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Model Foundry Limited Edition kit of the RGS Tennessee Pass Depot. Released several years ago (1992) from a company who only made a couple of O scale kits. Kit has some lower walls of hydrocal while most of the wall use an innovative system of cardstock covered with wood spaces then individual boards for the board and batten siding. This build will have an interior added to the waiting room and the telegraph office both of which will be lighted. Missing from the kit were the shingles so they will be replaced with individual wood shingles cut from 1x8's
That's a good looking depot in the photo on the instructions. Of course we all know that your version will far surpass that one, can't wait to see get this one under way.
Began building some of the wall sections today, as you can see from the first photo the system used to construct these is pretty unique. In the other photo the a pair of test walls have been stained weathered wood and are now ready for painting.
Base was cut and painted today, passenger platform built and installed and the first gound floor flooring installed. The front wall is temporally inplace to to keep the seperation between the two as they dried.
Painted the brick walls and some of the wood walls. Worked on the windows/doors with clean up, they are older style white metal castings with pleanty of flash. But there is real glass (microscope slide covers) for the windows which should be very nice. The window opening on the first floor is a ticket window while the operators station is on the second floor along with the waiting wood. And yes that is the way the prototype station was laid out too.
I've seen photos of that Tennessee Pass depot, and I always thought it was a rather remarkable, unique building, especially in that spectacular setting. I'm really looking forward to both your construction process and the finished product. The kit just seems fascinating.
Starte assembly on the first floor. First built the basic walls for the ticket office. That is the wall paper that was furnished with the kit. These interior walls were assembled, then the first floor exterior wall finished out with the ticket window (note the arches cut into the glass on the lower panes. The lower floor front wall was then installed on the base. To this the ticket office assembly was added.
Sorry for the delay in posting on this, first the Easter holiday, followed by an illness, then last Thursday night we had a tornado skim over the house and take parts of the roof off. The first photo shows my workroom with it new blue tarp roof. No damage in the workroom area, the display layout at the right end did have some minor water damage but thankfully only on an area of bare benchwork.
The ticket office now has its interior, scratchbuilt desk, with other details from Berkshire Valley. Station agent was seated at the desk ready to issue another ticket.
Sorry about the tornado damage...we had a lot of that in Prattville. At least you and the family are OK and it sounds like no major damage was done to all your hard work. That station agent's desk looks fantastic.
The depot was completed on May 11th of last year and delivered to the client, it is installed on his layout and was even shown when his layout was featured in Light Iron Digest a couple of issues back.
The photos that I am uploading were taken right before delivery, the first 5 were taken outside in natural light while the last three were in the shop under artificial.
I have more construction photos but not a complete set as the 10 year old camera gave up the ghost while this piece was being constructed and had to be replaced.
This was one of the more difficult kits that I have built, it would have been easier I think to build from scratch with the way the walls were assembled. I did replace all of the roof sheets with Evergreen plastic and the paper shingles with hand laid individual wood shingles.
Came out beautiful, Matt, but better you than me. It does look like a bear to assemble with all those angles. I forgot about the tornado until I saw this thread again. I assume your roof is no longer blue.
At least you and the family are OK and it sounds like no major damage was done to all your hard work. That station agent's desk looks fantastic.