HO Scale Gas Station

[ALEX WARSHAL]

I am looking for a cheap, but good looking gas station for a early 1950s themed layout. Something that kinda looks like this. 

[cowman]

City Classics has the Crafton Ave station, which is a close match listed at about $20.  Walthers has Al's Victory Service for about $28, but not as close a match.  May be able to do better on price by shopping around.

Good luck,

Richard

[ACY Tom]

Not sure if these can be found outside of eBay or a model RR show/swap meet, but they all represent the Art Deco style in your photo.  These numbers are from old Walthers Catalogs:

Walthers 933-3099 Al's Victory Service Station

City Classics 195-108 1930's Crofton Ave. Service Station

J L Innovative Designs 361-431  Storm Lake Mobil Service

Micro Structures 502-879300 Gulf Gas Station

There may be others.  Good luck.

[NittanyLion]

It's no exaggeration to say that the City Classics kit is practically the same building.  Only differences, really, is that the nearest corner isn't rounded off and that there's two restroom doors on the right side of the building.

[zstripe]

Alex,

This is what the City Classic's: Craftton Avenue Service Station looks like:

http://www.cityclassics.biz/ho_crafton.html

Walthers, Al's Victory Service Station:

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3072

Frank

BTW: My choice would be the Walthers kit more detail and larger. I have the City Classic's, The latter was not out at the time, Your choice, if either.

[G Paine]

This the City Classics station that I built as Texaco for the Boothaby Railway Village layout. I added an interior and lots of interior details from JL Innovatiative. The station is a basic kit with 4 walls, base and roof. Easy to build and lots of potential for adding details. Microscale makes a number of decal sets that are designed to fit this kit.

[dknelson]

This may sound nuts but don't reject out of hand what a little work with the old reliable Plasticville gas station might result in.  You somtimes see them cheap at swap meets.

Dave Nelson

[Southwest Chief]

I'd also say the City Classics is probably the closest model out there.  For price, that's the one I'd go with.  Although I really like Dave's idea of using the Plasticville HO gas station.  That should be pretty cheap.

 

Here's another nice gas station to add to the list:

Scale Structures 1940s Gas Station

I built one into an early Chevron Station:

 

[ALEX WARSHAL]

I think the City Classics would work best because of the size of my layout. I like all the ideas so far; keep em coming.

[Grampys Trains]

Here's my City Classics branded for Gulf. DJ.

[jmbjmb]

November 1993 MR has an article on building a Sinclair gas station as well as Pure.  Looks just like the one in the photo.

[alco_fan]

It is too bad there is not an online source for searching for things like this. No wait, there is:

http://www.walthers.com/exec/search?category=Structure&scale=H&manu=&item=&keywords=gas+station&words=restrict&instock=Q&split=30&Submit=Search

 

[dstarr]

This is a little older prototype, but there were plenty of them still in business thruout the 1950s.

I need to do a better job bedding the structure down on the layout.  Yet another entry in my todo list.  It's a train show plastic kit, don't remember the maker, but there are plenty more like it out there.  It has operating lights, and pumps and brica brack from various other train shows.  The chopped Ford rod is a Hot Wheels 1:87 from Walmart.