Thanks for the kind comments about the Bing station. Here is another picture of it together with what I consider one of the greatest painted tin stations --the Kibri 52-3 from the late 1920s and early 30s. Lew
Hamm Village Depot:
Last train on Sunday night, pulls in before high-balling return run to the big apple...
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MELGAR posted:Randy,
If you are trying to simulate concrete texture on a model, a product called taskboard is easy to cut and use, takes glue and acrylic paints well, and looks right to me. Can also be used for concrete or asphalt roads. It is available on line or from the N-Scale Architect.
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Mel:
Thanks for the lead on Task Board. I will give it a try.
Pretty good snapshot (by a couple of visiting friends) taken 2 - 3 months ago, Beauregard Street, Mobile. This is the GM&O Gulf Terminal Building, 1906-1907. I worked in it for 15 years, 70's - 80's.
It was originally built as Mobile Union Station, used by the (original) M&O and Southern Railway. It is now owned by the City of Mobile.
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Magnificent photos and modeling, Gentlemen! Thank you all for sharing.
From my former home town area. 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I hope to have a custom model of this built for me someday.
The following pictures were all taken by me. (And it probably shows)
Oxford, Pa., where we moved from. On the former PRR Octoraro Branch, owned by SEPTA and operated by the East Penn Railway.
The abandoned Elkton, Md. station on the Northeast Corridor. A place I used to like sitting in my car with a chocolate milkshake and watch Amtrak trains whoosh by.
And from my new home area in Southern California. An old Santa Fe station in Escondido, Ca.
The magnificent Santa Fe Station in downtown San Diego.
Look at that tile work! It's the same inside the station too.
And a couple from our travels. Kankakee, Il. waiting for the City of New Orleans. Last time I was there, a model railroad club was building a layout inside the passenger car next to the station.
On our drive back home from watching the Philadelphia Flyers play the Las Vegas Knights in Vegas, we drove through Barstow, Ca. and saw the beautiful Barstow Amtrak station, that once was the home of a Harvey House restaurant. They have a museum inside but it was closed when we were there. Road Trip!!
And finally, the commuter / Amtrak station with some action in Oceanside, Ca. The old Santa Fe line in Escondido connects with Oceanside.
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Two more of my favorites. The first two pics are the UP station in West Yellowstone, Mt, Western gateway to Yellowstone National Park. It was a short walk through the Park gate.
That is the stone&log station. At 90 degrees rightward from the photographer is:
the Dining Hall. The Park Special always arrived in the early AM and did not carry a dining car. The Conductor went through the train and took breakfast orders and upon arrival you got off the train and walked into this Hall and sat down for breakfast. These pics were taken Summer 1960, the last year of service into West Yellowstone. In later years the Park Special tied up in Victor, Id, on the West side of the Tetons.
We would get off the train and drive a rental car over the pass into Jackson, the Southern gateway to Grand Teton and Yellowstone NPs.
Lew
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Excellent sharing of real-life stations, gentlemen! Real nice variety!
FrankM
Thank you all for participation in this thread. I really liked seeing the photos, both from a members layout as well as prototypical. Do you all think that this thread is wroth repeating periodically?
My sincere Thanks to everybody who sent me "Likes" again, this time for those rural station shots I posted: MELGAR; Dennis Holler; Southern Mike; Strummer; PRRronbh; John H; Diverging Clear; Randy Harrison; Traindiesel; wb47; Quarter Gauger 48; gandydancer1950; trumptrain; Roger Wasson; briansilvermustang; BigTruckPete; Putnam Division.
Receiving the approval of my peers here who have chosen to laud what they have seen me model into place is, of course, totally enjoyable. Thank you!
And to Gandydancer, for your reply, Thank you. I'm real glad you like the details. I loved doing them, frankly.
Palallin, That's supposed to be a secret - she's on a covert mission, trying to be undercover (in a red suit, no less!)
FrankM
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Danbury, CT. Station, served the NH, the Housatonic, Berkshire, and NYC. Two RS-2s reading for departure to the NY, City, once consist and boarding is completed'....
Circa 1957'
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Danbury, Connecticut taken 2017... Now home of the Danbury Railway Museum and last stop on the Metro-North Danbury line.
MELGAR
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Mel, the station is now a museum, and runs their steam loco in nice weather and on holidays. They do a nice little business. There is a train and book store as well. There are excellent layouts in every scale operating. Metro North, now uses a new satellite station just adjacent from the original. The trackage at the original station is used only by the museum. If you get an opportunity to see the museum, I know you would enjoy it'..
This is the steamer that patrons get a chance to ride in the cab, as goes to and from the round house and around the yard pulling an open car and caboose.
A couple of my favorites at the station/museum'
Quarter Gauger 48 posted:Mel, the station is now a museum, and runs their steam loco in nice weather and on holidays. They do a nice little business. There is a train and book store as well. There are excellent layouts in every scale operating. Metro North, now uses a new satellite station just adjacent from the original. The trackage at the original station is used only by the museum. If you get an opportunity to see the museum, I know you would enjoy it'..
Thanks Ted. I visit the Danbury Museum frequently - riding there on Metro-North and walking from the new "station" to the historic site. Your pictures are great images of the New Haven Railroad. Post them on https://ogrforum.com/...c/any-new-haven-fans
MELGAR
My "Home Town" station in the Bronx (growing up), Buhre Avenue EL station on the 6, Pelham Bay Line.....
Peter
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W&W, Grand Central Terminal, complete with a modeling of Park Avenue making its way up at and around the terminal! Outstanding!. I love it, having driven and walked its boundaries in real life. You have a lot to be proud of there.
FrankM.
I have a MTH Station on my layout, but I don't have any good pictures of it available and my layout is currently slated to be rebuilt at some point in the future. Their is a depot in my town that I think is currently being rebuilt into I think a restaurant or Ice Cream Shop. I had information on what railroad line it used to serve that went through town.
Photos show the former station of the New Haven Railroad at Waterbury, Connecticut completed in 1909 and now occupied by a local newspaper.
MELGAR
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Moonson posted:W&W, Grand Central Terminal, complete with a modeling of Park Avenue making its way up at and around the terminal! Outstanding!. I love it, having driven and walked its boundaries in real life. You have a lot to be proud of there.
FrankM.
Thank you Frank for the nice comments.😄
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In 2011, I visited the Snoqualmie Valley Railroad. Here's two photos I took.
Snoqualmie Depot - Built by Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad in 1890.
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The former Southern Railway passenger depot in Salisbury, NC.
Track side.
Front road side.
Restored years ago but only open for events. Some scenes from "Leather-Heads" was filmed here.
Note down at far end where cars are parked is a glassed in aluminum framed waiting room fro NCDOT (Amtrak) passenger train service.
Ron
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Great images and great builds as well! Thanks for posting.