Looking for an O Scale "Union Station"

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Plasticville produced a “Union Station-style” building.  

Take one Lionel Grand Central Station, add two Plasticville Union Stations- and you get a "Grander" Central Station.

Bill- if you want a more detailed post on my kit-bash:

https://ogrforum.com/...nder-central-station

I found a used Lionel "collectible" Lionel Grand Central Station, and just didn't think it had the "look" of what I wanted, particularly the back side of it. 

The Plasticville Union Station kits are really S gauge and therefore too small to be "big city"- but they are relatively cheap at about $28 each or even less, used. 

SO- for $175 (Grand Central) plus about $60 worth of Plasticville, mine looks more like what I want.  And- it is not SO big that it takes over the whole city part of the layout.  The Plasticville side is where the trolley arrives and the Lionel front side is served by street traffic.  All in my little basement empire, of course.

Bill Niles posted:

I am planning my first O scale layout. 

I would like to include a big-city style "union" station. Please see the photo below of an HO scale version from Walters that gives you an idea of what I have in mind.

What I'm looking for doesn't have to be exactly like the above, but it needs to have a style typical of what one would find in a city (like Philadelphia or Chicago) rather than a suburban or rural area.

May I please ask for your suggestions of what might be available for me to purchase in O scale (either ready-built or a kit)? Unlike many of you, I don't have the skills of a scratch-build modeler, so (regrettably) whatever I use on my layout has to be out-of-the box.

Any suggestions (or encouragement) you can offer will be deeply appreciated. To date, I've done what I consider the "easy" part --- accumulating a good inventory of locomotives and trainsets. Now it's time for me to move on to tackle the challenge of building the railroad!

Thank you in advance for your input.

 

Hi Bill

I am in Titusville Fl.

I have one of these partially built , I have built 4 of these for various people , the LACKAWANNA one was for Ben , with the New Jersey Highrailers , he is bluelinec4 on here .

My email is in my profile

That's a beauty!!

That was the first building Bernie ( Scratchbuilder 1-48 )  built for us.  There were many more to come   The Lackawanna Station pictured above is awesome  Full interior detail with the names of all the DLW trains  Lighting etc   This was the first one Bernie did  Saw pics of the ones to follow and he added more to an already great model  Worth every penny    He also built us the Lackawanna Broad street station  His work is phenomenal 

I scratch built my own slightly scaled down version of Chicago's union station out of foam core.  I printed out the picture I found on the TW Trainworx site and measured each part to create my template that I scaled down to fit the space in my city...

As good as it gets . . . .  Trainworxx It ain't cheap, but you get something incredible

Thank you all for sharing such an interesting variety of solutions with very distinct choices!

I think I'm going to enjoy this new hobby! I was afraid that I was sort of painting myself "into a corner" so to speak by investing in O-Scale instead of HO or N. But I love the bigger trains, and you guys make me confident that this is going to be very rewarding and fun.

Thanks again!