General Discussion (Model Railroader)

A friend of mine has this station on his layout and it looks great.  I customized a sound decoder for it that randomly plays 1 of 10 announcements when a button is pushed on the side of the layout.

Don

It REALLY helped a ton to be able to actually see it's size and height in 3D. I've never tackled a $200 list, kit before and it helped me to get familiar with the parts and up the courage quotient. My old approx. corrugated box cut out didn't tell me what I wanted to know.

I have a learning disability that prevents me from reading maps upside down for instance, so the "real deal" made all the difference. The "Wow" factor is there too for visitors until I finally get around to building the kit.>P

If I'm going to be able to use the shed at all, I'll have to cheat by not using the Walther's base and change the track spacing. It may include a turnout though, so not too likely :-(

walthers display model

Capt. Grimek:

It REALLY helped a ton to be able to actually see it's size and height in 3D. I've never tackled a $200 list, kit before and it helped me to get familiar with the parts and up the courage quotient. My old approx. corrugated box cut out didn't tell me what I wanted to know.

 It really is a good idea.  Especially when you're working with a modular system or kitbashing.  Foam core walls with scanned images taped on for big buildings and heavy watercolor paper for smaller ones.  I have a really good idea what my layout will look like and I've only built a fifth of the benchwork and none of anything else.

Here are some photos I shot real quickly just to give you some idea of the dimensions and the fit with other buildings.  You will have to forgive the blue sheet background.  Still in the process of completing the background to this passenger station annex.  Just trying to hide some of the clutter.

Rich

Station looks gorgeous. Did you skip roof on your shed on purpose, to be able to see through it? I kind of like the idea.. By the way, it's interesting that you set passenger shed perpendicular to the station, in all pictures I've seen i was in parallel. I guess this way you can appreciate the station more since you can see it facade and be able to see all of the train shed. Otherwise the shed would be hidden behind the station, or blocking it. (I'm talking about layouts where you have a wall on one side)

trainsBuddy:

Station looks gorgeous. Did you skip roof on your shed on purpose, to be able to see through it? I kind of like the idea.. By the way, it's interesting that you set passenger shed perpendicular to the station, in all pictures I've seen i was in parallel. I guess this way you can appreciate the station more since you can see it facade and be able to see all of the train shed. Otherwise the shed would be hidden behind the station, or blocking it. (I'm talking about layouts where you have a wall on one side)

trainsBuddy,

I only put the roof on one of the two train sheds in an attempt to at least resemble Chicago's Dearborn Station.  Since Dearborn Station and its train sheds were set in a perpendicular fashion with the tracks feeding into the back of the station, I wanted to do the same thing on my layout.

Rich