notice the raised loading dock on the right Yet the station is level with the tracks
Cotton Hill The station sat below the level of the track
but both the bagage and freight doors were raised as was the inside room and the rear transfere door
baggage was moved from train to station on a cart
TerryinTexas
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Are you building up the foundation or are you building up the ground the freight house sits on?
The ground can be level with the tracks and the foundation or building can be such that the dock height matches the car floor height (within a couple inches.).
If you are having to add that much cork under your depot, the problem amy be that the building DOESN'T have a foundation. Have you considered using styrene or balsa or foam to build up a foundation for the building, not the ground, but an actual foundtion walls, so its at the right height. Raise the building, not the ground.
Dave H.
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Hi, everyone!
I'm modeling the early 40s in HO and I have a freight depot on my layout that I'm trying to correctly position so that the trackside platform height is level with the bottom floor of a boxcar. The mainline track is up on cork roadbed.
Right now I temporarily have N-scale cork sheeting underneath the depot to elevate it up but it's still on the low side. I'll either add more N-scale cork sheeting to shim it up further or replace it with HO-scale cork sheeting. I don't want to get neurotic about the platform height but I would like for it to be close.
My question is this: For those of you who have addressed this on your own layout, did you find it difficult to make the ground surrounding the elevated depot's foundation fit into the terrain and scheme of the rest of your layout, without your depot looking like it's perched on top of a pitcher's mound?
The rear of the freight depot has a sliding door and loading area so that goods can be loaded and unloaded onto/off of trucks. The loading area will empty out onto an asphalt road.
Thanks for the input and help...
Tom
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