My Fire Station Projects

Great looking station project and trucks. I need to find a couple of fire trucks that don't cost as much as a house. 

Gary

I bought mine off Ebay, prices fluxuate, probably average $40.  I sent the trucks to be kitbashed, aerials, quad, to Tom Eve.  He does a great job.

Mike

Very nice buildings.

Very cool structure and fire trucks.

Nice.  I particularly like the arched doorways on the first one!  Classy, like some of the old ones I remember when I was a kid.  I need to find a place for a fire station on my layout.  Your's look so good!  and I have several really nice firetrucks, three of which run on my 'Streets.

Looks very nice. Fire trucks are a bit hard to find. I will take your advice and check on ebay. So far, my LHS can only get the older models like you have in your lower photos, but I think theirs are even older vintage. Thanks for posting the building info also, will be needing a fire house soon. I have been eyeing the Ameri-Towne fire station. They also have a front only for kit-bashing, but it looks like both are just single door units, does look like a wide door though. Don't know if you could adapt something like that for your addition or not? That's all I have really looked at, I have not seen the building you have posted until now.

I also need a modern fire truck and ambulance. I switched my crossover with a train on it the other day and had half the train went on one track and the other half on the other track. Then a worker was hit by the train. After he got done laughing, my grandson informed me we had no fire truck or ambulance to rescue the worker. He's very good at finding things missing from the layout. He has a lot of good ideas too. He also enjoys grandpa getting the switches mixed up and wrecking the train. For some reason he never does this, he always uses the correct switches?

Finally had a chance to re-start my fire station projects.  I found another B/J Traction 2 bay kit, and with a little sawing and sanding have come up with this 4 bay station.

Now will house Bethpage ALF 700 series, 2 pumpers, 70' aerial and a quad.

The Firehouse and trucks should look great on your layout. Well done.

Excellent work.

Massive Station   wish I had that much real estate.

My Trucks still sit out in the weather.

And well they should!  They're making it rain there!  I 've always liked this scene a lot.