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What the Stations of Different North American Railroads Looked Like

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Posted by Bundy74 on Monday, January 16, 2017 1:42 PM

Most major railroads had engineering departments with standard designs for depots, freight stations, towers, etc...  Your best bet for freelancing is to find either

1) a railroad you interchange with that could serve as a "parent" road from which you could use their structure designs or

2) Find a shortline or regional road and use their structures as a guide for kitbashing/scratchbuilding your own.

There have been many articles and drawings on "standard" structures in MRR, RMC, and other publications.  Just search the index.http://trc.trains.com/en/Train%20Magazine%20Index.aspx

Modeling whatever I can make out of that stash of kits that takes up half my apartment's spare bedroom.

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What the Stations of Different North American Railroads Looked Like
Posted by NWP SWP on Monday, January 16, 2017 12:18 PM

Hi I am trying to figure out what style stations I am going to use on my cascade northern r.r. and I am reletively under-informed when it comes to structures of different railroads. If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it.

Steve

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