Need Help in finding Drawings or a scale worthy drawing of this station

From Passenger Terminals and Trains, 1916 (reprint 1969). There is no plan and this book calls the station Northern Central Station.  No floor plan for this station. Pages 96, 97.

Dimensions

Station building: Length 275 feet, Width 60 feet

Main waiting room:  65 feet wide, 95 feet long, 35 feet high

Train concourse is in two parts. One portion includes  a covered lobby 330 feet long and 28 feet wide which extends along the track side of the station and connects with Charles Street bridge.  

The other portion consists of an enclosed lobby, 50 feet wide, extending across the seven passenger tracks. This lobby opens onto the main waiting room. The tracks are 18 feet below the main floor of the station.  There are eight stairways leading to train platforms.  These platforms are 20 feet wide and from 600 to 1000 feet long.

That is going to be one huge model. How big is your layout?

The Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey has various photos and plans online, listed as Pennsylvania Railroad: Pennsylvania Station. Baltimore, Baltimore City, MD . It appears you can contact them for copies or access to the originals.

That is going to be one ambitious project, John. It will be a stunner. I wish you well with this one as I love passenger train stations.

John...you may want to check out the suggestion that Bill Robb makes above...very good idea and I'll bet you will find something.  Also, the building inspector / permit department might be able to help.  Even way back when the station was built, I'll bet that the architect/engineers/contractors had to submit plans to the appropriate city department....just a few thoughts....

Alan

Thanks guys.

Bill - Thanks for the link and the over all dimensions this will help in laying the foundation.

I have a 16 in by 72.5 area available. So size is not the issue. I plan on elevating this above a 5 track yard.

Bill thats it!

The Library of Congress has drawings of the floor plan online... now I just have to see if I can enlarge and print....

No Drawings on the facades though...

I suspect the Library of Congress has those drawings.  Given this is an active train station and security concerns I would be surprised to see those online.  A site plan and elevation drawings would really help you.

I got the drawings for the Sunkist packing house in Riverside off the L.O.C. site. The TIFF files seemed to work better for me on the plotter.

Matt, your right... Tiff files are available, they are very large. Down loading them of the floor plan now. You can zoom in and read everything on the print.

this will be the location of Penn Station. I just completed the yard track in this area.

so updates to come....

Craig- that would be great. I could get the floor plan going right away.

John,

It seems that you would have to build a room large enough to fit this beautiful station, in.

Good Luck,

Ralph

Of these grand beautiful stations, it is  a shame that the Pennsylvania Station, in Manhattan, N.Y. City, was torn down.

These majestic buildings, which could last for a few hundred years, were built when space was plentiful and no other tall buildings were erected close by to them.

Ralph

Actually to scale the main building "train shed" is approximately 15 inches wide by 72 inches long.

I will compress the width to 1 foot wide, but the length I am going to keep the same.

I have 30 ft to work with on the length so I'm ok there...

Is the airplane on the backdrop or hanging from the ceiling? I really like it as it draws your eye away from the corner. 

Mike, yes it is hanging from the ceiling. Its a Lionel Bi-plane.

Thanks.

Below is the link, if it works, where a gentlemen used MTH's banks to recreate a station that looks kind of like Baltimore's station.  Just in case you may want to take a different approach.

http://www.jcstudiosinc.com/Ni...-banks-Union-Station