I think I asked about this on the Layout Planning and Building but it didn't go anywhere helpful. There was a thread a while about showing a great customization job on the Atlas Lumber Yard. I've done searches but could not find it anywhere. Can anyone help? Or if you got'em, how about showing them. I just got this kit and got it assembled but I really need some help getting to look real.
i dont know if this is the one you're talking about but if i may offer this link to my article i wrote last year. It shows how i went along and built the exact same kit you're talking about, modified it a bit and placed it on the layout. hope this helps
http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/1072274/ShowPost.aspx
enjoy :)
The Atlas Lumber Yard is a great kit. Here's what I did on my former HO layout with it and the Walthers Mills Brothers complex. Ranchero that is a quality tutorial.
A number of years ago there was a Kalmbach book on kitbashing structures by the late Art Curran. There was an article in the book showing how to take two lumber yards and make a larger model. I don't know if the book is still in print. Recently MRR magazine ran an article on how to update the building. Perhaps that might help you.
Jim
Chuck beautiful work.
God bless, Alan.
AltoonaRailroader wrote:Thank you both Chuck and Loather! Those are some great pics and they're already making me rethink my configuration. I'll be sure to add pics of my own when I get to putting this industry in place.
Great work guys! I think I'll go out and get a kit of my own! Hopefully it'll turn out good! Its just what that empty siding on my layout needs! Altoona RR, can't wait to see your pics!
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I built one of these also but was wondering:
Did they use these in the steam era?
Anyone have an answer?
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MilwaukeeRoad wrote: Did they use these in the steam era?
Do you mean, did they use lumber sheds like the Atlas model in the steam era? They certainly did in the transition era. I saw several very similar to the Atlas structure when I was kid in the 1950s, and they weren't brand new then.
Santa Fe Rwy had a lumber shed used by its store departments that is a dead ringer for the Atlas shed, except that it lacks the door in the back side with platform going through the building. A standard plan for this building, dated 1919, is in the Kachina Press book, Santa Fe System Standards, Volum 3 copyright 1978.
I have seen many lumber sheds that were like two Atlas sheds placed face to face, with a covered drive through going down the center between the lumber racks on each side. I have thought about using 2 Atlas kits to model but would take some semi-tricky kitbashing for the center covered drive and you would end up with two sawing tables at opposite corners of the building, which wouldn't seem very likely. I have also used 2 Atlas kits end to end to make a longer lumber shed.