Yes, no train shed for the 'new' (1923) SPUD.
Ever since the Walthers kit came out, I've thought it would be a very good starting point modelling a well known a building in Minneapolis - not the Milwaukee Road depot, but the Minneapolis City Hall a few blocks away.
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Hey y'all. I am Paul's friend Gary. We have been working on Paul's layout for the better part of three months specfically on "Milwuakee", if I remember correctly because I don't reemember when we started. Our buddy Mike is the building "purter togetherer and painterer". Mike and I are native Texans and Paul is our token Yankee. Seriously, he is from Milwaukee and Mike and I have learned a lot from him about the Everett Street Depot and area.
I will get some pictures up later.
I have not taken time to read every post in this thread but Paul did tell me that y'all were talking about lighting for the train shed. Mike did some eBay research and came up with a gentlemen that goes by "wehonest-cn". He has all manner of HO scale stuff including scale hanging lighting. The lights are a good representation of the old "service station" lights that, as best we can tell, are what they used in the train shed. The bulbs are surface mount LEDs. Our plan is to duplicate, as closely as we can, the lighting in the train shed. From what we can determine, they used something called knob and tube wiring and the hoods are suspended from a pipe. In one of the books that Paul has it appears that the lighting had one fixture on a beam then three lights on the next beam, then one light and then three lights on the following beam and so forth and so on, get the idea? The very first beam does not have a light fixture. We are going to hang 44 of these lights.
Oh yea, one great thing about this project is that I have learned how to spell Milwaukee.
Let me get to work on the pictures I am going to upload.
Gary CEO ASGW Railways
My grand son calls the depot "city hall"so I guess that it would work. I thought about the train shed after I made my last post and remembered that I used 4 kits not 8. I was thinking of the kits 2 sections of roof. Anyway I corrected my post. There is now someone that has produced a proper kit for the depot building. I am thinking about getting it. All that work done by Mike bilding the Walthers kit and now it's obsolete. If I do get the new kit I'll keep on with the work of doing Milwaukee while the new kit is built. I did the post office by taking the Walthers post office kit and reducing it to a 2 story and making the length twice as long. Not perfect but it looks all right. The REA building I'm scratch building out of PVC sheet. Much easyer to work with and very much cheaper. A 4x8 sheet costs about $35. I have also built 40 baggage wagons. These are Bar Mills kits. The post office was actually owened buy the railroad and used for handling the mail.
Paul
Here are the pictures I promised. I appologize for the cluttered background.
WOW! That shed is enormous. I have one thats only 1 1/2 kits long and I know how much space that takes up. I'd love to see any more recent pix you have, most especially details of the curved track area at the "top" of these pix, as the track curves away to the left. Any info on which turnouts and track you guys used would be a great help.
Hi, Jeff
Here's a look at my present Union Station:
IMG_8624_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
I used a Faller kit for the "Head House" and my track arrangement seems to be similar to those photos above.
Union Station by Edmund, on Flickr
Walthers is planning to relase another run of the Milwaukee station later this month and I plan to get one to replace my present building. Simply because I'm enamored with the huge, brick structure.
I'll probably keep the existing T shaped platform sheds and concourse.
I used Shinohara curved turnouts at the "throat" of the station tracks. I'll see if I can find a photo of that area.
Good Luck, Ed
Awesome scene Ed, thanks for the photos! I know what you mean about the Walthers Everett Street Station. I had purchased and eventually stopped work on four other stations because they just didn't "feel" right for the location. I found the Milwaukee station kit on ebay some years back and paid waaaay too much for it, but its exactly what I wanted!