Camden Yards Warehouse in HO?

[markW]

Hello,

Has anyone built a replica of the Camden Station Warehouse for their layout? If so, what kits did you use?

Was thinking I could use a couple of these kits:https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Railroad-Building-Middlesex-Manufacturing/dp/B00171N7JC

for the main part of the building, BUt I am having a hard time finding something to duplicate the loading dock openings at the bottom of the building. Anyone have any insight?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/74zuv66vsjsyt92/Camden.jpg?dl=0

Thanks,

Mark

[gmpullman]

Hi, Mark

Some participants here may not be able to access Dropbox so I have posted your photo here:

Camden by Edmund, on Flickr

   — and I'll try to make the link to the Atlas building clickable:

https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Railroad-Building-Middlesex-Manufacturing/dp/B00171N7JC

While not quite identical, I used the Walthers kit to represent a large warehouse on my layout:

GE_Warehse by Edmund, on Flickr

It doesn't show up well in this photo but I built a sub-base under the structure that supports the roadway. I imagine you could do something similar. Tichy, Micro Engineering and Central Valley, among others, offer girders that could be used along with some brick sheet to kit-bash that lower level.

Besides the obvious girder, the rest of the ground-floor looks like stone pilasters with steel lintels which could be built using either hand-carved styrene or possibly pieces of Chooch stone retaining walls.

This might be a good place to try your skill at making a master of the pillaster you need, then making a latex mold of it and casting multiples out of a good plaster-of-Paris. The steel beams could be made using Evergreen I beam or channel.

Good Luck, Ed

[BigDaddy]

Here is a better look at the ground floor.

Looks like the doors are roll up doors, I think plastruct has something similar that you could place behind the columns.  The pillasters look like a good candidate for 3D printing, but if you are not already into that, the expense and learning curve of design is significant.  Perhaps just carved foam would suffice.   I would build a new ground floor out of styrene, set back to accomodate the doors and pilasters.

The other side of the building looks like the same construction.

 

[markW]

Thanks guys! You have both given me much to think about and look at. Guess it's about time to start learning how to"kitbash".

Thanks for your help,

Mark

[doctorwayne]

Are you planning to make a model of the entire structure, or merely a representation of it?

I think that the Middlesex building, in multiples, is a pretty good choice, but I'd suggest segmenting the walls by cutting out the portions where the prototype has the pilasters and arches in-relief, then replacing the removed parts with sheet styrene of a thickness equal to that of the kit.  You could then cement the removed portions back onto the sheet styrene, giving the 3-D effect of the prototype.

Others have made some good recommendations regarding the stone columns and girders.

You could use Evergreen's corrugated siding, horizontally, for the roll-up doors.

If you build it, we'll expect photos of both the construction and of the finished results.

Wayne

[oldline1]

Pikestuff has roll up doors.

oldline1

 

[richhotrain]

doctorwayne

I think that the Middlesex building, in multiples, is a pretty good choice

If you build it, we'll expect photos of both the construction and of the finished results.

Wayne 

I agree that the Middlesex building would be ideal. Kitbash two kits together and add the first floor loading docks with a bit of scratchbuilding.

Rich

[kasskaboose]

Here are more photos (old and new) of the historic warehouse and some history:

https://explore.baltimoreheritage.org/items/show/324

You could always contact the B&O musuem in B'more b/c they have an HO scale of the city, which include the warehouse.

Have fun!

[richhotrain]

Let's make that link clickable.

https://explore.baltimoreheritage.org/items/show/324

Rich 

[markW]

A representation of it. A full model would be over 11', I believe. So I was just looking to get the general look and ambiance of the warehouse. Something between 12" and 24" would be good, I guess.

Mark

[richhotrain]

markW

A representation of it. A full model would be over 11', I believe. So I was just looking to get the general look and ambiance of the warehouse. Something between 12" and 24" would be good, I guess.

ahh, Mark, I feel your pain. You are going to have to settle for something less than a "full model". On my current layout, I built 11 large freight houses. As an example, one of those freight houses measured 762 feet on the prototype. In HO scale, that would be 105 inches, or 8.75 feet. So, I wound up building a believable representation at 42 inches.

In your situation, you are dealing with a warehouse measuring in excess of 950 feet on the prototype. So, a believable representation would probably require a 48 inch HO scale model.

Rich