Trains.com

Subscriber & Member Login

Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, manage your account online and more!

Deshler Ohio E.R. Lytle Lumber

3157 views
10 replies
1 rating 2 rating 3 rating 4 rating 5 rating
  • Member since
    November 2016
  • 476 posts
Posted by j. c. on Friday, June 1, 2018 9:53 PM

the link is just to give you an idea of the building and its shape, could find no measured drawings of the lumber co you posted.

  • Member since
    December 2015
  • From: Shenandoah Valley
  • 9,094 posts
Posted by BigDaddy on Friday, June 1, 2018 5:23 PM

Your link is a building in Texas and I'm not seeing the Deshler building searching for Deshler or Lyttle Lumber.  How are we supposed to use the link?

Non square buildings, prototypical or not, increases interest in the structure.  Looking at the brick, which I think is different colors, could be recreated by painting and even the diamond are just different colored bricks.

My intent, which may be different than others, is to use what I see, the contrasting brick colors, the diamond brick design, the faded signs (lots of them) for a background building of, as of now, undetermined shape. 

Henry

COB Potomac & Northern

Shenandoah Valley

  • Member since
    November 2016
  • 476 posts
Posted by j. c. on Friday, June 1, 2018 1:17 PM

it appears from the sandborn map that building is not square here is a link that might help you if you want to try scratching it. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/tx0683/ 

  • Member since
    October 2001
  • From: OH
  • 17,574 posts
Posted by BRAKIE on Friday, June 1, 2018 8:23 AM

A beautiful building that illustrates a back ground building along the backdrop.

Larry

Conductor.

Summerset Ry.


"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt  Safety First!"

  • Member since
    December 2015
  • From: Shenandoah Valley
  • 9,094 posts
Posted by BigDaddy on Friday, June 1, 2018 7:04 AM

Google gets credit for the pictures

You can "walk" around 2 sides of the building. Maybe not everyone knows.

On google maps there is a yellow man at the bottom right on the satellite view.  When you drag him to the map, some streets will show a blue line.  You can drag him or her, to the blue line to get the street view.  You can then click a little further down the street to change the view.

The top to the building has a sign

unreadable Lumber.  No doubt it is what Ed suggested. 

Henry

COB Potomac & Northern

Shenandoah Valley

  • Member since
    August 2003
  • From: Collinwood, Ohio, USA
  • 16,367 posts
Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, May 31, 2018 10:32 PM

mbinsewi

Ed, it looks like I have to use an Ohio library card to log in.

Mike

 

Drat!

Sorry about that! I'll do a little copy/paste to try to fix the situation.

Ed

  • Member since
    May 2010
  • From: SE. WI.
  • 8,253 posts
Posted by mbinsewi on Thursday, May 31, 2018 10:24 PM

Ed, it looks like I have to use an Ohio library card to log in.

Mike

  • Member since
    March 2017
  • 8,173 posts
Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, May 31, 2018 10:20 PM

Henry nice photography.

I like buildings like this when the picture is taken well. You can't see either end of the building.  It looks like a piece of paper standing up.

I appreciate that one...Thumbs Up TF Wink

P.S. That building on the left is no barn burner either..... like it

  • Member since
    August 2003
  • From: Collinwood, Ohio, USA
  • 16,367 posts
Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, May 31, 2018 10:05 PM

This looks like the structure shown on this 1932 Sanborn Map (left, E.R. Lytle Lumber Co.):

 Lytle_Lumber_1932 by Edmund, on Flickr

Amazing that the structures still stand, and in relatively good shape, especially the wood lumber shed.

And the nearby B&O/C&O (CH&D) railroad crossing:

 Deshler_1932_BandO by Edmund, on Flickr

Neat stuff, indeed! Ed

  • Member since
    March 2018
  • 688 posts
Posted by BNSF UP and others modeler on Thursday, May 31, 2018 7:19 PM

I like it! Wouldn't be too big, but I'm no scratchbuilder either. Maybe I could modify the brick firehous kit I built?Whistling

I'm beginning to realize that Windows 10 and sound decoders have a lot in common. There are so many things you have to change in order to get them to work the way you want.

  • Member since
    December 2015
  • From: Shenandoah Valley
  • 9,094 posts
Deshler Ohio E.R. Lytle Lumber
Posted by BigDaddy on Thursday, May 31, 2018 5:11 PM

Looking at one of the webcams via google maps, I found this cool old lumber building.  The ornate brickwork, on an otherwise rectangular building is over my skill set, but I could do the various signs on the building.

If you go down the tracks and turn right, there is a warehouse next to this building that is kind of cool too.

Just throwing out some ideas for you kitbashers.

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2060296,-83.8999824,3a,75y,109.99h,104.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9CPAk_EGWd75YWAGUBrE_w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Henry

COB Potomac & Northern

Shenandoah Valley

Subscriber & Member Login

Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, manage your account online and more!

Users Online

Search the Community

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Model Railroader Newsletter See all
Sign up for our FREE e-newsletter and get model railroad news in your inbox!