Looking for Unusual Building Ideas

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by michaelstevens

Fergie,
Here are a couple of links to "coffee pot" buildings;

http://www.route40.net/scrapbook/in/index.shtml

http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bhp/news/overview.asp?secid=25

There's a better picture of the second one via "philly.com" -- but they'll want money for it !

That brought back a memory or two of a place I forgot about when I was a kid. It was a place in Richmond Hill (North of Toronto) on Yonge Street Called the Copper Kettle and yes that's what it was a Giant Copper Kettle, Wonder if the Misses will notice if ours is relocated? mmmm.......

[michaelstevens]

Fergie,
Here are a couple of links to "coffee pot" buildings;

http://www.route40.net/scrapbook/in/index.shtml

http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bhp/news/overview.asp?secid=25

There's a better picture of the second one via "philly.com" -- but they'll want money for it !

[Anonymous]

There are several car wash's in Calgary with a wash bay in a building which is shaped like a large steel bucket. By the looks of it the bucket building's bay could hold a large semi-truck.

[Anonymous]

You could consider modelling some re-worked warehouses now turned into luxury apartments - there's a whole load of these in Bristol (UK), and there's even a small preserved steam railway running over some of the old dockside tracks in connection with an industrial museum. There must be similar things in the US? How about some of the small RRs in New York which had all their trackage as street running and ran into/through buildings along their routes? Suppose (modeller's license!) someone managed to re-activate one of these as a tourist line, you could run any number of small switchers, with a short string of cabooses as passenger transport. The Walthers "Oscar" and "Piker" cars could also be used. Would be an interesting model!

[Anonymous]

The House of Ill Repute[X-)][}:)] [{(-_-)}][}:)] [censored][}:)] got me thinking that there must be some very unusual business's or Business's that are housed in unusual buildings out there. I'm suremany of us would be very interested in what is out there.[:0]

As I said in the House of [X-)][}:)] [{(-_-)}][}:)] [censored][}:)] thread There was a small bar in Sheet Harbour on the Eastern Shore Nova Scotia where someone had bought an Oil Storage Tank (Several Thousand Gallon), which had never been used, and converted it into a bar called "The Tank".[oX)]