Train Station

[doanster]

Hello!

I am planning on building a station set in some region around California or New Mexico. Can you tell me where I can find pictures? (I live in Canada so I am no where remotely close to the actual locations [:(])

I envision a concrete station with a Mexican theme with tan or pale-yellow color walls, perhaps with a stucco finish. There might be palm trees surrounding the station. It is a passenger station.

Maybe something like this:
http://www.terragalleria.com/california/picture.usca9742.html

I would imagine that it would be served by the Santa Fe or Southern Pacific... I am not sure since I recently had the urge to model a sunny location while it is snowing outside my window!

[simon1966]

http://www.trains.com/content/dynamic/articles/000/000/002/957eymhi.asp

I remembered seeing an article in a back issue of MRR. This link takes you to a brief description of the article. It looks like the type of scene you are describing.

[Anonymous]

Hi,
Did you happen to get the Jan 05 issue of Model Railroader, it has a smaller structure that just may fit the bill. The Lamy station of Santa Fe, New Mexico. It's a scratch build but the article list's all the parts and how to's.
[:)]

Chris

[ericsp]

Search for train station and Southern Pacific and train station and Santa Fe. If that does not produce results, try omitting the train part.

[Anonymous]

try doing a google search on Santa Fe Station in San Diego

http://www.sdrm.org/sfd.html

[Anonymous]

doanster,

I've been thinking of doing the same thing.

You might want to looks at this site:

http://www.atsfrr.com/

It's the Historical site with pictures for the Ol SantaFe.
I think they still have pictures there of the old Clovis New Mexico Station
which still stands but now houses the Clovis Train Depot Museum...

http://www.clovisdepot.com/

Just to the West of this Train Depot is the Clovis Train Yard and at one time this was a HUGE Yard.

I hope this helps!

Chris