Bus Terminal

[Regg05]

Hey MRRs

Was wondering if any of you modelers ever model a bus terminal.  No I'm not talking about the kit that Walthers make of ther Greyhound Bus terminal of the 50s and 60s but no a urban bus terminal where your city buses turn around at.  

If anyone has any pics that would be great.  Or know if a kit that can be kitbashed to make one.  I'm looking to make something that has a shelter and maybe 3 or 4 bays where the buses pick up passengers...similar to Chicago's Jefferson Park Transit Facility or 95th Red Line terminal.  

Thanks,

Regg

[gmpullman]

Regg,

My buses use one end of my big Union Station as a depot. No fancy shelters or anything... yet.

But what came to mind when you mentioned turning around was the fleet of really nifty B&O buses, with lots of chrome and some had B&O capitol domes on them.

I seem to recall seeing one on a turntable, maybe it was Jersey City? So, I'm throwing out an idea to have a dedicated bus turntable. You could animate it for visual interest.

Here's a forum that has some discussion about the B&O buses.

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?111545-Gateways-to-New-York-Passenger-Terminals

Here is a pretty lengthy discussion about the bus situation in NYC but if you scroll down in the conversation you will find photos and drawings of a bus turntable in the basement of the Hotel Dixie. I just thought it would be something interesting to consider...

http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/742/t/229078.aspx

 I don't know how much space you have to dedicate to your terminal but I wonder if the Walthers Municipal Pier building could be kitbashed into a bus terminal?

https://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3066

All those bays along the side could be your entrance/exits or the traffic could pass through using the main front archway?

What era are you asking about?

Have Fun! Ed

[chutton01]

The Chicago Jefferson Park Transit Center the OP references is fairly modern, using lots of glass plates & metal channels. Faller has some modern bus shelters you could conceivably cobble into such an intermodel center, but oddly in OO scale (or maybe not oddly, UKians seem to love their bus systems) there are more types of contemporary glass&metal bus shelters available, e.g. Hornby, Scale Model Scenery, Creative Masters.

Maybe look into scratchbuilding?

[Regg05]

Yes i actually thought about using one of the European train shelters/stations as a possible bus terminal and instead of where the tracks would lay that would be the street or road for the buses...but the one that im thinking of platforms are a little to high off the ground so may not work.  

Thought about just making some platforms myself out of styrene sheets or balsa wood and painting them concrete color but then i would need signs, poles, and possibly canopies or some similar to hide the passengers from the elements.  Just a thought.

[BroadwayLion]

PABT (Prot Authority Bus Terminal) is nothing more than a BIG building with buses that go in and out of it. There are ramps up to the second and third levels, my bus always went into the basement level from the street.

LION have no real bus terminal, but him did get a lot of the old 50s vintage GM beese, and LION will follow the NYCT prototype. Both city buses and the machines belonging to the BeeLine bus service from Westchester all terminate at 242nd Street.

LION did look up the routes so him could make the bus stop sighs and destination boards correctly. The MABSTOA beese fan out across parts of the Bronx where there are no subways, while the BeeLine makes a bee line for Westchester and local stops north as far as Tarrytown.

ROAR

[Colorado_Mac]

We have an awesome new bus terminal connected to Union Station here in Denver. Mostly underground, so easy to model!  Google it.