who makes the longest single engine brick house ?

Lionel made the longest one, but it wasn't that long.  You could put 2 or 3 of them together to do it. 

 

John

The Korber 304 has an extender section. The House is about 28 1/2" inside. The extender  adds  at least another 5". But obviously not a single engine house. The base 304 kit is three stalls, this model has an added (4th) stall and the extender kit.  Roof is custom.

You can probably kit bash 2 Atlas engine houses but there 2 stall. Korber has a Trolley barn kit you might be able to convert to a engine house.

good luck.. been trying to find one for my sunset 3rd rail PRR S1 unskirted duplex.. its 36" long..

The problem you're having is that single stall engine houses were found on small railroad operations.  These railroads would own smaller locomotives, not the giants you're trying to house.

 

The PRR had to custom-lengthen one stall of the Crestline roundhouse to fit what the railroad called "the big engine" (the S1).  A track led directly into this stall from the rear and did not cross the turntable since the S1 was far too long for the table.  It was turned on a wye where apparently it fairly frequently derailed.

I just bought a 36" house big enough for a Bg Boy from David Duhamel of Crescent Locomotive Works. It is two stalls BUT, it is the best value of any structure built anywhere by anyone. Period. Full interior detail. Lit. Arrives built. For less than $200. Why people are not beating a path to his door is the mystery of the century.

 

Scrappy

As suggested above, I am right now in the process of converting one of the Korber

trolley barns into a three stall engine house.  But, it will be 22" long...each of the

four wall panels in the kit are 11".  You would need two kits and use two wall

panels from the second kit to get storage 33" long.  You also would need to do some modeling/kitbashing...

To include a Russian Decapod, a Williams 4-6-0. and a gas electric, I am having

to widen the building an inch on each side, and raise it on a "stone" foundation

another inch all the way around.  Your loco may be slightly taller than either of these. This to include these engines and track.  Perhaps only one of your stalls would have to be widened, and the other two stalls could be used for car shops (or, as I am widening, you might narrow, the building).

I took a really well built scratch built On30 engine shed and had Alex Mallie build an extension on the back to fit my 0-8-0 switcher in it, you could do the same for the lionel version.  When I get a chance I can post some photos of mine.

We have had several people use the Trolley barn, and the 2 stall Diesel shed as an engine house.  Both can be easily lengthened.

 

Let me know if we can help.

The Atlas O Engine House kit is 27" long and two of them can be kit bashed into a long two stall.

Model train stuff sells them at a discount price.

http://www.modeltrainstuff.com...it-p/ato-2009001.htm

Hornby's O Gauge #2 lithographed engine shed is a wonderful addition to a toy train layout, but model railway enthusiasts will probably not want it.  One shed is 18 inches long and if you want to invest in multiples, you can accomodate virtually anything.

They are very pricey in super condition, but if condition isn't critical they can be obtained for a reasonable cost.  Unfortunately shipping costs will be considerable as it

has to be shipped fully assembled.  I'm attaching  photos of the shed on my Hornby, Lionel, MTH layout.

 

Lew Schneider

Here's one and a half Lionel engine houses kitbashed together. Inside dimension is about 29" so it's long enough for a Lionel Mallet. Should be large enough for just about all non-articulated engines. Not long enough for Alleghenys, Big Boys, and such.

 

 

 

 

Ken

I think two of the Lionel maintenance sheds are the way to go. I have two. Also 3 Lionel engine sheds, the Atlas Diesel 2 stall, roundhouse and the MTH single stall. Better details. Weathers nice. Bricks more scale. Gutters, slate roof and small shop/0ffice. With two you could get a larger machine shop. It also has extra parts because it was easier to have a few extra parts than make another mold. Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to post photos from phone. FMH

hello Gene H...........

 

The Atlas O scale engine house may work as i like your idea of buying 2 and put them together.  I never kit bash before so this may be the first one so how do you cut it square and clean for the joins to fit well together ?

 

the woman who loves the S.F.#5021

Tiffany

No need to because you just continue adding brick wall panels. Only the end columns are different. They are mitered to return with an identical piece for the end walls. You may need to cutaway set of the roof sections if you want to add an odd number of wall panels. Easily done with a small table saw, find tooth band saw, scroll saw, or score with a knife and snap. ( not recommended on your first go around). I found the Atlas kit a bit flimsy. I actually have either the older Heljan or IHC version with four smokestacks. They only kit that half way through I gave up on using Weld-on one the panels were glued and switched to hot glue and put fillets in corner joints. You could also use balsa stiffeners. The older 1990's Lionel stuff was more robust opaque plastic that you can illuminate without blackening the inside to avoid the Jack o lantern effect. After measuring you might need three of the maintenance sheds because the are only 15" long. Lionel single is 21". Mth single is 24". Built up only but taller than Lionel with detailed interior. atlas Dual is 27". FMH FMH.

Give me his number.. Id aways thought the Bigboy was the largest steam engine until I looked at the S1 140 feet bigboy 132 feet...To bad PRR didnt articulated the S1 and took the weight off the trucks so it would get more traction.. couldve been a very successful steam engine..

Thanks for the tip I didn't know about this guy. His website doesn't have pictures of his sheds yet. Once he does I'm sure he may get more business. A lot of times Google image searches get better results for train stuff. He does not come up with a two stall engine shed text search. Can you post a photo of yours. Thanks FMH

Variations of the Atlas/IMC/Heljan two stall shed

Lionel variations

Lionel Maintenance shed

Here is a Roof that has been dressed up a bit on a Troly Barn/Engine house

Nice copper verde.