Show Us Your Best Real Scene/Building That Would Make a Good "O" Scale Model

I have mentioned that there is one of those Tank-Carr stations, no longer selling gas, but the elevated tank car is still there.  It's access track has been pulled. That is about a block from the courthouse in Sidney, Ohio. I have the tankcar for a planned model.

 94th and Ewing in Chicago.  John in Lansing, ILL

rattler

what and where is that corner building?

Scalerail, is your photo a scene from "The Great Gatsby" film?

David

tripleo posted:

rattler

what and where is that corner building?

Bamboo Lounge. 94th Street and Ewing in Chicago. 

I love this Victorian era structure:

But I loved this tower too!

I loved it's unique style so much that I actually had one built for me!

I really enjoy these types of threads - always makes me think there's more to the story. For instance, I wonder why the flag in the above picture is flying at half staff. There has to be a reason.

West Broad Street Richmond VA.

colorado hirailer posted:

I have mentioned that there is one of those Tank-Carr stations, no longer selling gas, but the elevated tank car is still there.  It's access track has been pulled. That is about a block from the courthouse in Sidney, Ohio. I have the tankcar for a planned model.

Where exactly, do you know?  I was trying to search for it, but can't find it.

Greenpoint, Brooklyn:

Here is mine, but I already made it.

Photo taken by me in Bisbee, Arizona in 2005.  A small footprint building that could be anywhere.  I plan on getting down there again sometime in the next year to get some overall measurements.

Thank you 645, I just found it.  The address is:

115 S. Walnut Ave.
Sidney, OH 45365

Flat iron building in? Does anyone know???

While this would be nice as an O scale model, the space occupied (over six feet) wouldn't be real practical. This is the Redlands Depot, built roughly the same time as the San Bernardino Depot (early 1900's). The actual depot is a small Santa Fe wooden depot, but the passenger shelter is concrete and modeled after a Greek temple. I've modeled it in RR-Track for a possible build, but it's not really practical (nice to dream, though).  SANBAG (San Bernardino Association of Governments) has begun work to put in a commuter rail operation between San Bernardino and University of Redlands (a couple of miles East of the depot), so at some point in time, passenger trains will again return to the Redlands Depot. The structure on the roof of the shelter is the shanty for the gateman. There's another one at the other end that was for symmetry.

Loved the Redlands Depot! The San Bernardino depot is my favorite, but O scale would be a monster. Someone built a G scale version and there is a video of it on YouTube. Looks great illuminated at night in the outdoors!

The East Highlands Depot on the Redlands loop looked unique with the fieldstone, as did the one at Patton with the Moorish architecture.

Here are a few photos and the models I made from them.

Built as a hotel in 1868 this now restaurant could be a hotel, store or house.  Great roof line's.

Located in Plymouth Michigan.  A great place for Corned Beef Hash and watch the trains go by.

Azgary

https://plymouthmidiscoveries.com/page/16/

Small towns in Illinois.   John in Lansing, ILL

What died on top of this beautiful building?

KarlW posted:

Loved the Redlands Depot! The San Bernardino depot is my favorite, but O scale would be a monster. Someone built a G scale version and there is a video of it on YouTube. Looks great illuminated at night in the outdoors!

 

There was one on display in City Hall done in H.O. I talked to the builder at the Prototype Modeler's Meet a couple of years ago and he had managed to obtain drawings of the depot. The model was almost six feet long. In O Scale it would be about 11 feet long. I have street-side photos taken before they built the new strip mall between 2nd and 3rd streets. I'll dig them up tonight and post them. I have the drawings, but don't even want to touch building a model (I did send TW Trainworx a set if they want to go for it).

Here ya go:

Skippy plant, street view:

Skippy plant aerial view:

Sorry for trotting this one out again, but it was my only attempt at an exact replica of a real structure:

I still like it, Pete.

MJRODG3N88;. I think it was a year ago and the tank car was there...it looked like there was a separate building on the grounds that had been used as a repair shop as well as a small station building below the elevated car. Is it still there?  Sorry, l don't know street but the site was west of the post office and NW of the courthouse. Downtown Sidney is maybe a mile east of I-75.

Bessemer & Lake Erie Kaylor Yard circa fall 1981,   yard building/office.   While the ex bay window caboose is unique to the B&LE,  a more standard /normal bay window caboose could be bashed into something like this.

Nick

GG1 4877 posted:

Photo taken by me in Bisbee, Arizona in 2005.  A small footprint building that could be anywhere.  I plan on getting down there again sometime in the next year to get some overall measurements.

That's a Valentine (manufacturer) Diner.  They were built in Kansas.  You may be able to find the measurements online.  Perhaps even some plans.  If I recall, Valentine's came in two sizes: small and smaller :-}. Of course, a visit to Bisbee would be nice, too.  Very nice nighttime photo, by the way.

Tomlinson Run Railroad

I've always liked Pasadena railroad station I snapped this about 1987. Roo.

Chicago Heights, Illinois 5/16/17.  John in Lansing, ILL

Most of mine would be old RR stations, grain elevators, a lot. and some in ruins, and mining structures. Also have photoed a number of old stone pyramid iron furnaces, a couple restored, in Pa. and southern Ohio. Haven't found one served by rail, but some were in use long enough to have been.