Show us your FIRE HOUSES or FIRE STATIONS!!

This was a Twin Whistle kit.

Nice firehoused so far. This was a front that I lengthened the sides and added the back. I added the flag and the lamps which are HO street lamps painted red.

Mine is a couple of boxes of stripwood on the floor along with the plans from an HO kit and some photos.......

Should be done in a few months - check back then,

Here is a picture of mine.

Ken M

Heres a couple of pics of mine along with the Lionel switch tower which I modified with a Lionel fan driven smoke unit to give that fire house something to put out. Always felt that Seuthe unit was a bit anemic.

John A

Nice firehouse.  I grew up in Swoyersville.  Class of 1967.

rjm

Dear rjm....thanks. My dad is class of 1953.  Did you notice the high school in the background?  A portion of my layout is Swoyersville, with the Harry E, Volacks Bar, Leo Gaj store, the Roosevelt theater, Victory Pig, etc.  See my other posts for more pics.  Also, I have a SHS school bus!!

someday mine will look like this...

Stroudsburg, Pa. taken in 1965, 4 years before I was born.

DL&W PETE....use the Plasticville Town Hall for the upper (most difficult) half....the bottom is easy....looks like a fun, easy project. I would love to see your results.  John A

From a similar thread in 2014

Military Fire Station

 Walls printed with Model Builder software on heavy paper glued to styrene sheet.  Roof shingles printed using Excel outline and fill patterns in cell format option printed on red construction paper and glued to foam core board.  Windows in equipment bays were printed on inkjet transparency film with frame patterns done in Excel outline feature of cell format option.

Based on one of the various, “temporary”, wooden structures built at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin in 1942.  Some of the buildings have been updated and modernized while others have been demolished and replaced with modern, concrete block/brick/steel structures.

 Fire House, Building 2750

West 13^th Avenue and West “I” Street

This picture was taken in mid to late 1970’s.  At that time, it was still used by USAR Engineer Firefighting units during their annual training.  This building was demolished a few years ago.  

Fire House, Building 550

East 13^th Avenue and East “L” Street

I believe this is the last of the former, WW II era fire stations still standing at Fort McCoy.  This picture was taken July 19, 2014.  The building is currently being used by one of the many contractors at Fort McCoy to store equipment.

Historical pictures and plans of Fort McCoy buildings can be found at this Library of Congress web site.  An additional Library of Congress Link.

Larry

Thank you for the likes.  This fire house is a duplicate of a fire house about a mile & a half from me.  It is 95% scale.  Custom made by Andre.

Ken M

The community of Hallmark has it's own Fire Dept.

Steve

Here is a photo of Patsburg VFD Station One ( and only )

"operating" MTH firehouse

I have previously posted my enlarged scratch-build of the Georgetown, Colorado historic firehouse with its hose drying tower.  Those photos may be in that previous posting of firehouses mentioned above, or an individual one.  One good thing is that Corgi and others have made available a number of period fire engines of various makes that can be used with these.  Sometimes seems like a better selection of fire engines than other vehicles.

From the club layout. Compliments to greg773

Mine is the one and only resin kit by Westport Model Works. Les Lewis made one kit and gave up since it was not coming out like he wanted. The pieces were warped and took a lot of bracing to flatten, but the brick work was amazing since Les actually used individual styrene bricks glued to a styrene substrate to make the master. 

Les even provided soldered brass gutters and down spouts, but they needed a lot of rework since they came apart in transit.

There is an interior of sorts and all LED lighting. I did add a brass fire pole. What's a firehouse without a pole. Les also had some resin fire jackets laying around that I was able to use in the lockers. You can't really see inside the building where it's located on the layout.

Here is an HO-scale fire station I built from a Rix Products kit I did for a relative.

Joe Fauty. beautiful piece ! Reminds me of Engine 84's old house. Chicago FD. Located at 62nd and Green street. Reffered to as the castle in the ghetto.

Regards Mike

i use a LEGO one.  It's all packed up at the moment though.

Trainman 5 posted:

Joe Fauty. beautiful piece ! Reminds me of Engine 84's old house. Chicago FD. Located at 62nd and Green street. Reffered to as the castle in the ghetto.

Regards Mike

Mike:

Thanks

Joe

Mine is just a repainted plasticville. Now in a box along with everything else!

John A posted:

DL&W PETE....use the Plasticville Town Hall for the upper (most difficult) half....the bottom is easy....looks like a fun, easy project. I would love to see your results.  John A

I have been trying to get andre to build one of these, sent him a email from his website about a custom build. I have yet to hear back from him. I really don't have the time to kit bash this from different buildings. 

If you get really stuck I may be able to help you out.....John A

My Lionelville Firehouse....

Dave P-- great scene!   Who made the firehouse? It is awesome!   John A

John,

its a Lionel product. I purchased it around 2005. with the push of a button the right side doors open a bell sounds and inside a fire truck lights up with siren sounds. It's pretty cool and I don't see too many around. 

Fire Department about to do controlled burn of Ruby Tuesday (no, not at York)