Who uses a depot on their layout?

[Todd McWilliam]

Who utilizes depots on their layouts? I have one and it is a maintenance office for the crew. I model the rock island.

[BRAKIE]

I also have a small wooden depot on my industrial switching layout..You see it was moved from its old location on Railroad St. to the industrial park..It serves as a railroad theme restaurant...[:D]

[cacole]

We have three that are still used as active passenger train stops on the club layout, because members are free to model whatever line and era they want.

[Anonymous]

I have two. A Old AHM Rico passenger station and a AHM Freight station. They form the Passenger, mail and less than car load componet of my road.

[Anonymous]

I do. My layout plans call for like 10 to 12 of them. I have 4 in my inventory now.

James

[Anonymous]

I currently have one. Eventually I'll have 3. 1 Passenger depot, 2 freight depots

[Roadtrp]

I currently have a passenger depot. I plan to add a freight depot.

[Anonymous]

Have one passenger depot and plans for 2 passenger stations. i'm running out of room so i'm just putting platforms with amshacks next to them.
Andrew Miller

[Don Gibson]

Who utilizes depots on their layouts?

A. People running Passenger Trains?

[Anonymous]

When I get some free time I have plans for 2 depots. I am going to duplicate the Ladysmith Wi. & the Fort Atkinson Wi. depot's from scratch. The Ft. Atkinson depot was torn down around 1970. It was a neat structure to see way back then. "At least I thought so " PS; What's a layout without a depot any ways?..................................Don't tell me Ha Ha Ha.

[BNSFNUT]

I have one passenger depot on my layout. It serves 2 Amtrak trains a day.
I have not modeled the two trains yet due to cost but I just hung an Amtrak sign on the station.

[Anonymous]

Not necessarily just passenger. My freight depot is equipped with milk sheds to get milk from local farmers. And a team track for out sized freight.

[Anonymous]

I Still use one of my depots i havn't decied if i'm gonna use the other

[Anonymous]

I have one depot with plans for another depot and a model of Santa Fe's Oklahoma City passenger Station.
Ch

[newhavenguy]

I will have 10. I'm running passenger operations along with freight operations. Running locals, expresses and run throughs requires quite a few stations. 5 are mainline,7 are branchline. The branch lines stations are both freight and passenger.

[eastcoast]

Have several. They come in very handy at the whistle stops on my 3 mainlines.
Some are passenger depots and others are for the freights. All are useful.

[Anonymous]

The depot on my layout serves as the RR's headquarters and crew base--modern shortline economics.

[orsonroy]

Since I'm modeling a 1950-era railroad in "dark" territory, I'll have one in every town. Right now, I've got three, and I'll eventually have seven, including one Union station.

[Eriediamond]

My rural farm theme 1940's Erie layout will have only one small wooden depot simular to the old Erie depot in South Dayton, NY. I like your use of a depot Brakie, neat idea!! Also like the milk shed idea of Highiron's, since I'm an old ex-dairy farmer of western NY state, back when we still kept two teams of work horses, even though we did have a couple of tractors (Johnny Popper B and an 8N Ford) [:)][:)] Those old John Deeres and steam locos had a lot in common. They both had two cylinders and both were real work horses. [(-D][(-D][(-D]

[bluepuma]

Never bought one, never saw one until I moved to ILLINOIS, I now know there was one in Pasadena, one in Riverside and Union Station in downtown LA. Might have made room for a Greyhound or Trailways terminal, recently have been tempted to put one trackside as a museum or restuarant. I can think of more airports than train stations in the area I model. Here I know Mendota, Princeton, Galesburg, and the closed station in Utica.

[Anonymous]

Is there a consistancy of design and colors in the depots on the layouts of those of you who have multiple depots?

Wayne

[CBQ_Guy]

I'll have 6 or 7 areas on the layout where passenger depots could go. But since I'm modeling the late 1960's, a couple will be closed, boarded up, etc. And one will only have the foundation left with the former house track being used for car storage.

[Jetrock]

I have plans to build a freight depot--I haven't decided yet whether my small WP interchange will include the nearby passenger station. It is still around--there are two train stations standing downtown, an old SP station that is still in use and an old WP station that is now a restaurant. There is a replica of the old CP station in Old Sacramento, although it isn't the actual station--but I suppose it sort of counts. The old interurban station was knocked down to build a hotel 20-30 years ago, and the freight depot I want to model was demolished to make way for a freeway.

[Anonymous]

In theory I'll have one. It'll be a small museum and have a 2-10-4 parked next to it on display when not running business or excursion trains.