I needed a two story brick station for the junction town of Tyrone on my railroad. While not based on the prototype's architecture, I chose MTH's 2 story brick structure as a starting point. I liked the size of the MTH building but didn't care for the very heavy window treatment. With considerable cutting and fitting I replace the snap in MTH windows and doors with the nearest sized Grandt Line products. Thirty four windows and 5 doors later the project is almost done. Down the line on the To Do List is to scratch build a closed passenger waiting shelter for the island platform more representative of the one on the Tyrone curve circa 1952.
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as the double hung Grandt Line windows require separate upper and lower glazing. The MTH station's bay area didn't look right to me without windows on the angled walls - so I cut the angled sides of the bay to accept a pair of 3706 windows. For the baggage door I used a Grandt Line 3618 freight door. With a simulated poured concrete curved station (poured plaster) location platform site I couldn't use MTH's plastic "wood" platform. I also decided to lower the building relative to the station platform so that there would only be a single step up. (the MTH design had 2 tall steps at each door). I cut off the steps that were molded integral with the walls, and then carefully cut down the walls by scribing along a mortar line. Later I added floors, interior walls, and lit several of the first floor rooms with surface mount LED's. The building's brick walls were sprayed with Rustolium Oxide Red Primer and then I applied Robert's Brick Mortar Formula. The brick and mortar was toned down by brushing on a light coat of Vallejo's 76.514 dark brown wash. Needless to say there was a lot of filing and fitting throughout the project.
