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Show me some pictures of your enginehouse

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Show me some pictures of your enginehouse
Posted by NevinW on Saturday, December 25, 2010 8:48 PM

I just finished the enginehouse and turntable for my T&T.  I completed the ballasting of the track for the tracks leading into to enginehouse.   Will start on the detailing tomorrow.  Show me some pictures of your completed enginehouse.  I want to see how you handled the detailing.  Especially the junk.  I'll post pictures of my engine service area when it is done.  -  Nevin 

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Posted by IVRW on Sunday, December 26, 2010 10:18 AM

Here is a pretty standard one from the old IVRW:

Nothing special about it, but the one on my current layout is as such:

My point of this photo is that engine facilities might be very humble in terms of servicing engines. If a shortline is short enough or if you are low enough on space, try what I am doing: merely stick a water tower and coal dock at the end of a spur, and use the intervening space to do something else, like in my case: storage, off and on loading of cars, and passenger drop off.

 

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Posted by Oakhurst Railroad Engineer on Sunday, December 26, 2010 12:08 PM

Here is a view of the turntable and engine house:

I have since added more details.  Here is the engine service area on the approach track:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1698615&l=beda444462&id=1067838506

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Posted by jalajoie on Sunday, December 26, 2010 12:30 PM

Here are some pictures.

When still on the workbench.

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On the layout.

 

 

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Posted by selector on Sunday, December 26, 2010 12:37 PM

The fellas at Seneca like to run a clean operation, so there's no junk.  They're safety conscious, and scrap metal provides a few pennies to fuel the stationary plant.

However, this one rusty truck is waiting for the next clean-up day.

 

Otherwise, we try to keep it tidy.

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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Sunday, December 26, 2010 3:02 PM

jalajoie

Here are some pictures.

When still on the workbench.

 

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd297/jalajoie/004.jpg

On the layout.

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd297/jalajoie/P1010614.jpg

 

 

Jalajoie,

Wow! That is beautiful! YesCool  Did you scratch build this or is this an actual kit?  Very impressive.


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Posted by jalajoie on Sunday, December 26, 2010 3:11 PM

Yes it is scratch built not be me however. A friend did it for the club's layout, I wish I could have only half of his talents.

I should have given credit to him in my first post, my bad I was in too much of a hurry.

Jack W.

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Posted by Railphotog on Sunday, December 26, 2010 5:22 PM

 

 

 

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Posted by NevinW on Sunday, December 26, 2010 7:55 PM

Here is what I accomplished this weekend.  Still working on the detailing.  Did all that ballasting and then covered everything in black oil!   -  Nevin 

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Posted by howmus on Sunday, December 26, 2010 9:24 PM

Well....  if you insist.  How about one of those round ones from way back in the 1920's?

This is the roundhouse at Hopewell Junction on the Seneca Lake, Ontario and Western.

and my Favorite!

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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO

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Posted by stebbycentral on Monday, December 27, 2010 9:15 AM

Your wish is my command...

And the interior

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Posted by Geared Steam on Monday, December 27, 2010 9:57 AM

Railphotog

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v409/railfan/EnginehouseInterior29Nov-2.jpg

 

 

One of my favorite pictures Bob, thanks for posting it again. Yes 

 

 

 

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Posted by wm3798 on Monday, December 27, 2010 11:07 AM

Fully scratched from Evergreen sheet and strip stock, home made windows from the Xerox machine, lit with old locomotive light boards...  I've since uprooted and sold it, and will soon replace it with this...

Loosely based on the WM Hagerstown Roundhouse, it has 20 stalls and is based on parts from four Heljan kits.  I'm hoping to have it installed sometime later this year...

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Monday, December 27, 2010 11:35 AM

This is a two-stall engine house from IHC, I believe.  I used cardstock to line the interior walls, and printed a cinderblock pattern on the cardstock with my computer.

This is an Atlas 3-stall roundhouse.  Again, I used cinderblocks-printed-on-cardstock to line the interior walls.  I built some workbenches and tool bins out of wood coffee stirrers, and used scrap plastic sprue from the kit for piping.  The wood plank floor is also coffee stirrers.  I added a few figures and some barrels.

There are a few 1967 Playboy centerfolds over the toolbench on the back wall.  Political correctness didn't exist back then, and many male-only places like car repair shops often featured such artwork.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 10:31 AM

Enola diesel shops of the PRR/Conrail in N scale:

Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.

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Posted by UPTeen23 on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 12:52 PM

My engine facility: A section of plywood with an unopened Walthers 90ft turntable on it!Embarrassed LOL btw, 

jalajoie, That enginehouse is amazing! more pics please

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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:03 AM

jalajoie

Yes it is scratch built not be me however. A friend did it for the club's layout, I wish I could have only half of his talents.

I should have given credit to him in my first post, my bad I was in too much of a hurry.

Jack, do you think your friend would be willing to share his info as to what items he used, techniques, etc. to build that locomotive shop?  It is incredible.  If you or he have more photos of this shop, please consider posting them on this or a new thread.

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Posted by BRVRR on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 6:25 PM

My engine house is one of the few models to migrate from the old 4.6 BRVRR layout. It is a mostly stock IHC kit. The building is lighted and there is a shadow pit inside, but little else. I have an Evan Designs LED lighting group that simulates electric welding to install one of these days.

Its not much but it suits my purpose.

 

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Posted by jmart4173 on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 9:24 PM

Ray, what company's coal tower is that?

 

Joe

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Posted by howmus on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 9:33 PM

Hi Joe,

That is the Walthers Wooden Coal tower kit (plastic).

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-2922

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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO

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Posted by rogertra on Thursday, December 30, 2010 1:35 AM
Only photo I can find at the moment of the Berger Yard, Atwater scratch built enginehouse on my late GER.

Cheers

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Posted by ezielinski on Monday, January 3, 2011 1:42 AM

Here are a few of my engine facility from just about evey angle.  Like someone else already said, a clean railroad is a happy railroad.  No junk strewn around my engine servicing facilities...

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Posted by gandydancer19 on Monday, January 3, 2011 2:49 PM

The new diesel shop building replaced the old roundhouse after it burned down.

Elmer.

The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.

(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.

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